{"id":873,"date":"2014-07-26T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2014-11-14T04:31:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:31:25","slug":"things-i-read-week-20-jul-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/things-i-read-week-20-jul-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool things I read about this week (20-Jul-2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read. A lot. Here is a sampling of the things I read about this week:
\n1. Blue whale is largest animal to have ever lived on earth<\/a>
\n2. Zappos is going to become a holocracy<\/a>
\n3. Mike Cohn pointing a drawback of Scrum<\/a>
\n4. Why Do Americans Stink at Math?<\/a>
\n5. You get to read 3 JSTOR papers every fortnight for FREE!!!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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My notes <\/h3>\n

1. Blue whale is largest animal to have ever lived on earth<\/a>
\nBlew my mind. I always thought some dinosaur would have been the largest animal to have lived on earth. Fun graphic here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Zappos is going to become a holocracy<\/a>
\nInteresting experiment by the culturally innovative Zappos. My gut expectation is that holocracy will attract people who can handle a lot of complexity and have a high tolerance to uncertainty.<\/p>\n

3. Mike Cohn pointing a drawback of Scrum<\/a>. I have sensed this for a long time. A series of sprints with uninspiring problems can be a drain, at least on engineering. People sense it, but this problem is *hard to recognize* given the focus on just the sprint. Almost always, we end up blaming something else for this sense of unease. And yes, I realize I am using the Internet and a famous figure (as opposed to proof) to reinforce a bias of mine.<\/p>\n

4. Why Do Americans Stink at Math?<\/a> Interesting NY Times piece. The anecdote about the McDonald’s quarter pounder beating the A&W burger that offered 1\/3 pounds of beef in their burger is interesting. Also interesting is the reason behind choosing 13 minus 9<\/strong> as a good subtraction problem.<\/p>\n

5. You get to read 3 JSTOR papers every fortnight for FREE!!!<\/strong><\/a> That’s a fantastic deal! I like mathematics (especially queuing theory) and have purchased quite a few papers from them in the past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read. A lot. Here is a sampling of the things I read about this week: 1. Blue whale is largest animal to have ever lived on earth 2. Zappos is going to become a holocracy 3. Mike Cohn pointing a drawback of Scrum 4. Why Do Americans Stink at Math? 5. You get to read 3 JSTOR papers every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-interesting-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}