Really wish my dog was able to make the logical leap between my arm length and how far he needs to drop the ball from me when I'm sitting at my desk for me to pick it up and throw it for him.

Seems strange that the Rat Czar of NYC resists any estimate for how many rats there actually are. She makes it sound like this is an intractable problem but we have well tested methods for getting population size estimates. open.spotify.com/episode/7bkq...

SUBSTRING(string FROM pattern) is such unintuitive ordering because you're extracting that pattern from the string.

The dog from the beginning of 1982's The Thing is actually a wolf-dog hybrid. The "can produce fertile offspring" has many inadequacies as the key criterion for a species.

Getting comfortable with recursive CTEs in sql requires all the conceptual lift of learning lapply() / map() with 1/8th the payoff.

Part way through On The Edge. One interesting point is how some top VC firms are successful to an extent by reputation and selection (best start-ups flock there). Similar to how even if Harvard wasn't adding value they'd likely still be successful due to the best choosing to congregate there.

Prefer "0 following" over "current row" ...