I confess I’ve used foodgawker.com right along with everyone else! The site simply combines posts from food bloggers around the planet – then shows just the photos recipes based on your search. Like a photo – click on it and go to the recipe. Here are the search returns for ice cream:

Modular housing has come a long ways. The people behind connect-homes.com show us a way forward. They are focused on people rebuilding after the California wild fires.

In a KDnuggets.com article “Marketable Data Scientist” by Andrew Ste this August explains, “As a data scientist, you are in high demand. So, how can you increase your marketability even more? Check out these current trends in skills most desired by employers in 2019.” It’s all in the chart.

Of course you have to do some grilling in August! Shocked by how much they want for a good cut of meat? Me too. So let’s drop it down a few notches by cookin up some hot dogs in a good way.

Suzie of HeyGrillHey.com shows us how! Let’s roll her August 21, 2019 video …

Out in the middle of the Columbia Gorge is Beacon Rock. The basalt core of a long gone volcano. Just 101 years ago, an industrious person build a path to the top of it. The view is great!

I was fortunate to catch Airbnb Tech Talk: Experience More recent presentation on their new “Experiences” addition to their business plan. “Experiences” are complete travel packages by local experts from one activity to ones lasting for several days: hotel, food and adventures at one price. At a high level they talk about the data related to “Experiences” in general down to how do you help a grandmother in Rome price and market a pasta cooking class?

These are simply hosted on Facebook!

Every once in awhile there is a super interesting YouTube video. To me, this one is perfect: great storytelling, great graphics and a larger-than-life story told from a perspective I never considered.

Like many articles from the Harvard Business Review, Susie Peppercorn’s July 26, 2019 column is wonderfully thought provoking. Here are her first two paragraphs:

“So much is written about happiness at work — yet judging from Gallup statistics that show 85% of employees aren’t engaged, few know how to attain it. Given that the average person spends 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime, it’s important to figure out how to feel better about the time you spend earning a living. Here’s the catch, though: If you set happiness as your primary goal, you can end up feeling the opposite. This is because happiness (like all emotions) is a fleeting state, not a permanent one. An alternative solution is to make meaning your vocational goal.

As author Emily Esfahani Smith has outlined, people who focus on meaning in their personal and professional lives are more likely to feel an enduring sense of well-being. Research shows that making work more meaningful is one of the most powerful and underutilized ways to increase productivity, engagement, and performance. In one survey of 12,000 employees, 50% said they didn’t get a feeling of meaning and significance from their work, but those who did reported 1.7 times greater job satisfaction, were 1.4 times more engaged, and were more than three times as likely to remain with their current employer.”

“Why You Should Stop Trying to be Happy at Work”

Every Friday morning the New York Times Cooking section publishes “Five Weeknight Dishes” so you have time to gather the usually simple ingredients to a set of 5 quick to make meals. The August 16, 2019 column by Emily Weinstein included:
1 Lemon and Thyme Grilled Chicken Breasts
2 Caprese Antipasto
3 Skirt Steak With Salsa Verde Salad
4 Spicy Clams With Garlicky Toasts
5 Chickpea Salad With Fresh Herbs and Scallions

Yes, you too can subscribe to “Five Weeknight Dishes” without having a NYT cooking subscription. Just click on the graphic.

This is another great site I noticed:

opendatascience.com

Specifically this August 12, 2019 article by the ODS Team was bluntly clear. “7 Reasons Why Your Data Science Resume is Suboptimal“.

On their list of things to review:
1 Know the Code
2 Low Probability
3 Cleaning Up
4 Machiavellian Matters
5 Do Good
6 Too Little, Too Late
7 What’s Your Problem

Then there were two bonus items:
8 It’s All Relevant
9 Optimize It

I’ll definitely be going to the local PDX meetup group gatherings!!