Join me as I dive into this week’s intriguing reads! From confronting the fleeting nature of our lives in “Four Thousand Weeks,” to exploring the tumultuous landscape of media with Neil Thackray, and stepping into the world of AI with an eye on machine learning’s billion-dollar opportunity. Plus, a touch of whimsy with cocktail recipes and a peek into Stephen and Evie Colbert’s kitchen escapades. Let’s unravel the wisdom, innovation, and culinary delights these pieces offer.

• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals: #promo The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.
• Neil Thackray: Mainstream publishing’s missteps and failure, and what it can learn from specialist media: The media industry around the world is facing a perfect storm of awful circumstances. Layoffs, closures, stock market price falls. What caused it?
• Mixel | Cocktail Recipes App: Cocktail recipes app. Available for iOS and Android. A delightful reference for home bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts. Including mixed drinks, parties, whiskey, gin, martini, margarita, old fashioned, and more.
• Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning: A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it’s worth so much
• The importance of teamwork (as proven by science): What an organization ships externally is a reflection of how it communicates internally. See how this museum puts Conway’s Law to the test.
• Service Jobs Now Require Bizarre Personality Test From AI Company: Paradox.ai, which is used by some of the biggest employers in the country, requires applicants to respond to dozens of confusing slides featuring a blue alien named Ash.
• Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves: #promo Stephen and Evie Colbert invite you to pull up a chair as they share their favorite recipes from family and friends and offer a glimpse of food and fun in their South Carolina home.
• Make Your Bookshelf Clickable: We’ll confess that we have a fondness for real books and plenty of them. So does [James], and he decided he needed a way to take a picture of his bookshelves and make each book clickable to f…
• Three terms sure to grab attention: Russia, nuclear, anti-satellite weapon: Intel circulating on Capitol Hill has to do with new Russian threat in space.
• freenginx.org: The freenginx.org project. The goal of the project is to keep nginx development free from arbitrary corporate actions.
• Ever wondered what chefs eat on their night off?: Surprisingly simple fare, it turns out: eggs, noodles and pasta prepared with simple, quick-cook sauces feature heavily …