This week I discovered the Financial Modelling World Cup, which hold esports events on YouTube where contestants solve financial modelling problem statements using an Excel template, complete with commentators!
A new study from The Electrification of Heat (EoH) demonstration project shows that heat pumps were installed in lots of different house types in the UK, which found that heat pumps are suitable for all types of house.
The Doughnut Economics website now includes a national doughnuts explorer, allowing users to view how well (or not) their countries fare on the doughnut sustainable economic model.
Getting Off Zero is a term to describe buying your first amount of Bitcoin. If you want to start learning about the world of Bitcoin & Crypto, InvestAnswers is a great YouTube channel to follow. James published short videos most days and summarises the latest news through a lens of risk management and cautious capital preservation and growth. As a result, a lot of the hype (aka. hopeium) is relatively low.
The Stack Overflow blog published a piece on 4 software development metrics defined by Google over a 6 year project to understand high performance software teams. Deployment frequency, Mean change lead time, Mean time to restore, and Change failure rate are apparently the best way to measure software development performance in a meaningful way.
Patrick Collison of Stripe maintains a list of big projects that have been executed fast, such as The Eiffel Tower, Amazon Prime, and most recently, The Covid-19 Vaccine. The list is a great reminder that big things can be done when needed.
Tim Ferriss interviewed Balaji Srinivasan for a second time, in a monster 4.5 hour podcast. Highlights of the interview include the future of the world powered by blockchain, China & geo-political outlook, anarchy in the U.S.A. and lots more. Listen to/watch the interview, and you'll be thinking about it for a week afterwards.
