Cyrus Chuang

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Annex: Top 75 services
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
CDDO, GDS, and departments will provide a joined up mobile experience of government services, by agreeing a common mobile app strategy, framework and technical standards, and tracking the availability and rating of mobile services.
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
The Vulnerable People Service, delivered by the Government Digital Service, built the infrastructure to share data across central government, local government and wholesalers in just days, enabling the delivery of over 4.2 million supply packages to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
HM Revenue and Customs is working with a UK start-up to integrate blockchain technology into supply chains to increase efficiency and security.
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
For instance, the National Digital Twin Programme is creating a national ecosystem of connected digital twins including one which models the impact of flooding driven by climate change
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
Previous strategies have lacked specificity, cross-government endorsement, clear lines of accountability and business ownership
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
Previous strategies have lacked specificity, cross-government endorsement, clear lines of accountability and business ownership.
Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data - updated September 2023 - GOV.UK
I read A Little Life when I wasn't ready to talk about trauma or even to hear about it. But Jude's inability to address his wounds compelled me to begin to address mine. His struggle to find his peace emboldened me to try to find mine.
A Little Life is the best novel of the year. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. - Vox
Absent the original perpetrator (Jude's dies, mine disappears), you assume that role. You play both parts — attacker and attacked, punisher and punished — in a twisted drama of substitutionary atonement. You seek but never find absolution for something you didn't do, for something that was done to you. Sin is sin. Someone has to pay, right?
A Little Life is the best novel of the year. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. - Vox
But I think part of the journey of the book is like, ‘No, we’re going to sit with this. And not apologise for it’.”
‘As a culture, we’re scared of the penis’: Happy Valley’s James Norton on baring all in A Little Life
“unless you have a sustainable monopoly position, the customer’s time has to be more important to you than your own.”
Explaining the Law of Conservation of Complexity - Humanist
very application must have an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it.
Explaining the Law of Conservation of Complexity - Humanist
The optimal balance for exploring new things vs exploiting them once found is: 1/3. Spend 1/3 of your time on exploring and 2/3 time on deepening. It is harder to devote time to exploring as you age because it seems unproductive, but aim for 1/3.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• To rapidly reveal the true character of a person you just met, move them onto an abysmally slow internet connection. Observe.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• It’s possible that a not-so smart person, who can communicate well, can do much better than a super smart person who can’t communicate well. That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• The only productive way to answer “what should I do now?” is to first tackle the question of “who should I become?
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• What you actually pay for something is at least twice the listed price because of the energy, time, money needed to set it up, learn, maintain, repair, and dispose of at the end. Not all prices appear on labels. Actual costs are 2x listed prices.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Your best job will be one that you were unqualified for because it stretches you. In fact only apply to jobs you are unqualified for.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Thank a teacher who changed your life.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• Ask anyone you admire: Their lucky breaks happened on a detour from their main goal. So embrace detours. Life is not a straight line for anyone.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• Three things you need: The ability to not give up something till it works, the ability to give up something that does not work, and the trust in other people to help you distinguish between the two.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• The consistency of your endeavors (exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• Your growth as a conscious being is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• The biggest lie we tell ourselves is “I dont need to write this down because I will remember it.”
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• If winning becomes too important in a game, change the rules to make it more fun. Changing rules can become the new game.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
• Ask funders for money, and they’ll give you advice; but ask for advice and they’ll give you money.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Life lessons will be presented to you in the order they are needed. Everything you need to master the lesson is within you. Once you have truly learned a lesson, you will be presented with the next one. If you are alive, that means you still have lessons to learn.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers.
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic
The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
He saw that the animal did not look at him accusingly, didn’t do a Disney double take.
An Animal’s Place
What this suggests to me is that people who care should be working not for animal rights but animal welfare
An Animal’s Place
what’s wrong with animal agriculture–with eating animals–is the practice, not the principle.
An Animal’s Place
Whether or not this is a good idea, we should at least acknowledge that our desire to eat meat is not a trivial matter, no mere “gastronomic preference.
An Animal’s Place
Granting rights to animals may lift us up from the brutal world of predation, but it will entail the sacrifice of part of our identity–our own animality.
An Animal’s Place
then eating animals may sometimes be the most ethical thing to do.
An Animal’s Place
Indeed, it is doubtful that you can build a more sustainable agriculture without animals to cycle nutrients and support local food production
An Animal’s Place
Steve Davis, an animal scientist at Oregon State University, has estimated that if America were to adopt a strictly vegetarian diet, the total number of animals killed every year would actually increase, as animal pasture gave way to row crops. Davis contends that if our goal is to kill as few animals as possible, then people should eat the largest possible animal that can live on the least intensively cultivated land: grass-fed beef for everybody. It would appear that killing animals is unavoidable no matter what we choose to eat.
An Animal’s Place
o contemplate such questions from the vantage of a farm is to appreciate just how parochial and urban an ideology animals rights really is. It could thrive only in a world where people have lost contact with the natural world,
An Animal’s Place
The animal rights movement’s exclusive concern with individual animals makes perfect sense given its roots in a culture of liberal individualism, but does it make any sense in nature?
An Animal’s Place
Hard as the wolf may be on the deer he eats, the herd depends on him for its well-being; without predators to cull the herd, deer overrun their habitat and starve. In many places, human hunters have taken over the predator’s ecological role.
An Animal’s Place
or brief as it is, the life expectancy of a farm animal would be considerably briefer in the world beyond the pasture fence or chicken coop.
An Animal’s Place
the life of freedom is to be preferred” betrays an ignorance about chicken preferences–which on this farm are heavily focused on not getting their heads bitten off by weasels
An Animal’s Place
volution tends to edit out unneeded traits
An Animal’s Place
the animals provided the humans their milk and eggs and–yes–their flesh
An Animal’s Place
Domestication is an evolutionary, rather than a political, development.
An Animal’s Place
For any animal, happiness seems to consist in the opportunity to express its creaturely character–its essential pigness or wolfness or chickenness. A
An Animal’s Place
“People excluded from public housing because of criminal records,” “Mobility for older adults with physical disabilities or cognitive impairments,” and “Total number of local and state police departments using stingray phone trackers (IMSI-catchers).
1. The Power Chapter · Data Feminism
By compiling a list of the datasets that are missing from our “otherwise data-saturated” world, Onuoha explains, “we find cultural and colloquial hints of what is deemed important”
1. The Power Chapter · Data Feminism