Trevor McKendrick - Claims about Taylor Swift

Hi all,

Friendly reminder that optimism should be a verb - something you do.

Trevor

Fatherhood as Practicing Virtue (article)

This moved me in a way that I never would have appreciated before becoming a father.

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (book)

Another wonderful book by Stripe Press, written by the guy who wrote Staff Engineer.

The details on Bilts’ credit card business model are finally public (article)

They make a lot of their money from a referral payment that Wells Fargo pays them, that Wells has said is unsustainable.

Claims about Taylor Swift (article)

Taylor Swift’s concert is creating inflation & seismic activity.

Disney invented a special green screen and then lost it (youtube)

They even used it for Mary Poppins and other movies - now the tech just doesn’t exist.

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