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I love this!

Radical candour is a great book for learning about this sort of thing regardless of setting. https://www.radicalcandor.com/

The square mile in London is deserted at the weekend (despite presumably most of the offices having some occupants). I’d say this is more about businesses having to adapt to what p…

Anecdata: I work at a uk startup and quite a lot of our product development has been funded by HMG. It’s worked really well for helping us work through technical challenges and has…

This article is a bit of a non sequitur. I generally agree with the points raised but the real problem is whether documentation is given enough time within the development cycle. I…

Do you have info on how different providers stack up?

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Checklists are useful for breaking a task down and providing incremental steps to progress through. During my PhD I would write down what specific task I was working on in a work j…

Thanks for sharing your routine. I’ve been navigating the realms of long distance running for a few years and I’ve not been able to strike the balance between injury and effort so …

What’s your ultra training plan? Routine sounds great!

Lichess is a superb website which combines online tournaments, game studies and tactics. It is all open source too. A great example of people coming together to create something gr…

I agree. People are people, those in the past didn’t have as much information as we do now but that doesn’t mean they weren’t as sharp. We do see development in ideas over time, bu…

I completely agree. Another heuristic which has helped me in research (and I owe to my supervisor) is to break the problem down to the simplest set of elements which mimic the prob…

This hits so close to home.

Only in the short term. Long term your productivity would be better as you wouldn’t be suffering from health problems.

The entirety of the drive train is huge. You have to turn two propellers which have to propel a ship weighing thousands of tonnes. To produce the necessary torque you need to have …

Oil and gas.

Naval architect here. As other commenters have noted the size of the pumps isn’t really the issue here - you can have as many as you want it really depends on the time you have ava…

We need more abstracts like this in the social sciences.