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Climate Crisis Part 3: A Global Strike
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2019
This is the third post in a series on the climate crisis. Post 1 declares the crisis. Post 2 is about the rising youth movement. Today’s post is about what to do next. The first and most urgent step everyone [...] Read more
Support Andrew Yang Now
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2019
Yesterday evening in the Democratic Debates Andrew Yang made a key observation in his closing remarks: the debates and their coverage are a reality show, which is exactly how we wound up with a reality show president last time. From [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 2: Youth Rising
Albert Wenger – Jul 31, 2019
This post is the second part in a series on the climate crisis (Part 1). Earlier this year I gave a talk titled Reasons for Optimism. In it I refer to the Fridays for Future movement started by the amazing Greta Thunberg as giving me hope. It [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 2: Youth Rising
Albert Wenger – Jul 31, 2019
This post is the second part in a series on the climate crisis (Part 1). Earlier this year I gave a talk titled Reasons for Optimism. In it I refer to the Fridays for Future movement started by the amazing [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 1: Reading
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2019
I no longer say “climate crisis” – instead I now call it what it is, the “climate crisis.” If you don’t think it is a crisis, I recommend the following readings. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdfhttps://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Both papers – in very different ways – make the [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 1: Reading
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2019
I no longer say “climate change” – instead I now call it what it is, the “climate crisis.” If you don’t think it is a crisis, I recommend the following readings. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdfhttps://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Both papers – in very different ways – [...] Read more
AI and the Allocation of Attention
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2019
Here is a talk which I gave at the Rise of AI conference in Berlin earlier this year on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and the allocation of attention. It explicitly links what is happening online to the climate crisis. Read more
The Trouble with Emoji
Albert Wenger – Jul 22, 2019
I know several wonderful people involved with the process of creating new emoji and occasionally see them celebrating an addition. I understand the motivation for representing more people, such as the recent addition of interskintone couples. And yet, each time [...] Read more
10x Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2019
A recent series of tweets about identifying 10x software engineers set off a lot of making fun of the author for perpetuating a myth. Given the wording of the tweets too they made a particularly easy target (I can’t actually [...] Read more