My Week in Review (2017-04-16)

What Happened?

• More Startup School videos
• First week of the Mindshift course
• Ran 20.5km

Articles

• The Stats of The Furious - Enjoyable visualisation of the Fast and Furious franchise
• I'm Sick of Injustice Dressed as Inconvenience - A response to the responses of the assault on a customer of United
• United Airlines made me ABANDON my mobility device at the gate before my honeymoon - Another horrific tale of United customer service
• ​Australian Authorities Hacked Computers in the US - The murky waters of international law seems painful to work with, I can't see any way to guarantee an operation would only target people within a country
• Free Furry of The Land: When SovCits and Furries Collide - Lawyers investigation of a sovereign citizen fued and furries
• New Technology Is Built on a 'Stack.' Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too? - I didn't realise this was a thing
• Princeton’s Ad-Blocking Superweapon May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race - Interesting idea since another article (opting out - below) had a picture of an ad. Would that image get blocked?
• Your Government's Hacking Tools Are Not Safe - The need for more open policies on hacking (touches on the golden key issue with FBI vs Apple)
• Our Dishonest President - Delves on Donald Trump as a president
• The iPad Turnaround Is Coming - Could the iPad turn-around as a device?
• What Individuals Should Do Now That Congress Has Obliterated the FCC’s Privacy Protections - Guidelines for anyone to follow after the FCC privacy protections are gone
• How Much My Digital Nomad Lifestyle Costs: Real Budget Numbers from Nearly 5 Years on the Road - Overview of one nomads real budget when travelling
• Leveling up your code reviews - Advice for doing better code reviews
• How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours - Writing and scaling a simple crawler on AWS
• Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? - Trying to find a balance using a desktop monitor for myself
• Security Advisory: Mobile Phones - Another article on the security of mobile phones (if you haven't already, you should be using 2FA with an application and not SMS)
• Opting Out: The Illusion - Attempting to opt-out of tracking for advertising
• The Science of Sleep: Regulating Emotions and the Twenty-four Hour Mind - Another article on sleep and their effects

Reading

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Elon Musk: Inventing the Future (audiobook)

Watched

• The Man In The High Castle - The show will suck you in until the end
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - I feel like Marvel is doing an amazing job in the TV show space, making some of my favourite recent shows