In this blog post, I’ve shared some fascinating reads covering a wide range of topics. Learn about the USB-C port and its intricacies, get insights into organizational design principles, check out breakthroughs in Elon Musk’s Neuralink, and unravel Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane mystery. You’ll admire some stunning galactic images from the space and meet a student newspaper in Iowa that’s spreading its wings wider by buying two weeklies. Hop in, there’s something for everyone!
- A Basic USB-C Primer: Over the last five years or so there has been a quiet take-over of the ports on laptops, phones, and other devices, as a variety of older ports as well as the familiar USB A and micro USB sockets have been replaced by the now-ubiquitous USB-C port. It’s a connector which can do so many things, so many in fact that it bears a handy explanation. The Electromagnetic Field 2022 hacker camp has been quietly uploading videos of its talks, and a recent one has [Tyler Ward] explaining the intricacies of the interface.
- TBM 269: Three Organizational Design Principles: I have been thinking a lot about organizational design lately and how it relates to how we collaborate and how managers/leaders collaborate. I have come to understand three principles: Principle #1: Hierarchical Collaboration Parity To be sustainably successful, the level of collaboration and alignment among managers or leaders in an organization must be equal to or greater than the level of collaboration required among their respective front-line team members to complete a task successfully.
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time: The in-human clinical trial marks just one step on Neuralink’s path toward commercialization.
- A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane — and may have found it: Amelia Earhart vanished during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. Tony Romeo believes he’s found the wreckage of the ill-fated flight.
- Three Ways to Help Your Team Embrace the Change to Agile and Scrum: Scrum and agile ways of working help orgs deliver but require change. Discover how to help people to embrace new ideas, rather than resist and fear them.
- Building A Semi-Auto Cookie Dough Gun: Are you a chocolate chip cookie connoisseur? Do you want to eat more cookies than you probably should at the push of a button? Don’t worry, [Startup Chuck] has got you covered with his semi-a…
- Breaking down the complicated dispute over Sports Illustrated and what could happen next: Changing owners, staff cuts, decreased print editions and threats of mass layoffs have left the iconic sports publication very much in jeopardy.
- Read Write Own: A new era: An interview between Chris Dixon about his new book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by web3 with a16z crypto podcast.
- New Galactic Images from the James Webb Space Telescope: A dozen combination views of spiral galaxies captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope
- A student newspaper in Iowa just bought two local weeklies: Student journalists in Iowa will now have more chances to hone their reporting skills while strengthening local news. The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s independent student newspaper, has purchased two weekly local newspapers in the state, per an announcement on Monday. Media company Wood…