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Burned Out At Work? Maybe You Need A “Hallmark Job” (Bustle) Hallmark’s come a long way in romanticizing ambitious women who love living in a city (I loved this one!), but the stereotype of “give up city life for one in a small town” endures. It’s also a deliberate choice that these women have made (and I love that for them, and love choice in general). A Hallmark life isn’t cozy perfection, and I appreciate these women sharing the hard moments as well. I do love a peek in how others live, and their lives are beautifully complicated as my own—just different. Next-Gen AI Needs Liquid Cooling (IEEE Spectrum) I have a soft spot in my heart for legacy or infrastructure focused companies. I began my career at Cisco, and the 7 layers of the OSI model was the first thing we learned. I tend to think a lot about the first layers when I think about new technology. The rise of AI has only intensified my ongoing panic about the electric grid (I see you, Abra Belke), and the strain of the physical layer. We have failed to scale the technology to support the rapid growth of AI, and the impact on our quality of life is immense—pollution of all kinds, rapid spread of misinformation, and the loneliness epidemic is only getting worse. There is hope. There are successful pilots of recycling data center heat to meet local heating demands, and there is new development in data centers to cool these centers more efficiently than water. I really loved learning about new liquid cooling technology, and appreciate how clearly this article explains it without infantilizing the reader... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app
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would you actually take a "Hallmark job"?
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