The Wealth & Health of Nations
This is a recreation of a Gapminder visualization made famous by Hans Rosling. It shows per-capita income (x), life expectancy (y) and population (area) of 180 nations over the last 209 years, colored by region.
Each bubble is a nation within the colored geographical area and the size of the bubble indicates population.
Commoning is a practice of collaborating and sharing to meet everyday needs and achieve wellbeing, of individuals, communities and lived-in environments.
The primary lesson of incarnation, which is what Christianity celebrates tonight, is that Yahweh is not like other gods! Merry Christmas!
“Mistaking wealth for virtue is a cruelty of our time. By treating poverty as inevitable for parts of the population, and giving impoverished workers no means to rise out of it, America deprives not only them but society as a whole.”
— The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior a.co/gpTTPZ1
The ducks are enjoying the weather.
I am conflicted. One one hand, beautiful 50 degree plus weather during a week vacation in December is great. On the other hand, it’s Christmas and there should be snow.
Swift for Good – Learn Swift, Change the World
20 well-known authors and speakers are coming together to write an all-new book for Swift developers, but all working for free so that 100% of revenues can be donated to charity.
The donation goes to Black Girls Code. I don’t know what is needed to write Swift, does one need a Mac?
There are many things that I like about hosting my blog on micro.blog, one of the top ones is On This Day, which shows the posts made on a particular day across all the years that I have been writing. It is proving valuable in seeing what I was thinking about or doing over the years.
The country, and what most will accept is much different now than during Watergate. I doubt we will ever see a Republican tell Trump he should resign as he is sure to be impeached.
I’ve been trying out Any.do as my list manager because it runs on all the platforms that I use. However, I’ve found it doesn’t support iOS 13 split screen or slide over, with no indication of when it will. Thus I will likely look for another app. The app I want must run well on iOS, Android and web, preferred to also run on Linux and Windows.
Why Everything You Know About the Nativity is Probably Wrong by Sarah Bessey
The incarnation is the miracle: it’s not Jesus' otherness but his us-ness, his human-ness, his full experience as fully human and fully God together that is the miracle.
The Grumpy Economist: Free market health care
My first question is why did they write down that goofy number of $100,000 on the bill, even though the insurance company only pays [$13,000]? …
Read to learn the answer. Health care is not a free market, it is gamed and all participants play it well.
I spent countless hours of my youth typing in programs and games from magazines in to my computer, which back then was the only way to get “free” software. Consequently, I find Code The Classics from Raspberry Pi appealing, so much so that I actually considering buying the printed version.
Happy Winter solstice
I’ve never had the ability to post pictures directly from my phone to my blog before, so now that I can, you will see more pictures here. You are warned. 😆
It is awesome outside, with 47 degrees four days before Christmas.
It’s About The Thing, Stupid - Writing By Frank McPherson
It seems to me the only way to change a thing is to find new people who are just focused on the thing and not on how to get rich from the thing. If you look back at Amazon, Twitter, Google, they were built by people not focused initially on making money but on changing shopping, keeping in touch with friends, or finding information all the while ignoring the naysayers who asked how Amazon, Twitter were going to make money.
I wrote the above last year, I’ve recently learned about Simon Sinek’s application of game theory to business and think what I wrote aligns to the infinite game.
Today is my last work day of the year, and I just finished my last meeting!
The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn’t something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.
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