#428 - Don't punch Nazis, Utopian Limits, and Norse weekday origins
Spent the weekend at an event where I represented a slightly evil Jello corporation and offered people silly jobs at our HQ that ended with you getting vacuum sealed in pink latex if you did well. Good times!
Tech
Facilitated retrospectives that engage in a real discussion — www.retrium.com
'Retrospectives as a service' for agile teams - but also for anything else! Tons of good frameworks to look back on things, like 'Like Wish Wonder' and beyond.
Northwest Registered Agent LLC - We're Just Not Annoying
I like the way this self funded business talks about their customer service, and ensures you don't wait for agents and that all are empowered to help you.
I wonder what exactly about this method doesn't scale up to big corps like AT&T? Is is their size or their governance?
Lifehacks
The Limits of Utopia — www.salvage.zone
I finished that 'steampunk Lovecraft DnD campaign on crack' book I mentioned last week and am still buzzing from it. Turns out the author wrote his PhD thesis on Marx and writes cutting nonfiction pieces like this one on the world we should live in.
Some good stuff in here: "Pessimism has a bad rap among activists, terrified of surrender. But activism without the pessimism that rigor should provoke is just sentimentality. "
Should We Be Punching Nazis? | Talking Points Memo — talkingpointsmemo.com
Whether you should punch a Nazi is an old philosophical question that came up in 2016 when antifa randos punched some famous alt right leader guy on camera.
This post does an excellent job of explaining why its actually counterproductive to do so unless in self defense. You're legitimizing the rule of force over the rule of law, which is a vote for authoritarianism.
Never mind the fact that you're probably radicalizing that person further and making them more likely to hurt others in the future.
Fun
Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org
I only just learned that our weekdays are named after the Norse pantheon:
Sunnandæg "sun's day".
Mōnandæg "Moon's day".
Tīwesdæg - Týr's day, god of war
Wōdnesdæg - 'Odin's day'
Þūnresdæg 'Thor's day'
Frīgedæg 'Frigg's day'
Saturn's day (aka Cronus, Zeus' dad)