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There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one... See more
Nathan Snyder • The Problem with Organization Design
Much of our seeming intelligence actually comes not from raw brainpower or a plethora of instincts, but rather from the accumulated repertoire of mental tools (e.g., integers), skills (differentiating right from left), concepts (fly wheels), and categories (basic color terms) that we inherit culturally from earlier generations.
Joseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Sam Altman: "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt,… Show more
Switching brain state costs energy
"Stable" brain states exist in local energy minima, so there is an energy barrier to overcome to switch from one state to another
Nice summary of relevant papers and work by @DaniSBassett here:
https://t.co/wanGBIwpoX https://t.co/SVnpKl3ATc
On the efficacy of multitasking
Order is important. Better to perform tasks requiring lower activation energy before more demanding ones. Build into it. Switching is expensive.
humanity is still adapting to the fact that ordinary people have broadcasting capability. cultural norms around this are still being negotiated in real time. it’s actually imo more disruptive than promethean fire; you can’t use fire to burn people on the other side of the planet
x.com“Code” by Charles Petzold
codehiddenlanguage.com
this book for sure. it starts so simple. too simple. if-else + loops → … → every conceivable form of software
How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think | Kalzumeus Software
kalzumeus.com
I've probably repeated this one enough.
Excerpt: “Companies are legal fictions which we find convenient to use to move capital around and balance accounting ledgers.“