Full Stack Banana LJ Darveau & Alex Gervais

Cette semaine, on navigue encore une fois les incidents dramatiques dans les transports, jusqu’au paysage changeant de l'emploi, explorant encore une fois les impacts de l’IA. On discute aussi de santé mentale et de “meta-anxiété”, de la sagesse de Buffett et Munger et enfin, l'ornithologie comme passe-temps transformateur?
Notes et références
[01:00] South Korea detains passenger after Asiana plane door opened mid-air
[05:00] Man Is Charged With Shoving Woman’s Head Against Moving Subway Train
[10:00] Michelle Go
[11:00] The Disappearing White-Collar Job
Companies are rethinking the value of many white-collar roles, in what some experts anticipate will be a permanent shift in labor demand that will disrupt the work life of millions of Americans whose jobs will be lost, diminished or revamped partly through the use of artificial intelligence. 
[22:00] Uber suspends diversity chief over 'Don’t Call Me Karen’ events
Lee’s suspension, which was first reported by the New York Times, follows mounting internal discontent over two “Don’t Call Me Karen” sessions that she convened on Zoom for up to 500 employees. The events, one in April and the second last week, were billed as “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience from some of our female colleagues, particularly how they navigate around the ‘Karen’ persona”.
[29:00] Andrew Sullivan sur le lancement vertement critiqué de la campagne de Ron DeSantis.
[31:00] Musk for president?
[35:00] Community notes
[41:00] Buffett and Munger on Success, Toxicity and Elon Musk
Mr. Munger said that success comes from steering clear of toxic people. 
“The great lesson of life is get them the hell out of your life—and do it fast,” Mr. Munger said. 
[44:00] Eulogy virtues vs. resume virtues
[45:00] Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
[47:00] Why we should not be so anxious about anxiety
[50:00] Of boys and men & Is there really a crisis?
[55:00] Three Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life
I believe that birds in the wild are meant to inspire such passions in us all. The wonders they offer are always available, freely given, to anyone willing to partake. All we have to do is step outside, look and listen.
[57:00] Merlin


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Dans ce troisième et dernier épisode de la série, on décortique les cinq derniers principes de Glaser : de l’attrait du style à l'influence profonde des expériences de vie sur le cerveau, la vertu du doute, les perspectives sur le vieillissement, et l'importance primordiale de dire la vérité.
La première partie se trouve ici et la deuxième, ici.
Notes et références
Le texte dans son intégralité a originalement été publié sur Reading Design.
[02:00] Style is not to be trusted
I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvelous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from a very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and everything else along the way. What is clear just from looking at this single print is that style is irrelevant. In every one of these cases, from extreme abstraction to acute naturalism they are extraordinary regardless of the style. It’s absurd to be loyal to a style. It does not deserve your loyalty. I must say that for old design professionals it is a problem because the field is driven by economic consideration more than anything else. Style change is usually linked to economic factors, as all of you know who have read Marx. Also fatigue occurs when people see too much of the same thing too often. So every ten years or so there is a stylistic shift and things are made to look different. Typefaces go in and out of style and the visual system shifts a little bit. If you are around for a long time as a designer, you have an essential problem of what to do. I mean, after all, you have developed a vocabulary, a form that is your own. It is one of the ways that you distinguish yourself from your peers, and establish your identity in the field. How you maintain your own belief system and preferences becomes a real balancing act. The question of whether you pursue change or whether you maintain your own distinct form becomes difficult. We have all seen the work of illustrious practitioners that suddenly look old-fashioned or, more precisely, belonging to another moment in time. And there are sad stories such as the one about Cassandre, arguably the greatest graphic designer of the twentieth century, who couldn’t make a living at the end of his life and committed suicide. But the point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist. What is it that people now expect that they formerly didn’t want? And how to respond to that desire in a way that doesn’t change your sense of integrity and purpose.
[14:00] How to live changes your brain
The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and he says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have. I was fascinated by a story in a newspaper a few years ago about the search for perfect pitch. A group of scientists decided that they were going to find out why certain people have perfect pitch. You know certain people hear a note precisely and are able to replicate it at exactly the right pitch. Some people have relative pitch; perfect pitch is rare even among musicians. The scientists discovered – I don’t know how – that among people with perfect pitch the brain was different. Certain lobes of the brain had undergone some change or deformation that was always present with those who had

Cette semaine, on discute du cas tragique de Jordan Neely, soulignant la nécessité de réformes systémiques pour gérer la question de la santé mentale et de la sécurité publique. De plus, Snoop Dogg clarifie la pensée de tous sur l'IA lors d'une table ronde, et les préoccupations de Yuval Noah Harari concernant les dangers potentiels de l'IA et la nécessité de la transparence et d’une forme de réglementation. Nous avons également abordé des conseils pour la prévention de l'arthrite, le partenariat innovant entre Apple et Goldman Sachs dans le secteur bancaire, les difficultés auxquelles les hommes modernes sont confrontés et les avancées récentes dans la recherche sur l'anti-vieillissement. Enfin, nous avons célébré le succès surprenant de Mark Zuckerberg lors de son premier tournoi de Jiu-Jitsu!
Notes et références
[05:00] Affaire Jordan Neely
Voices Politicizing NYC Subway Death Opposed Mayor’s Plan for Severe Mentally Ill
Charging Daniel Penny, the Subway Samaritan
Neely’s death is a tragedy, but the charges against Mr. Penny raise troubling questions about the decline of public order and the way the mentally ill have been left to fend for themselves on our streets and public spaces.
And What Would You Have Done?
[T]he government’s message to subway passengers is: You’re on your own; there’s just not that much the city will do to keep you out of situations involving homeless people. These situations will sometimes feel dangerous and occasionally be dangerous, but another part of being on your own is that you’ll have to figure out for yourself which situations do and do not pose a genuine threat. To make the challenge even more stimulating, be advised that the world’s most influential newspaper is prepared to denounce you if it believes your response to a particular situation was disproportionate to its true dangers.
A Subway Killing Stuns, and Divides, New Yorkers
Paul Graham on Twitter
[19:00] Snoop Dogg & IA
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
Sam Altman: Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?
I think the development of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, should be a government project, not a private company project, in the spirit of something like the Manhattan Project. I really do believe that. But given that I don’t think our government is going to do a competent job of that anytime soon, it is far better for us to go do that than just wait for the Chinese government to go do it.
Lire aussi:
[32:00] Prévention de l’arthrite
[36:00] Reddit vs. Google
Parents: Use Reddit, not Google. Google was once a fantastic collator of the best things the Internet had to offer. Now it’s a cesspool of sponsored content and boring, standard-ass Top 125 websites that all say the exact same things. If you’re a parent and you’re searching for some answers to your medical questions, well, you should probably first talk to the doctor to whom you pay money for just these sorts of things. But if you’re going to go digging on the Internet, don’t use Google. Use Reddit.
You know why? Because Reddit at its best is basically the Internet at its finest: pure information, undiluted exchange. It’s full of people just sharing the stuff they know.
[37:00] Apple’s New Savings Account Draws Nearly $1 Billion In Deposits In First Four Days
[43:00] Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It et Why men are hard to help
[46:00] Redshirting
[48:00] Zuck does Jiu Jitsu
[52:00] My Plan to Slow Down Aging
But his second argument is: we put a lot of time and money into researching cures for cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimers’, et cetera. Progress in these areas is bought dearly: all the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and what’s remaining is a grab bag of different complicated things - lung cancer is different from colon cancer is different from bone cancer.

Cette semaine on parle falsification des préférences, du (manque de) courage dans la paternité, l'énigme qui s’étire autour de Jeffrey Epstein, les faux diamants, l'héritage musical de Gordon Lightfoot, les défis des nouvelles entreprises de médias avec la faillite anticipée de Vice Media, l'augmentation des décès dus au Fentanyl, la théorie du fer à cheval en politique et les défis de criminalité, de consommation de drogues et d’itinérance à San Francisco.
Notes et références
[02:00] Cinco de mayo, per ChatGPT
Cinco de Mayo, or the 5th of May, is a celebration that commemorates the Mexican Army's unexpected victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Though it is not Mexico's Independence Day (which is on September 16th), it is a significant day in Mexican history and has become a popular cultural event, especially in the United States, where it is celebrated with parades, food, music, and festivities that showcase Mexican heritage and pride.
[03:00] Nefarious
[04:00] Preference falsification is the act of misrepresenting our wants under perceived social pressures
[06:00] Navy — In Court, Hunter Biden Cries Poor to Reduce Child Support Payments
Biden has retained "some of the most expensive attorneys on planet Earth," according to a motion filed by Roberts last Thursday, including former Arkansas attorney general Dustin McDaniel, Lowell, and Morris.
[14:00] WSJ — Epstein, la liste s’allonge
[20:00] Les faux diamants sont éternels, et moins chers
[23:00] AI makes Paul McCartney’s voice youthful
[26:00] Gordon Lightfoot
[30:00] Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy
[35:00] Estimates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, and Oxycodone: United States, 2021
[37:00] Illinois high school offers racially segregated math classes
The high school’s move to offer separate math classes for students of certain racial groups echoes actions taken by colleges across the United States, which have started to offer graduation ceremonies separated by race in recent years.
[38:00] Horseshoe theory
[41:00] San Francisco
Nordstrom’s Exit From San Francisco Calls Downtown Mall’s Future Into Question
Police Tell San Francisco Homeowner To Hire Private Security After Suffering 8 Break-Ins
Chicago Police recommend Riot Glass to prevent smash-and-grab crimes
Oregon bill would decriminalize homeless encampments and propose penalties if unhoused people are harassed or ordered to leave



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Dans la deuxième partie de notre série sur la sagesse de Milton Glaser, on explore trois leçons clés : identifier les relations toxiques grâce à un test énergisant, reconnaître les limites du professionnalisme et remettre en question le mantra "less is more" en adoptant "juste assez c'est plus" comme une approche plus appropriée.
La première partie se trouve ici.
Notes et références
[05:00] SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on. Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energized or less energized. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.
[25:00] PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.
Early in my career I wanted to be professional, that was my complete aspiration in my early life because professionals seemed to know everything - not to mention they got paid for it. Later I discovered after working for a while that professionalism itself was a limitation. After all, what professionalism means in most cases is diminishing risks. So if you want to get your car fixed you go to a mechanic who knows how to deal with transmission problems in the same way each time. I suppose if you needed brain surgery you wouldn’t want the doctor to fool around and invent a new way of connecting your nerve endings. Please do it in the way that has worked in the past. Unfortunately in our field, in the so-called creative – I hate that word because it is misused so often. I also hate the fact that it is used as a noun. Can you imagine calling someone a creative? Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
[37:00] LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE
Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realized that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the history of the world. If you look at a Persian rug, you cannot say that less is more because you realize that every part of that rug, every change of colour, every shift in form is absolutely essential for its aesthetic success. You cannot prove to me that a solid blue rug is in any way superior. That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else. Howeve

Dans cet épisode, nous rendons hommage à feu Harry Belafonte et Jerry Springer, explorons le départ controversé de Tucker Carlson et célébrons la diversité de Costco. On découvre les best-sellers repensés d'IKEA, on visite le « Disneyland des épiceries » et on discute des trophées de participation dans les sports pour les jeunes. De plus, nous examinons l'évolution vers une «notation équitable» dans les écoles.
Notes et références
[01:00] Dignité, beauté, grace, principes, justice, personnifiés: Harry Belafonte
Work all night on a drink of rum
Daylight come and we want go home
Stack banana 'til the morning come
Daylight come and we want go home
Come Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and we want go home
Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and we want go home
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana
Daylight come and we want go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and we want go home
[06:00] Fake reality TV: Jerry Springer
“I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy a comfortable measure of success in my various careers,” he added, “but let’s be honest, I’ve been virtually everything you can’t respect: a lawyer, a mayor, a major-market news anchor and a talk-show host. Pray for me. If I get to heaven, we’re all going.”
[11:00] Tucker Carlson—willing to report stories no one else would touch (City Journal) et The Smuggest Man On Air (American Prospect)
That look of smirking disbelief is deliberately theatrical. But Carlson’s insistent distrust of his powerful guests acts as a solvent to authority, frequently making larger-than-life figures of the political establishment defend arguments they otherwise treat as self-evident.
Tucker’s willingness to challenge and mock ruling elites went alongside an obsessively nativist message that alienated viewers who might otherwise have embraced his populist perspective. His popularity with a wide audience begs the question why other nightly news shows that attacked him didn’t raise the same critiques, without the nativism.
[19:00] Costco
Venture into a Costco warehouse – a more diverse place than many a university or legislature – and you will see shoppers from all walks of life gathered together in the pursuit of consumer goods. Here, people of various faiths and backgrounds peruse the aisles, in search of the latest giant screen television sets, buckets of ice cream, and rotisserie chickens, treating one another with respect, regardless of their beliefs. The only judgement passed is reserved for those who bump carts or try to skip the line. Upon departing this peacful and lively consumer’s paradise, some may venture to their respective places of worship, while others linger and indulge in a beverage and a $1.50 hot dog with friends. One family may commemorate a milestone with a baptism, another might celebrate a traditional rite of passage, while still others head to the ballpark in the comfort of their spacious SUVs. And as this diverse tapestry of personal journeys is woven, everyone finds contentment.
[29:00] IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers, Starting With the Billy Bookcase
One of the company’s chief weapons in its fight to cut costs is the Billy bookcase, a bestseller considered the “heart of IKEA,” said Jesper Samuelsson, the product’s manager. Over 140 million units have been sold since it first appeared in the 1979 edition of the IKEA catalog. The company says someone, somewhere buys a Billy every five seconds—which comes out to around 6.3 million sales a year.
[33:00] Stew Leonard's is called the 'Disneyland of dairy stores' — and after one visit, I totally get the hype et Stew Leonard Sr. Dies at 93
[37:00] Die with zero (entretien avec Peter Attia)
I hope my message has at least jarred you into rethinking the standard and conventional approaches to living one’s life—get a good job, work hard through endless hours, and then retire in your sixties or seventies and live out y