This is a beautiful interactive webpage to illustrate the height/altitude of different things and how a potential future space elevator would relate to them.
If this had been done as a text page or even a page with a few illustrations it would have not have had the same impact. It even has elevator music you can listen to while you ascend the atmosphere.
Get your mouse scroll wheel (or you page up key) ready.
(Also have a look at some of the other pages on the site)
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This is an excellent article that touches on some many areas including Amazon (again) and their structure. However the most interesting part for me is the section on the way to view knowledge workers in business:
There are two camps of people where I work; those who want to return to the office and those who want to remain working remotely. The former group tend to be those whose work involves spending most of the day talking to people (the “business” side of the company). The latter group tend to be those whose work is mostly focussed around thinking - or have family and enjoy the balance this approach affords. I fall into the latter camp on both counts.
Part of my current role is prototyping new features and algorithms to determine if and how they will work. It’s nice to do some hands on coding still.