Five for Friday – November 6, 2020

You may have noticed that there was an election in the US this week.

  • Because you (or your friends and relatives) may need it – here’s the wikipedia article explaining our (U.S.) archaic process for electing presidents.
  • Like a lot of people, I don’t have cable, and was a bit worried about watching live news coverage of the election. Fortunately, I found pluto.tv, and it gave me everything I needed and more.
  • Some guy named Alex is now internet famous (w/ me at least) for writing a scraper to show some key stats about the elections in the remaining undecided states.
  • It’s no secret that I’m a Pat Lencioni fan. A recent concept of his that I really like is the six types of genius, and it’s worth checking out.
  • A clever software engineer named his company, “><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD (hopefully that shows up correctly when I publish this)

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