eXtreme Go Horse Methodology (XGH)
By talking about Agile Marketing, and Agile in general, with a foreign friend, I figured out that people outside Brazil are not familiar with the eXtreme Go Horse Methodology. Even though we’ve seen it applied to many companies (like Tesla), apparently this widely used global methodology was only formally detailed by Brazilian Devs.
Example XGH methodology: “In XGH you don’t think, you do the first thing that comes to your mind. There’s not a second option as the first one is faster.”(tags: satire agile programming coding xgh tesla methodologies process)
Is ‘Long Covid’ similar to ‘Long SARS’? | Oxford Open Immunology | Oxford Academic
‘Sufficient similarities exist between Long SARS and Long Covid (PASC) in symptoms, findings and course over time (so far) that one can predict that it is very highly likely that some Long Covid disability will persist permanently.’
Zuboff’s Cycle of Dispossession
‘The Cycle of Dispossession describes an anti-democratic pattern, which [Shoshana] Zuboff [in _The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism_, 2019] lays out as a four-stage process: incursion, habituation, adaptation, and redirection.’
(tags: capitalism tech dispossession shoshana-zuboff future democracy embrace-extend-extinguish)
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ooh, kinda cool (though very geeky) — trigger NFC activity using a ring on your hand, including POS terminals, activating doors, and public transport