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We launched the Urban League Heat Pump Accelerator project at Code for Boston last night with about twenty people showing up to volunteer! If you want to get involved we now have five groups, described below you can pick from to join. In order for any of the links to Slack channels below to work for you, you will need to join the Code for Boston Slack Team.

Last night I got to enjoy two power outages in the middle of the night. This is after a more prolonged outage a few weeks ago. After that outage I sent the following e-mail to Councilor Ed Flynn:

Over vacation last week I finished reading Flying Blind. Peter Robinson does a masterful job of taking the reader through the development of the plane and evolution of Boeing that brought us to this tragedy. When CEO Dennis Muilenberg joined Boeing as an intern it employed engineers that called themselves The Incredibles with a mandate to build the world’s best airplane. By the 2000s and development of 737 MAX the company had outsourced talent and cared more about avoiding more costs and requirements. They deployed armies of lobbyists to neuter the oversight of the Federal Aviation Administration. Their stubborn avoidance of procurement rules shackled them to old technology and eventually cost them more than had they started fresh. It also cost people their lives.

• How a Coding Error Caused Rogers an Outage that Left Millions Without Service is an account of the Canadian Internet outage earlier this month.
• America’s Lawyerless Courts is a grim overview of how the lack of lawyers involved in a surprising amount of civil cases is impacting the legal system. The fact this article has not been in more mainstream publications is a bummer.
• Code for America highlights its first impact sprint cohort. The Urban League Heat Pump Accelerator project I am helping with is a part of this.
• A lengthy critique and analysis of Getting Things Done. Although it is a bit dated, I still use many of the methods from the original book. The most controversial seems to be inbox zero. I still follow this, but the most maddening thing is most external sources treat your inbox as if you do not, so everything gets multiple reminders now, making it harder to achieve inbox zero. I am ruthless at unsubscribing.
• Congress passed the CHIPS Act which hopefully will be a good hedge against future chip shortages.

Casey Newton interviewing Adam Mosseri:

I think what is happening is people think of us as a feed app, because we started as a feed app. When we launched Instagram, there were no stories, there were no DMs. What’s happened over the last decade is that how people share with friends has changed. It has shifted to stories, and it has shifted to DMs and to group chats. More photos and videos are shared in DMs in a day, then are shared into stories. And more photos and videos are shared into stories in a day than are shared to feed. I don’t think connecting people with their friends and family is any less important to us than it was two years ago, or five years ago, or eight years ago. But how that works, and how we try and meet that need, has changed as how people communicate with their friends has changed.