These are the 9 places we can't wait to go eat - I'm reading Eat My Globe and this is like an article sized version. So many great places here. Pairs well with the Eater's staycation restaurant guides for cities throughout the US.
Welcome to Diporto, a taverna that hasn’t changed much in the last 130 years. There’s no menu, but if you wait patiently, Mitsos, the elderly chef and proprietor, will start sending out plates ranging from fried sardines with lemon to slow-simmered chickpeas.
5 Tweet Tuesday - July 9, 2024 - I'm 50-50 on this newsletter as a whole, but this particular issue stood out to me. I tend to talk in circles and project into the future. More and more, I'm focused on testing my guesses as fast as possible. Less stressful, more productive.
“A prototype is worth a thousand meetings” (building a simple way to ‘taste test’ is often faster AND better than trying to figure things out in our heads)
A few words on taking notes - I am generally over "productivity hacks." But... God damn is this a good way to take notes. I can't believe I've never done this before. It is simple, easy, and fast.
A simple approach that has you split a notebook page into four parts: 1/ title, 2/ notes, 3/ keywords/questions, and 4/ summary. And no, it’s not because I worked at Cornell for the better part of a decade, but because this method encourages you to document your thought processes (i.e., ask questions), synthesise what you’re learning in real-time (i.e., take notes), and summarise it all after the fact (i.e., write a succinct summary).
Deeptech startup Sylvarum’s co-founder on improving food security in Asia by “electro hacking” plants - I've been following AgFunder for months without finding anything mind-blowing and it all paid off at once here. This is the future right here. An unreal intersection of cutting-edge biology and electronics. Note that the founders are wildly cross-functional. Only folks who live, learn, and work in a range of contexts can make these types of discoveries (in my opinion, of course).
“Plants have a nervous system where electrical signals control the metabolic processes that happen inside the organism,” she tells AgFunderNews. “Sylvarum is intervening this communication using external electric and magnetic fields. This can improve germination, increase ion uptake capacity, increase tolerance to stress, and accelerate growth.”
Professionalize the police - Every once in a while I come across something so profound it feels obvious. This article is a textbook use of bright spots from the wonderful book Switch. The quote below says it all.
In fact, U.S. cops undergo far less training than cosmetologists or plumbers — professions that don’t require people to carry deadly weapons and make life-and-death decisions.