Let's start a ruckus
As a side project, I’ve launched an online store featuring space themed accessories. The first product is in stock and ready to ship… an eye-catching “Mars Is Waiting” vinyl sticker.
It features the red planet as captured in a mosaic of images taken by the Viking Orbiter in 1980 with the Schiaparelli crater front and center.
Going out for fabrication soon. Project we’re working on in Planar Microwave class (UW EE Master’s Program).
When you get your Apple Card, you’re invited to hold your phone near the card to activate it. I wondered if it was communicating with the card or something in the packaging.
One destructive outburst later, I had my answer. An NFC device inside the packaging:
A quick download of the “Hold” app from the iOS store reveals the simple URL the NFC device prompts the phone to access (and then activate the card):
The e-moto has five processors to manage performance and app-based connectivity, according to HD’s chief engineer for EV Technology, Sean Stanley.
TechCrunch, “Inside Harley-Davidson’s EV shift with a ride on its LiveWire“
I would very much like to 1) own a LiveWire (had the pure joy of a demo ride back in August) and 2) learn more about these five processors. 🙂
My own photo, taken during the Harley LiveWire Demo Event in August in Seattle at the Wick.
This past weekend, I was excited to see that the cosmonauts on the Space Station were commemorating Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space with a special Slow Scan Television (SSTV) broadcast. I hadn’t set up the antenna since we moved into our new home, so I took this as the perfect opportunity to do so.
I managed to capture five images over the three days. The carrier was quite strong, but the modulated signal level was very low until the last day. And then I was able to capture a proper image:
One of these days I will have to invest in a proper rotator. Got a little wet running out into the rain to track the station. Antenna is an Arrow II Satellite Antenna:
Here are the other images I captured (all images captured using Black Cat Systems SSTV iOS App and a YAESU FT-7800):
An (overly) ambitious title for the post notwithstanding, Simon Dowling offers a fair number of actionable insights on this quick read on the Venturi Group blog, including this:
As a CTO you are not there just to further your own agenda, not to just ‘look good’, but to drive the company forward as a whole. You are the single person others look to for decisions on short-term, tactical matters as well as plans for long-term, strategic goals.
Nobody is perfect. And trying to be perfect is not your job. Your job is to make informed decisions using the information at hand. Or in cases where there isn’t enough information, to set about collecting more so that a decision can be made….….the easiest way to train this skill is to be forced to make these kinds of decisions in front of others.
A firm warning about career blind spots from the Harvard Business Review couched in an amusing metaphor.
Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable. We call these types of issues “pandas.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’. Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.
Elena Lytkina Botelho and Katie Semmer Creagh
