In a 2016 study, the Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his research team found that the difference in life expectancy between forty-year-olds in the top one per cent of American income distribution and in the bottom one per cent is fifteen years for men and ten years for women.

That’s a lot of years. Via Kottke.

Last night, thieves rammed through the Bike Peddler’s front door with a pick up truck and stole a bunch of bikes. Turns out my bike was (is?) in there for repair.

When I shared the news with my colleagues, one almost immediately responded with this. :chef-kiss:

I wonder if I’ll get my bike back.

The world is a strange and wonderful place. Scott McCloud, of Understanding Comics fame, made a comic about… Kubernetes for Google.

I had a dough ball remaining from last night so I made a carbonara pizza for breakfast. Bake crust with pecorino, bacon, mozzarella, lots of pepper for 4 minutes, then add the two eggs and broil for ~2 min.

Main staircase. Blanton museum, Austin, TX.

From Cloudflare: Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness.

Yes please. One more reason to get a YubiKey.

Austin, TX

My partner and I love food. On a 0-to-10 scale, all foods have a chance of reaching the highest mark. Pizza? Definitely. Gelato? For sure. Duck? Of course. A simple loaf of bread? Hell yeah. But a meatloaf? Nope. Meatloaf maxes out at 6. Six decades of combined eating made this opinion into a fact.

A few days ago, my partner was talking about her work and how she felt it was impossible for her to do a good job. She could work hard, over communicate, do her best work, and she’d still have, at best, an impact of 6.

And there was born the meatloaf job: a job where it’s impossible to do a great job.

This reminded of David Graeber’s observation in Bullshit Jobs that people want to be the cause of events. He called it “the pleasure of being the cause.” In bullshit jobs, either people’s actions have no effect, or the effects are too far removed to be known.

Currently reading: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚

What an odd Big Sur bug. VS Code’s dock icon is minuscule and impossible to click on. It reminds me of when your Badland’s little flappy furry balls becomes tiny.