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reMarkable

remarkable.com

Replace your notebooks and printed documents with the only tablet that feels like paper.

This looks incredible. It’s a bit much for me to buy sight unseen, but the Hacker News comments seem to indicate a good track record. While I love my iPad Pro, there are a lot of things about this that I wish it had.

Sixty Years of Green Eggs and Ham

brianjayjones.com

Generations of readers would look for hidden meanings and metaphors in its text—but for Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham was only ever about one thing: “Cerf bet me fifty bucks I couldn’t write a book using only 50 words,” he said later. “I did it to show I could.”

Young children would rather explore than get rewards

news.osu.edu

As expected, the adults learned quickly which creature gave the most candies and selected that creature 86 percent of the time. But children selected the highest-reward creature only 43 percent of the time.

And it wasn’t because the children didn’t realize which choice would reap them the largest reward. In a memory test after the study, 20 of 22 children correctly identified which creature delivered the most candy.

“The children were not motivated by achieving the maximum reward to the extent that adults were,” Blanco said. “Instead, children seemed primarily motivated by the information gained through exploring.”

A Nomenclature for Low-Code Users

colemanm.org

But the largest gap is that middle bunch of Tinkerers. Not only do they stand to gain the most from low-code tools. From my observations, that group is also the fastest-growing category. Every day as more tech-native people enter the workforce, or are compelled to dive into technical tools, people are graduating from Novice to Tinkerer status, realizing that many modern tools are resilient to experimentation and forgiving of user error.

The RNC shows the Republican Party is now Trump’s personality cult

vox.com

My personal favorite formulation came from Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA). “President Trump has delivered for the hardworking people of this great nation,” he said. “It’s going to take that kind of bold leadership to get us out of this COVID crisis.” You mean, this crisis, the one that has overwhelmed America on Donald Trump’s watch, even as our peer nations have wrestled cases down to more manageable levels?