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  • Notable among them is the Greek god Zeus, who is sometimes called Zeus Xenios in his role as a protector of strangers. This normalized theoxeny or theoxenia, wherein human beings demonstrate their virtue by extending hospitality to a humble stranger (xenos), who turns out to be a disguised deity (theos).[5
    Xenia_(Greek)
  • Xenia (Ancient Greek: ξενία [kse'ni.a]) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'.[1] It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity.[
    Xenia_(Greek)
  • The story starts in 1974 with the protagonist, Gregory Burgess, enrolled at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
    The Adolescence of P-1
  • I built an eval harness. 27 reference parts across three difficulty tiers. A layered grader that compares the agent's output STEP against a ground-truth STEP on six geometric axes: volume, bounding box, topology signature, Boolean intersection-over-union, Chamfer distance between surfaces, all composited into a single score in [0, 1].
    Teaching Claude CAD skills. Onshape MCP and visual reasoning tools — Reshef Elisha
  • Tom West practices the "Mushroom Theory of Management" – "keeping them in the dark, feeding them shit, and watch them grow." That is, isolating the design team from outside influences and, instead, using the fear of the unknown to motivate the team.
    The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
  • tly decided to forfeit to China. Drones use lithium-ion batteries and rare earth electric motors, both of which are almost entirely manufactured in China.
    All non-drone militaries are obsolete
  • Last year, Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world. China can produce 4 billion of these FPV drones…
    All non-drone militaries are obsolete
  • An Apple Watch was a bridge from childhood to adulthood. A phone would be a portal.
    The Life and Times of an American Tween | The New Yorker
  • He also established the Ming De School for girls with himself as principal.[12]
    Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Wu also used her findings in radioactive uranium separation to build the standard model for producing enriched uranium to fuel the atomic bombs at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee facility as well as build innovative Geiger counters.[56] Like many involved physicists in their later years, Wu later distanced herself from the Manhattan Project due to its destructive outcome and recommended to the Taiwanese president Chiang Kai-shek in 1962 to never build nuclear weapons. However, she was pleased to know that her family was safe in China.[57][58] Years later, Wu in a rare occasion opened up on her involv…
    Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Self actualization is where we want all our kids to reach (or at least “become a strong enough reader that they enjoy reading books and will do it for pleasure”). The question is how to get there. Ericsson has mapped out that path: Start with adult-generated incentives Surround the children with peers who will raise their status for being “learners” Hope at some point they self-actualize
    Your Review: Alpha School - by Scott Alexander
  • Tompkins headed off on a six-month road-adventure trip from California to Patagonia,
    Douglas Tompkins
  • Tompkins borrowed $5,000 from a bank to found The North Face, Inc., in San Francisco
    Douglas Tompkins
  • In 1993, Tompkins retired from Patagonia and married Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face clothing company and co-founder of Esprit.
    Kris Tompkins
  • most notably his concept of "dromology", the all-around, pervasive inscription of speed in every aspect of life.
    Paul Virilio
  • The plutonium for India's first nuclear detonation, Operation Smiling Buddha in 1974, was produced in a CIRUS reactor supplied by Canada and partially paid for by the Canadian government using heavy water supplied by the United States.[
    CANDU reactor
  • The other point is that it's important to make prototyping new ideas, especially bad ideas, as fast and easy as possible.
    Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code
  • a bit dry, guarded, and boring. I guess I was wrong. She's fierce.
    What Founders Can Learn About Excellence From MIT President Sally Kornbluth - YouTube
  • China is always on her mind. She was so passionate and excited whenever "China" and "democracy" were referred to, as democracy meant so much in the 1940s. She is preparing to return and contribute to the rebuilding of China. Her plans changed when the Second World War began
    Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Wu and Dong Ruo-Fen arrived in San Francisc
    Chien-Shiung Wu
  • It was a time of huge transition for Junqueira, who at the time was heavily pregnant with her first child. By the time her daughter Alice was born, the pressure had ramped up as the Series A round drew to a close with Junqueira even signing deals from her hospital bed within hours of the delivery.
    Nubank's Cristina Junqueira and Brazil’s Banking Revolution | FinTech Magazine
  • The Obama administration pulled the plug on the government-run program and the Shuttle flew its final flight in June 2011. Despite the program’s budget overruns and abject dangers, the Shuttle’s final mission was an emotional moment for the nation, NASA’s rank-and-file, space buffs, and astronauts alike. After that, Washington paid Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, to take its crews to the space station aboard Soyuz rockets.
    The Space Economy - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
  • alifornia law provides an income exclusion for settlement payments received by an eligible individual, defined as a person persecuted by the Regime that was in control of the Ottoman Turkish Empire from 1915 until 1923, or the individual’s heirs or estate. Enter on Schedule CA (540 or 540NR), line 21f, column B, the settlement payments amount reported in federal inco
    California: Ottoman Turkish Empire Income Exclusion Somehow Persists in Existing
  • “I’m obsessed with helping friends hire nannies. It’s one of the most fraught, high-potential, high-leverage, variances out there,”
    Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer - Colossus
  • o intervene that aggressively would be to meddle with the formative energy that the Swiss-based theorist Peter Koenig calls source. Duncan considers this delicate concept highly useful.
    Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer - Colossus
  • This is a mistake: the chick is still developing the strength required to survive outside the egg, and the surest sign that it is ready is when it destroys the shell on its own.
    Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer - Colossus
  • “At any one time, there are only 100 people in the world whose map of reality on a complex subject—AI, global politics, interest-rate policy—is extremely accurate,” Duncan says. These individuals see the field clearly because of where they sit, but also because the field itself fascinates and absorbs them. This passion, Duncan explains, causes them to compete with the “joy of the tennis player who wins because he likes hitting the ball more than the other guy.”
    Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer - Colossus
  • read once that people are like musical instruments. And the range of notes they can play is dependent on the range of tensions that they’ve learned to hold. And I like that because it acknowledges that everybody – whatever they’re playing right now, there are actually other notes they can play in a different context.
    The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Graham Duncan (#362) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
  • “absolute return”-oriented: they define success in terms of what they believe they can achieve over decades, not relative to what others are achieving at a given moment.
    The Playing Field - Graham Duncan Blog
  • One of the greatest gifts we have for each other, for our children and spouses, for our teammates, is the positive feedback loop we can put someone into purely by believing in them, by seeing their genius and their dysfunction clearly and then helping them construct conditions for the former to flourish.
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • meeting the Ocean’s 11 crew together at once, wrapped up in one human envelope—we each have distinct parts, and we tell a story to ourselves and the world that they are a coherent whole
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • In every moment, it is clear to you that your friend is staring directly through the image of her face without seeing it.
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • The poet David Whyte describes the unfolding of life and career as a “conversation with reality”: Whatever a human being desires for themselves will not come about exactly as they first imagined it or first laid it out in their minds…what always happens is the meeting between what you desire from your world and what the world desires of you. It’s this frontier where you overhear yourself and you overhear the world. And that frontier is the only place where things are real…in which you just try to keep an integrity and groundedness while keeping your eyes and your voice dedicated toward the hor…
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • Seeing people clearly—or at least more clearly—matters not just when finding the “best” hire, but in identifying the best role for them.
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • electing for the most talented players gives an organization even more leverage than in the past.
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • ow close to that 10 can you get when you’re first getting to know someone and deciding whether they are a fit for your team?
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • When I try to figure out what game I’m playing, I see that for the last 25 years I have been playing a game of strategy applied to people, a game where over and over I try to answer the question “what’s going on here, with this human?” In this essay, I make recommendations about candidate selection based on thousands of assessments I have made and my somewhat obsessive interest in the topic.
    What's going on here, with this human? - Graham Duncan Blog
  • a reputation as a doer, a driver, and a stickler for duty
    Leslie Groves
  • Natural gas infrastructure: the midstream pivot nobody expected
    There Is No Power - by Strategist and Architect - TSCS
  • Constellation Energy, Vistra, NRG Energy, and Talen Energy, are leveraged to the supply-demand imbalance in a fundamentally different way than regulated utilities. Where regulated utilities earn a return on capital deployed, merchant generators earn market-clearing prices for electricity and capacity. In a deficit environment, those prices rise, and existing generation assets that are already built, permitted, and interconnected become dramatically more valuable because new supply cannot enter fast enough to compete them away.
    There Is No Power - by Strategist and Architect - TSCS
  • The New Joule Order”: the post-2010 investment boom made renewables cost-competitive but failed to resolve system bottlenecks, producing malinvestment and grid congestion instead. The deficit is, in part, the bill coming due for a decade of optimising the wrong variable, levelised cost of energy over return on deployed capital.
    There Is No Power - by Strategist and Architect - TSCS
  • Robert Gaskins, who invented PowerPoint after leaving BNR,
    Bell-Northern Research
  • he whys of two-pizza teams Small teams have minimized bureaucracy and maximized time to focus on innovating for customers, which in turn raises employee satisfaction. Mitigates the Ringelmann Effect (the tendency for individual productivity to decrease in larger groups).
    Amazon's Two Pizza Teams | AWS Executive Insights
  • In practice, however, approximately 12,000 substantive environmental reviews are conducted annually.7 This is because NEPA-implementing regulations have made formal environmental assessments (EAs) a prerequisite to an agency making a finding of no significant impact (known as a FONSI).8 The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) appears to have imposed this requirement without discussion or elaboration in its original 1978 NEPA-implementing regulations.9 In interpreting the CEQ regulations, the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia held in Sierra Club v. Watkins (1991) that an EA…
    Bringing NEPA Back to Basics - The CGO
  • 1945, M.A. Miner published a seminal paper titled "Cumulative Damage in Fatigue" in an ASME journal. A main application for reliability engineering in the military was for the vacuum tube as used in radar systems and other electronics,
    Reliability engineering
  • development of reliability engineering
    Reliability engineering
  • Before World War II the term was linked mostly to repeatability; a test (in any type of science) was considered "reliable" if the same results would be obtained repeatedly.
    Reliability engineering
  • environmental studies and psychology from the University of Waterloo
    Kevin O'Leary
  • Alma mater University of Waterloo (BES) University of Western Ontario (MBA)
    Kevin O'Leary
  • Bloom traces its roots to the work of KR Sridhar who created a technology to convert Martian atmospheric gases to oxygen for propulsion and life support, using a solid oxide fuel cell electrolyzer (SOEC),[7] while director of the Space Technologies Laboratory at the University of Arizona.[8] Sridhar and his team built an electrochemical cell for NASA that is capable of producing air and fuel from electricity generated by a solar panel.[9]
    Bloom Energy