If there is one industry ripe for disruption it's car rentals. Horribly overpriced, bad service, 1000 upsells and hidden charges.

I'll post more vacation pics soon, but here is one from the flight back to Helsinki: the BA Concorde hidden away at Heathrow. In 1996, Concorde did NYC-London in a record 2 hours 53 mins. 25 years later, the same flight takes 7 hours.

The best predictor of a British PM resigning: winning a confidence vote.

The quintessential Finnish scene isn't boats and archipelago, it's an implausibly straight road, a moose warning sign, and trees as far as the eye can see.

Sundays are underappreciated. Pottering about at home, a walk in a national park, podcasts, some reading. Low on stress, high on life.

Electronics were just better in the 80s. walkman-archive.com/wa/project/son…

Extremely few products are built to last, work as intended, and turn a tedious task into something pleasurable. The coffee grinder by Niche Coffee is one such product.

Dev makes a JIRA ticket: "change db replication count" PO says make every ticket into a descriptive story Dev makes a JIRA ticket: "as a user I want to change db replication count"

Excellent paper on possibly the largest online ML deployment in the world.

Shocking news. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Precisely this. My whole career has been based on being interested in the details, and chances are if you have a passion, others will share that passion.

Congratulations to Explosion! Always been a fan of their products. explosion.ai/blog/weve-sold…

This is a friendly reminder that many of the most serious early-stage companies aren't at confs like Slush. They are busy working.

Reading up on the places in London black cabs are restricted from accessing. Ridiculous. Every time I visit, I take a black cab – it's safe, reliable, and drivers spent more time studying than I did doing my master's degree. They should be allowed on every road and junction.

This is the business equivalent of threatening to beat up kids unless they hand over their lunch money.

A little bird told me that version II of the original machine generated whisky recipe is now in stock. mackmyra.com/products/intel…

You know it's a bad blizzard when Helsinki airport says there may be slight delays in departures.

Props once again to Analogue for making a beautiful product in the Pocket. Very refreshing in the age of shoddy build quality and endless digital subscriptions.

Here's my nomination for House Speaker.

Another excellent book by John Rogers. Highly recommended, even if you live in Finland.