This was fascinating! Thanks for it.

His book is THE best book on statistics I’ve ever read. Thoroughly recommended.

A fancy fineliner. I use a Rotting Isograph with a 0.1 mm nib. It has a refillable ink reservoir which I really like, making it quite cheap to run. Plus you can order just the nib if you break one in a fit of frustrated scribbling-over.

Thank you! More to follow…

Margaret Atwood with a flamethrower is, by far, the best thing I have ever seen.

This looks really interesting! I’ll give it a go. Thanks!

Not exactly managing a team – it’s more a question of best practices around pull requests, version control, testing, code reviews, pair programming etc. I’m not interested in management, but I do I want to know what a well managed team ought to be doing!

I like that! Oddly, the name “daddy longlegs” applies to craneflies like this in the UK, and to a kind of spider in the US.