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Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.

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web.stanford.edu

The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech is already charting these new urban landscapes and frontiers. Sampling sewage for COVID-19 virus was a key source of data that helped anticipate outbreaks in many cities, weeks before clinical tests revealed a new spike. And biomedical researchers are sequencing the microbiomes within urban transit systems in dozens of cities to compare notes on local fauna.

Forecast: Wild & Well | the Future of Urban Tech

futureofurbantech.org

If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a manager who doesn't value *the work* needed to fix it. They *might* value it being fixed, but of course no sane employee gives a shit about *that*. A sane employee cares whether *they* are valued.

People Can Read Their Manager's Mind

yosefk.com

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