Homelessness in the US felt overwhelming. Here's why: Melbourne Metro (Australia) km²: 9,992 Pop: 5m Unsheltered homeless: 798 NYC km²: 783 Pop: 8.3m Unsheltered: 2.4k San Francisco km²: 121 Pop: 870k Unsheltered: 4.5k LA County km²: 12,310 Population: 10m Unsheltered: 48k

A record 10 women in cabinet: Australia’s newly sworn-in government is an important step forward for the representation of every woman in the country. The blokes haven’t been doing a particularly bang up job, so this should be something that everyone should be excited about.

“Statistics programming is written in R, Machine Learning is written in Python, AI is written in PowerPoint.”

If the metaverse is “won” by one company, instead of being numerous and/or decentralised and/or open, it's becoming increasingly clear that we end up somewhere like this...

The sensible null hypotheses that every product designer should adopt as to ensure they create easy-to-use, memorable experiences: users will skip onboarding tutorials, won't read UI copy, will bail out instead of contact support, and will forget about your product when they do.

Shilda winery in Kakheti, Georgia, might just be the most awesome anywhere. More than just aesthetics, the thermal mass of the soil is used to optimise the cooling of the building; most of the facade is facing towards the north to avoid direct solar gain, reducing energy waste.

Remember Clubhouse?

- Avg first-home deposit is now $120,000 (~1.6x median annual salary). - In 1970 it was ~0.4x of salary. - Median individual savings is less than $5,000. - The barrier to property is less serviceability, more attainability: the hefty deposit sum compared to earnings/savings.

What a time to be alive.

Go home CoinDesk, you’re drunk.

As a frontier social movement, we're supposed to be trying to execute on visions like this, not just repeating unimaginative 20th century crap except with ourselves at the top.

A simple way to frame early stage vs. later stage… Early: a bet on market fit. High risk; binary “will it work in any way, or will it not work at all”. Later: a bet on execution. Lower risk; non-binary “it’s working - how much better can it be made to work in future.”

If you're not uncomfortable about the launch of your product, you've launched too late.

It seems that a disingenuous cohort of Americans like to blame mass shootings on mental health instead of guns, yet simultaneously aren’t interested understanding the systemic causes of it, or improving it, in their country?

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.

Oof: NFT trading volumes…

👏 After many years of effort, #Ethereum goes PoS (proof of stake) at ~2pm today. This means the second biggest crypto on the planet silences environmental concerns, reducing energy consumption by an estimated ~99.5% compared to the old PoW (proof of work) consensus algorithm.

Just stumbled onto this gem. Maximum PC magazine, 2008. Power user mental models for what’s important are often the worst ones for predicting the future.