- Preferential voting | Australian Electoral Commission - AEC’s official explainer for how preferential voting works for both the House of Representatives and Senate
- Australia! It’s time to (metaphorically) kick the duopoly in the nads and elect a minority government | First Dog on the Moon via The Guardian - A reminder that a vote for a non-major party with preferential voting is not a wasted vote
- Technically, Everyone Is “Technical” | Compassionate Coding - Describing people as technical or not technical is not useful because it’s too vague, and it treats someone’s skill set as something fixed rather than something they can develop. When we feel the urge to describe someone as technical or not think about how we came to that conclusion and see if we can identify something more specific
- The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021 | YouTube (1h 40s) - An endeavour to make the worst programming language ever by combining some of the worst aspects of other commonly used programming languages
- Why We Choke | fs.blog - Overthinking a complex task that we should be able to do automatically results in our conscious mind being taken up by the intricacies of that thing, rather than higher-level aspects like tactics. Also see The Centipede’s Dilemma | Wikipedia
- On fear | everything changes - “Sometimes the best response to make when someone admits to being afraid is to say, “I’m afraid of that, too.” And then to sit with that for a moment, to let the connection between you spark and then settle in, to see where it takes you.”