two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble “Barnes Dances”
I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about
texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.
anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field
20th book of 2024: “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall ( https://www.killedbyatrafficengineer.com).
Lots of people read this last year when Marshall published it and the title was so catchy, I thought about it after the last few accidents in SF, which made me think I should go back and actually read it.
80+ three page ideas, lots of overlap with the incident management side of my day job, casually written (if a little too pop, even, but I guess that’s ok).
Every field is like this, it seems.
“daddy I thought we were supposed to be playing legos?”
“this is playing legos!”
batman was not impressed.
