Costa first novel award winner recalls ‘awful’ time writing his book:
He was working as a travel writer in Dubai when the idea that would become Evelyn Hardcastle struck him. “It was the body-hopping and the Groundhog Day loop. I didn’t have anything else, the characters or murder, I just had that concept. The moment I got it, I thought: ‘Oh crap, now I’ve got to go and do that, and I’ve got to be in England, I need that atmosphere, those stately homes. I need to be lost in drizzly forests, I cannot do that in the desert,’” he says. “I was terrified the entire time, from the moment the idea came and I knew I had to follow through on it.”
I love that description of an idea.
Nadia Eghbal thinks through seed stage philanthropy and includes an interesting though on patronage:
“I also keep thinking about the need for something like Patreon, but “Patron”. Basically, a platform that inverts the ask, so it’s not just grantees soliciting money, but patrons who advertise their giving interests, like angel investors on AngelList.”
If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any
It is only by owning [root authority over our lives] that we can crank up agency on the individual’s side. We have a perfect base for that in the standards and protocols that gave us the Internet, the Web, email and too little else. And we need it here too. Soon.
Doc Searls with a super interesting post contrasting privacy regulations with attempts to actually assert privacy rights. I like the idea of Customer Commons, which I hadn’t heard about until now.
‘It’s tough sleeping at night’: ranchers seek to protect herds as wolves move in
I asked Sumner how seeing the wolf made him feel, and it took him some time to elaborate. Earlier in the day, he had lamented how some wolf advocates glorified the species. But when describing his emotions when he saw the wolf three years ago, reverence crept into his tone.
I had no idea how much of an impact wolves had on politics, policy, feelings, and everything else until moving to Eastern Washington. This article on wolves moving into California for the first time since the 1920s was great.
My other appreciation for this article is that it was done in partnership with Pacific Standard, an independent news magazine, which in turn had support from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
I made it years with NPM and just learned that npm ci performs a clean install of a project’s NPM dependencies from the package-lock.json file rather than package.json. This helped me through a confusing situation where npm install was updating the repo’s package-lock.json file for reasons.
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