Start Up No.2658: John Ternus on design, CDC blocks Covid vaccine study, the approaching energy disaster, post-scarcity?, and more

Triathletes get into cold water carefully because their bodies are liable to an autonomic reaction on immersion that could kill them – as it does other people. CC-licensed photo by rick on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 10 links for you. Brr. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Letter #327: John Ternus’s commencement speech (2024) • A Letter A Day Kevin Gee with the transcript of incoming Apple CEO John Ternus’s commencement speech at Penn Engineering in 2024: » My first project at Apple was the Cinema Display. It was a large desktop monitor. It had a beautiful clear plastic enclosure that was held together with some screws coming in from the back. These screws were made of stainless steel, and the head of every screw was machined to…