Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Saying goodbye to Northcote Books
Several years ago I was very lucky to become involved in a local initiative in Clapham, London, to establish a community bookshop. The initiative was a response to the closing…
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Join us on Slack!
Be part of the Citified community! Join our slack workspace and help us get a dialog going about how cities can be better for people and better for the planet.
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What is an urban area?
Almost every article, briefing, lecture or essay on matters of urbanisation seems to make reference to the extent of urbanisation in the world today and the expected urban population globally…
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The other side of sustainable energy governance
A stark reminder this week that there are two sides to the renewable energy revolution: supply and demand. Whilst we in Denmark can be proud of our record on the…
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Beautiful sculpted rooftop by BIG
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
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Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
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The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
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Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
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Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
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Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
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Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.