Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 22nd from 12:59 to 00:04:

• Ten things you’ll learn in your first year of business school – I’ve never had the desire to go to business school or get an MBA, but I found this post by Ellen Chisa about what she learned during her first year at Harvard…
• London’s Most Mysterious Mansion – Witanhurst, London’s largest private house, was built between 1913 and 1920 on an eleven-acre plot in Highgate, a wealthy hilltop neighborhood north of the city…
• A Giant, Fake City in the Middle of the Desert – Grigory Potemkin, the 18th-century war hero and nobleman, was also Catherine the Great’s lover and military advisor. According to ubiquitous legend, Potemkin…
• Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans worms | Hacker News – Scanning technologies have been used to show that cryopreservation via vitrification of cryoprotectant-infused tissue does indeed preserve the fine structure of…
• Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse – Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate…
• Atmosphere: think creatively & innovate boldly – Google for Work: Everyone has the power to innovate. How can you? We'll be discussing online at #atmosphere15: https://t.co/F2eTf5DFmG
• ‘Inside Out,’ Pixar’s New Movie From Pete Docter, Goes Inside the Mind – NYTimes.com – Michael B. Johnson: Indeed. And it’s a lovely movie, too! RT @petersagal A lovely story about a lovely man. http://t.co/N8YFIAZTeC
• 49 Shots And The Cop Goes Free – Joy Reid: White Cleveland cops file federal lawsuit, saying they face racial discrimination when they shoot black people – http://t.co/zX2YViJtHE
• Debate: Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb? – Derek Powazek: Your semiannual reminder that Nicholas Carr and Andrew Keen are morons. Elitist, arrogant, and just plain wrong. http://t.co/1cc02cximK
• How and why Los Angeles deployed open source and agile – GovFresh – By Luke Fretwell
  May 20, 2015 2:58 pm
  Last week at DrupalCon, representatives from the city of Los Angeles, CivicActions and Acquia shared their development and…
• AI Researchers On AI Risk – I first became interested in AI risk back around 2007. At the time, most people’s response to the topic was “Haha, come back when anyone believes this besides…
• How text mining survey data can help with customer segmentation – Posted by Bala Deshpande on Fri, Feb 07, 2014 @ 09:02 AM
  Understanding the needs of your customers is a critical aspect of business. This requires proper…