To his credit, most essays they have you write in school are super boring. I always found them intolerable - and most students were just doing some version of ChatGPT to spam reasonable sounding sentences to hit the minimum number of pages.
Nobody ever told me that writing is a skill worth honing once you have something to say, to spread an idea or persuade, or clarify your own thinking. This made enjoy writing more as I discovered this in my 20's.
For this purpose, using the fewest number of words/sentences is best to be clear, whereas in school they accidentally taught us to be verbose to hit a minimum page requirement.
"Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. Sounds great when it's described that way, doesn't it? Except, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground."
Did you know CO allows the Idaho Stop? It's a law that allows cyclists to yield at stop signs and red lights, when it is safe to do so, rather than stopping. About a dozen states have a version of it to promote safety for individual cyclists and improve traffic flow with groups.
Our first two WorldView Legion spacecraft deployed their solar arrays and started receiving and sending signals! Now we’ll begin commissioning them for collecting imagery. Thanks @SpaceX for the ride to orbit!
More details here: https://t.co/CFiRIdJP7F
#satelliteimagery #viewfromspace #ittakesalegion
NLCD 2023 Sneak Peak!
Based on Landsat Collection 2, NLCD 2023 will offer annual products from 1985-2023. Depicting urban growth for the Atlanta area, this animation shows a single Landsat U.S. ARD tile of Anderson Level II #LandCover. https://t.co/THeHPq0ueT
Why does the sunlight come from the north in shaded relief maps?
The sunlight in this map comes from the upper left, but in the northern hemisphere the sun mostly occupies the southern half of the sky, so why isn't it coming from below?