What A Lot Of Things: Tech talk from a human perspective

Links Team Guide to Testability Publishers Page The Great Post Office Scandal Publishers Page   Scandal at the Post Office Panorama BBC TV Episode The Great Post Office Trial BBC Radio 4 Serial The Great Post Office Scandal Author Nick Wallis 39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike We...

Links Bugs in our Pockets: The risks of client-side scanning What A Lot of Things on Amazon Alexa Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Metaverse and How We'll Build It Together , at Facebook Connect 2021 An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse , by Stratechery A $10 Million Investment In SecondLife from IBM is the Latest Push to Build V-Business from November 2006 IBM CEO Sam Palmisano...

WARNING: We talk about Apple's proposed measures to limit the spread of child sexual abuse material on its platform. Episode Links Are 64% of Features Really Rarely or Never Used? What's in a name: Experimenting with Testing Job Titles What A Lot Of Things Episode Three – Four day work week and Design Thinking Google Ventures Paper Prototyping video Be More Pirate Joy Inc. by Richard Sheridan foun...

Links The Mists Of Time clip from Episode 5 Ian’s Other Podcast Ash’s Twitter Nemesis - @ashwinter Ben Horowitz, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Ben's book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ian’s book highlights from The Hard Thing About Hard Things The Guardian: Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, who took a $1m salary cut to pay his workers a minimum wave of $70k Manager Tools podcast State of De...

Links: Some actual beard ASMR . “ I’ve sold Agile to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook ” on slide 15 of Jon McNestrie’s talk at Lean Agile Brighton 2019 . Ian’s Agile Octopus Timing Alexa Skill. git rebase . Twitter to clear out inactive accounts and free up usernames . The Other Ash Winter’s Twitter Account . Ian’s three-letter Twitter handle . The Digital Legacy Association . The Unicorn...

Links: * Amazon Developer Services * Alexa Skills Kit * Agile Octopus * AWS Lambda Layers * Ian's Alexa Skill Source Code * Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time * Leeds Tech Bubble Divisions * Even Techies are Sick of Inequality in San Francisco * Code Club * Empowering Women with Tech * Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds Full Theme

Links: Steamed Hams   Trial of Four Day Work Week at Microsoft Japan  Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman On the Phenomenon of BS Jobs   Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing Don Norman: Rethinking Design Thinking Natasha Jen: Design Thinking is BS IBM Design Thinking Intro Course d School Design Thinking Process IBM Design Thinking Loop Agile inception deck

Links: Scottish Voice Recognition Elevator Ian’s Machine Learning/Data Science links Deep Learning Specialization | Coursera Applied Data Science with Python | Coursera Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster Team Topologies Conway’s Law DevOps Topologies

Ash and Ian talk about collective bargaining in tech, and “cargo culting”. Links Collective bargaining: Business Insider - Here's the memo Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent to employees on the changes to Google's sexual-harassment policy after the walkout.   Whole Foods employees demand Amazon break all ties with ICE and Palantir All workers need unions – including those in Silicon Valley Maslow's Hie...