How pointy shoes created a moral panic in medieval London - It’s good to remember that hundreds of years later, and prohibition against fashion makes the probities look like idiots with too much time on their hands. // Also, Dutch businessmen don’t seem to have stopped wearing them.
Best Prompt for Academic Papers Summary/Analysis - “Explain this paper to me using the Feynman technique, considering yourself as the author”
Daily Links, Jan 21st 2025 | Fintan Ryan’s Semi Regular Updates - New daily links blog from Fintan, subscribe to the RSS.
2025-01-21 - “I do not have a solution for any of this stuff, and I despair as much as the next sane human being, but one thing has become clearer and clearer since 2016; social media, like Monty Python’s Camelot, is a silly place."
What CIOs should know as DORA regulations kick in - All the great -ility’s. // “The business continuity standards laid out in the EU’s DORA require banks, insurers, securities exchanges, trading venues and other financial services providers to maintain backup systems for swift incident recovery. The EU expects impacted parties to be able to restore critical functions within two hours of an outage incident, per DORA."
Google Workspace business getting full Gemini, price increase - Instead of charging $20 to 30 extra a month of AI, give it to everyone and raise everyone’s price by $2. // Teams pricing going up similarly.
Brainwash An Executive Today! - (1) What it’s like to market to technical people. (2) He doesn’t like LinkedIn. (3) he discovers enterprise event marketing.
Understanding Private Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, Multi-Cloud, and Distributed Cloud: A Comprehensive Framework - Classify cloud based on how much control you have and much mixing of other clouds you have. As opposed to where the cloud is. Also, a little bit about NetApp ONTP.
Repository of Incompletely Systematised Campaign Types - Types of sandbox games.