What I read online #12
Ideal Performance State for athletes and employees. Biometric data and AI revolutionise athletics. Next-generation digital media will focus on low-volume and high-attention relationships.
Pep Talks – does a motivating pre-game speech suit every athlete?
I've been thinking a lot lately about execution/performance/success and the parallels between sports and work - also wrote a LinkedIn post about it.
If you've never heard about the Ideal Performance State in sports, this article provides great insight into how top professional athletes prepare themselves for optimal performance.
The Future of Sports: How biometric data and AI will revolutionise athletics.
More on sports this week, check this article on how biometric data, like real-time thumping heart rate, max, and average, is changing the way we consume (aka see) sports - and how artificial intelligence is changing the way coaches approach their athletes' training and performance.
The New Era of Social Media Isn’t About Feeds.
This generation of social media with their highly efficient algorithmic feeds has been great at keeping us hooked, keeping us scrolling, and keeping us coming back.
This article argues that the next generation of digital media rather than high-volume & low-attention feeds will be focusing on low-volume and high-attention relationships.
How technology changes our sense of right and wrong.
What drives society's understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable -- from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat -- and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to more ethical behaviour.
NASA renames its headquarters after its first Black female engineer, Mary W. Jackson.
Mary W. Jackson was the first Black female engineer at NASA, beginning work there in 1951 when the agency was still segregated.
She was portrayed in the 2016 book and subsequent movie Hidden Figures, she was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of her contributions to mathematics and engineering in 2019 and finally, last week, NASA renamed its headquarters in her honour.
Dr Rachel Levine Faced Transphobic Comments During Historic Confirmation Hearing
Dr. Rachel Levine made history on Thursday by becoming the first transgender person to receive a confirmation hearing to a Cabinet-level appointment.
During the hearing, Levine faced transphobic questioning, which likened gender-confirming surgeries for trans youth to “genital mutilation”.
The Time-Series ecosystem
With IoT and other sectors where time is not just a metric but the primary axis, time-series data is becoming more and more popular. So does the time-series ecosystem; the time-series databases, analytics solutions, and ML/AI platforms.
Helga Stentzel hangs clothes to create surreal farm animal illusions
Russian-born but London-based visual artist Helga Stentzel has taken drying clothes to a whole new level — she has transformed her laundry into whimsical optical illusions that resemble farm animals and has set them against a countryside backdrop.