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I really enjoyed this Quick Primer on 5G:

There is an increasing need for mobile data (the amount of mobile data used in the US is up 4x since 2014 and 40x since 2010) but the existing spectrum doesn’t have enough bandwidth to support a lot of additional traffic. 5G will be on a new, uncongested spectrum at a higher frequency (higher frequency = the wavelength is shorter so signal travels faster).

I have been spending a lot of time learning modern Javascript over the past month or two. From this there are a few key tools and tips I have picked up:

I really enjoyed John Doerr’s TED Talk on OKRs:

One of the biggest cultural transitions from working a political campaign to working in government and running Code for Boston is that I am no longer surrounded by Type AAA personalities that all want to be leaders. When I worked for the Connecticut Democratic Party you would go to a meeting and folks would fight for their ideas. There would be a battle for the floor in meetings. People would press each other to make decisions. This difference in personality brings a lot of strengths to the group. Empathy, compassion, and openness. However it also leads to one pattern that is very challenging: the punt.

An interesting insight from Annie Lowry at the The Atlantic:

More than that, Iowa’s tight labor market has forced employers to offer training, reach out to new populations of workers, and accept applications from workers they might not have before — expanding and up-skilling the labor pool as a whole as a result. “Their attitude really seems to be changing,” said Soneeta Mangra-Dutcher of Central Iowa Works, a workforce-development nonprofit. “They are looking at populations differently, who they they should be looking at when they have jobs to fill, or people being screened out for things that really don’t have an effect on the job.”