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Before paul graham’s essay was Joel Spolsky’s blog (cofounder of Stack Overflow and Trello). This blog post was so iconic when I was at Red Hat that we used it as a guide when designing the fit-out of the Brisbane office that expanded over additional floors over the years. Private pods and offices rather than open plan. It was bliss. Tech Threads

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Software interfaces undervalue peripheral vision! (a thread) My physical space is full of subtle cues. Books I read or bought most recently are lying out. Papers are lying in stacks on my desk, roughly arranged by their relationships. https://t.co/ee7lo0mdLv

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The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.

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There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can

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For a raw and nostalgic look at software development, Kieran recommends Jordan Mechner ’s The Making of Prince of Persia —the original game development journals. Willie suggests How We Got Here by Andy Kessler , a 20-year-old book about power and computation innovations that frames today’s AI and data center headlines in historical context. Kate... See more

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A flipped office would work the same way, knowledge work (the vast and blurry category most appropriate for remote work) happens from home offices and perhaps hyperlocal coworking spaces, while some meetings, workshops, and lighter work more easily done in a shared space, happens at the office.

The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.

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