Editor’s Note This is the ninth issue of Yak Talk, Yak Collective’s weekly email newsletter. The newsletter started mid-June, from an observation that Yak should probably have a newsletter. For the first few weeks, I did my best to simply curate applicable links w/r/t the output of Yak Collective, and the blog/email list writings of it’s members. Around the fourth or fifth issue of Yak Talk, a team coalesced: Grigori Milov, as our resident senior consultant, and voice of quality control...