#Unexpected

Okay resilience engineering micro blogging timeIf you watch @MarisaGrayson's @REdeployConf talk, my fav part is a slide about halfway through with four categories of tactics for managing overload. I remember
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Ready?Incoming rant, but serious .https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/havana-syndrome-likely-caused-microwave-energy-government-study-finds-n1250094It really and truly was high-intensity, aimed, microwave radiation that caused “Havana Syndro
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The Biden administration can help keep the bike boom going, even after the pandemic ends. That would help reduce pollution and improve health nationwide.I wrote a new policy proposal for
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As we (finally!) move on from 2020, I hope it doesn't get lost to history how profoundly this pandemic has affected even those who never got sick. I hope we
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The play Assemblywomen by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes (446 – 386 BC) is a fascinating - and surprisingly vulgar - comedy that recounts what happens when women take over the
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A longish THREAD on Soviet anti-Zionism & some of its echoes today. As a note, I lived the first 19 years of my life in the USSR & so have
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QPR changed my life. If you don’t believe me, please read this thread. It’s self-referential but I can’t help it, because this wonderful football story had me in the spotlight.
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Inspired by @NatashaRandall's efforts: a thread for books coming out on 3rd Sept so that #bookbloggers can spread the word (reviews, spotlight posts, release round ups etc.) UK writers, publicists,
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Going to do @threadapalooza on the books of Roam Book Club. 1. RBC been running since July. Completed 2 books so far. Each book has taken about ~6 weeks, RBC
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The utter MOOD of turning around in a Souls game and getting to see that you travelled about 4 milesThis kind of moment is a vibe I want to encourage
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In 1983, a 52-year-old senior executive at Texas Instruments was passed over for the company's top job.He would go on to found and build the most strategically important company in
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I’m not sure if this is the granularity you are expecting. Some of these concepts are bigger than others. I invented exactly none of them. The list is not exhaustive.
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BRITSH ARMY HEADCOUNT REDUCTION (Thread)Looking back at personnel cuts made in 2010, a reduced Army of 82,000 didn’t help Britain regain its financial strength, it simply signified a hollowing-out of
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1st week #distancelearning done. Key takeaways:1. Everything takes 3x longer.2. Tech is not a silver bullet. 3. 1:5 = instructional min. : min. prep4. Kids are more polite than adults
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The beginning: In '15 I asked editors if I cld cover Trump as a convergence of strands w/in U.S. Right. Editors thought he was a joke. But in early '16
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Some thoughts on breaking story that have coalesced for me that you may find helpful. (This will be a long and ongoing thread).1) Work big to small storywise: You're building
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