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title: "Things I Read in the Week of 2015-09-11"
date: 2015-09-12 04:03:37 EDT
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> This blog post is the first in a series of posts I'll be attempting to make
> every week to help me reflect on the things I've read this week. You can
> check out the **[read this week][]** tag for more entries in the future.

I track my reading habits using [Reading.am][] and occasionally, I work on
providing a week review of the things I've read here with a short blurb. This is
my way of writing a _really short_ book report but not for books and definitely
not a report.

### [Yak Shaving Defined - I'll get that done, as soon as I shave this yak.][link:1]

[Scott][] has a habit of cranking out some really useful posts and this, by far, is
one that I have bookmarked and revisit often. [Yak shaving][1] is amazingly well
depicted by that GIF he uses from Malcolm in the Middle:

![Hal, can you change the lightbulb?](http://i.minus.com/ibaDjk7AeIcvxv.gif)

### [Blavity’s August Review: Curls, podcasts and #BlackGirlMagic][link:2]

If you haven't noticed already, I'm a *very big* fan of Blavity. The minute I
found out about it, I've taken extra time out of my day to read the published
content and mention it to friends. I have a hoodie _and_ a t-shirt. I'm
potentially obsessed, heh.

<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.5% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/68gHK4nPuO/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_top">A photo posted by Jacky (@jackyalcine)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-08-28T23:22:55+00:00">Aug 28, 2015 at 4:22pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://instagram.com/p/tsKmginPsg/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top">In case you missed it on Twitter, a better headshot.</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by Jacky (@jackyalcine) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2014-10-03T12:18:59+00:00">Oct 3, 2014 at 5:18am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote>

I'm also glad to see New York City at the top of the list of places that hits
Blavity the most[^1]. This and the geographic move to the East Coast are things
to keep an eye out for. The East Coast's the best coast, by the way. 

### [All Websites Look The Same][link:3]

**Where is the lie?** Hegemonic thoughts leads to hegemonic stuff :frog: :tea:.

### [Debugging Diversity][link:4]

{% quote author:"<NAME>" title:"Debugging Diversity" url:"https://abernathymagazine.com/debugging-diversity/" %}
Diversity in technology is often presented as a numbers game. Huge companies
such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Linkedin, and others jump-started the
conversation about diversity in tech a couple of years ago by publishing their
diversity numbers. While numbers are necessary, however, they are insufficient
to fully solve the diversity problem in tech. 
{% endquote %}

It's not something that can be readily solved with an off-the-shelve
algorithm[^2], or with empty quotes for close to 5 years stating "We're
working hard on fixing shit whilst not ever attempting to hire from places
that are predominately NOT like us". Anjuan hits home with this.

## Novels

### [Slavery By Another Name][book:1]
Right now, I'm going over the chapter **Slavery is Not A Crime** in [Slavery By<commit_msg>update post w/ heading.<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: "Things I Read in the Week of 2015-09-11"
date: 2015-09-12 04:03:37 EDT
image: none
category: review
tags:
  - read-this-week
  - review
javascripts:
  - https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js

---

> This blog post is the first in a series of posts I'll be attempting to make
> every week to help me reflect on the things I've read this week. You can
> check out the **[read this week][]** tag for more entries in the future.

I track my reading habits using [Reading.am][] and occasionally, I work on
providing a week review of the things I've read here with a short blurb. This is
my way of writing a _really short_ book report but not for books and definitely
not a report.

## Digital Publications

### [Yak Shaving Defined - I'll get that done, as soon as I shave this yak.][link:1]

[Scott][] has a habit of cranking out some really useful posts and this, by far, is
one that I have bookmarked and revisit often. [Yak shaving][1] is amazingly well
depicted by that GIF he uses from Malcolm in the Middle:

![Hal, can you change the lightbulb?](http://i.minus.com/ibaDjk7AeIcvxv.gif)

### [Blavity’s August Review: Curls, podcasts and #BlackGirlMagic][link:2]

If you haven't noticed already, I'm a *very big* fan of Blavity. The minute I
found out about it, I've taken extra time out of my day to read the published
content and mention it to friends. I have a hoodie _and_ a t-shirt. I'm
potentially obsessed, heh.

<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.5% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/68gHK4nPuO/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_top">A photo posted by Jacky (@jackyalcine)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-08-28T23:22:55+00:00">Aug 28, 2015 at 4:22pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJ<KEY>); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://instagram.com/p/tsKmginPsg/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top">In case you missed it on Twitter, a better headshot.</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by Jacky (@jackyalcine) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2014-10-03T12:18:59+00:00">Oct 3, 2014 at 5:18am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote>

I'm also glad to see New York City at the top of the list of places that hits
Blavity the most[^1]. This and the geographic move to the East Coast are things
to keep an eye out for. The East Coast's the best coast, by the way. 

### [All Websites Look The Same][link:3]

**Where is the lie?** Hegemonic thoughts leads to hegemonic stuff :frog: :tea:.

### [Debugging Diversity][link:4]

{% quote author:"<NAME>" title:"Debugging Diversity" url:"https://abernathymagazine.com/debugging-diversity/" %}
Diversity in technology is often presented as a numbers game. Huge companies
such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Linkedin, and others jump-started the
conversation about diversity in tech a couple of years ago by publishing their
diversity numbers. While numbers are necessary, however, they are insufficient
to fully solve the diversity problem in tech. 
{% endquote %}

It's not something that can be readily solved with an off-the-shelve
algorithm[^2], or with empty quotes for close to 5 years stating "We're
working hard on fixing shit whilst not ever attempting to hire from places
that are predominately NOT like us". Anjuan hits home with this.

## Physical Publications

Because books with physical pages are still cool.

### [Slavery By Another Name][book:1]
Right now, I'm going over the chapter **Slavery is Not A Crime** in [Slavery By
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