suggested reads for October 10, 2021

• 20 ideas for better data visualization
• How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine – Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things;
• The CEO with an Empty Calendar – How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings;
• Machine Learning’s crumbling foundations – Cory Doctorow on ML current development status;
• The Ideology of Human Supremacy — “The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming innate superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is human supremacy innate to humanity, or rather something specific pertaining to our dominant culture?”