James Phillips @james@refactorcamp.org
Engineer who's found himself trapped in a particularly boring life script and trying to mastermind his escape.
- jamesphillips.ee@gmail.com
I never actually did an introduction on here, so here goes.
#introduction
Professionally, I've been working in the aerospace industry with antenna tech for the past 7 years - a mix of electrical, RF, mechanical, and software engineering with some organizational politics.
Unprofessionally, I like to read whenever I have a spare braincell. My sisters introduce me to people as a "liberal arts educated engineer." Sometimes it goes over well.
Does anyone here have experience with designing USB devices at the physical layer (PHY - SIE)?
Unlearn you.
Into the Night with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel
"World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel discuss technology, chess, Russian and American politics as well as human rights and prospects for the world economy."
Losses are things that happen in the external world, but losing is a cognitive shift that happens in your mind. It is the shift that leads you to accept the role of loser. A shift that, ideally in the winner’s mind, makes you quit playing the game simply because the rules do not permit you much room for action. To not lose on the other hand, is to expand the playing field, the definition of the game, and begin playing by different rules.
@akhil and after The Outsiders, some others I recommend for a broad intro to finance and investing:
If you're looking for something interesting to watch, Netflix has Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. It's a series of interviews been Bill Moyer and Joseph Campbell from the 80s. Only on the second episode so far, but Campbell is already talking about software as a kind myth.
Also, Ray Dalio has been recommending Campbell's book, Hero with a Thousand Faces.
I'm guessing it's a bad sign when your day job feels like a glorified version of untangling Christmas lights...
Interesting article on the "Intellectual Dark Web" that discusses ideas about public intellectuals, alt-right, etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
I have found that individuals with strong value maps struggle in larger organizations. Many corporate roles don’t deliver customer value—they exist to feed the organizational beast. This is a design feature, not a mistake, but can drive you mad, especially when coupled with the fact that corporate roles overwhelmingly work FOR the organization and only a few work ON the organization. You will be penalized for trying to change things.
Been slowly reading through Simon Wardley's book on Wardley maps. He's publishing chapter by chapter on Medium.
https://medium.com/wardleymaps
Pretty fun/enlightening to draw out the map for your business and see where you fall in it.
I never actually did an introduction on here, so here goes.
#introduction
Professionally, I've been working in the aerospace industry with antenna tech for the past 7 years - a mix of electrical, RF, mechanical, and software engineering with some organizational politics.
Unprofessionally, I like to read whenever I have a spare braincell. My sisters introduce me to people as a "liberal arts educated engineer." Sometimes it goes over well.
For those into classical music, Belshazzar's Feast will be streaming live starting at 8 PM CST, here.
"At what age is it best to crush a child’s dreams so that they have an easier time stepping in to the status quo?"
"You fool. You do not do such things to children. A child is like a poison missile you aim at the Future. You encourage, fund and resource their dreams to the fullest extent of your capability, knowing that your reward will be the pain and misery of generations yet unborn."
-- Warren Ellis
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=8090
Dream(if I had time/money/guts) pet project: A new Cosmos series, but centered around information theory instead of space.
After Ander's presentation on xenogaming at Refactor, I started trying to educate myself about what he was talking about and stumbled across these two pretty good articles...
This one about theory-fiction:
http://arkbooks.dk/the-terrifying-ambivalence-of-theory-fiction/
And this one about accelerationism and CCRU:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in
