The Intelligence from The Economist - Cash out: the digital-payments revolution
The global digital-payments shift is more than just a matter of convenience. We examine the cashlessness push in different economies and potential effects on different currencies. The Golden Mile, a pioneering multi-purpose architectural experiment in Singapore, is crumbling. We discuss efforts to spare it from the wrecking ball. And a reading list to learn about, and from, history’s greatest hoaxes.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 E7: Jason Boehmig, Ironclad
Jason Boehmig is lucky to be in tech, in his words. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do post college, and ended up at Lehman Brothers. In reflecting on what was unique about this moment in time, he decided it was tech's influence - and he wanted to be a part of it. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, and enjoys music, specifically collecting vinyl records and listening (they do sound better).
Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. Even Google was building their own internal version to handle this. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that.
This is the creation story of Ironclad.
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Take This Pod and Shove It - 55: “What You Get Is What You See” by Tina Turner
Last week we tragically lost Tina Turner, a musical icon often nicknamed the Queen of Rock N Roll. On this episode we not only want to celebrate the life of one of the greatest singers and performers in rock and pop history, but highlight Tina's unlikely and largely overlooked detours into country music. We discuss her early album of all country covers, hear her impressive versions of a few country covers, and add her mid-80s proto-pop-country hit "What You Get Is What You See" to our playlist.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.30.23
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Insurance
Insurance seems like a pretty modern concept. There are insurance commercials on television, and insurance companies sponsor major sports teams.
Most of us have to buy insurance, or we are at least under someone else’s insurance policy.
However, insurance is far from a modern concept. It is actually one of the oldest financial arrangements in human history.
Learn more about insurance, how it was created, and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Talk Python To Me - #417: Test-Driven Prompt Engineering for LLMs with Promptimize
Python Bytes - #338 Scripting iOS with Python
- The Basics of Python Packaging in Early 2023
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NBN Book of the Day - Ashok Gopal, “A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar” (Navayana, 2023)
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human. How and why did Ambedkar, who revered and cited the Gita till the 1930s, turn against Hinduism? What were his quarrels with Gandhi and Savarkar? Why did he come to see himself as Moses? How did the lessons learnt at Columbia University impact the struggle for water in Mahad in 1927 and the drafting of the Constitution of India in 1950? Having declared in 1935 that he will not die as a Hindu, why did Ambedkar toil on the Hindu Code Bill? What made him a votary of Western individualism and yet put faith in the collective ethical way of life suggested by Buddhism? Why is it wrong to see Ambedkar as an apologist for colonialism? From which streams of thought did Ambedkar brew his philosophies? Who were the thinkers he turned to in his library of fifty thousand books? What did this life of the mind cost him and his intimates? What of his first wife, Ramabai, while he was busy with the chalval?
A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar (Navayana, 2023) is a rigorous effort at both asking questions and answering as many as one can about B. R. Ambedkar. Ashok Gopal undertakes a mission without parallel: reading the bulk of Ambedkar’s writings, speeches and letters in Marathi and English, and what Ambedkar himself would have read. This is the story of the unrelenting toil and struggle that went into the making of Ambedkar legend.
Rituparna Patgiri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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