TOPIC: Triangles Everywhere!
This week, Dan and Merlin shuck and/or jive about stealing, Publix, airlines, driver’s ed, douchebagerié, Twitter bots, and more.
Main topic this week is a question from Listener Brian about project management. Merlin expounds at length at this dark art and what it can teach us about life.
Links for this episode:
- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #16 — Merlin Mann
- Facebook Fraud - YouTube
- Project management triangle - Wikipedia
The Project Management Triangle (called also Triple Constraint or the Iron Triangle) is a model of the constraints of project management. It is a graphic aid where the three attributes show on the corners of the triangle to show opposition. It is useful to help with intentionally choosing project biases, or analyzing the goals of a project.
- Critical path method - Wikipedia
- Resource leveling - Wikipedia
In project management, resource leveling is defined by A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) as "A technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply."[1]
- Lectins Could Become the Next Gluten - The Atlantic
Plant proteins called lectins are an emerging source of confusion and fear.
- Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
- Squarespace Help - Accepting Apple Pay
- Kitchen work triangle - Wikipedia
- Universal design - Wikipedia
- Weekends were made for Michelob 1977 TV ad - YouTube
- Angela Brett on Twitter: "@hotdogsladies Apparently that's what facebook bots do, so I wouldn't be surprised. https://t.co/mVKgZENwgG"
- Archers of Loaf - Wikipedia
- Dick on Kipple | 43 Folders
There's the First Law of Kipple... 'Kipple drives out nonkipple.'...Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up there is twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot.
- Urban Dictionary: kipple
Kipple is a word coined by the remarkable science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It refers to the sinister type of rubbish which simply builds up without any human intervention. Eventually, one day, the entire world will have moved to a state of kipplization.
- Desire path - Wikipedia
A desire path (formally referred to as desire line in transportation planning, also known as a game trail, social trail, herd path, cow path, goat track, pig trail or bootleg trail) can be a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. Width and erosion severity can be indicators of how much traffic a path receives. Desire paths emerge as shortcuts where constructed ways take a circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent.
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