innovation culture
we work in tandem between all disciplines at teenage engineering. the end result when things go well is not a compromise between different points of views but rather a selection of what’s most important for each aspect of a product. when that balance is not found the ideas that didn't make it all the way to a product may later resurface when the
... See moreI think there is a similar fallacy for how we consider engineering organizations. Many of today’s “best practices” have been drawn from long-established internet companies like Google. However, the problem with copying their current practices on the basis of their success is that most of those companies found near-invincible business models that... See more
Moxie Marlinspike • The Magic of Software; Or, What Makes a Good Engineer Also Makes a Good Engineering Organization
This silicon union of intellect and action creates a culture fond of big ideas. The expectation that anyone sufficiently intelligent can grasp, and perhaps master, any conceivable subject incentivizes technologists to become conversant in as many subjects as possible. The technologist is thus attracted to general, sweeping ideas with application... See more
The Scholar's Stage • The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
Every young person (and plenty of non-young people), trying to strike gold and solve problems, is architecting themselves after a dominant personality of our field.
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of... See more
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of... See more
Reggie James • A Land Without Giants
01. Fear of Being Wrong : Our decisions are often driven by Loss Aversion – the cognitive bias that makes us more afraid of failure than excited by potential success. In a world where a single misstep can get us “bollocked,’ we stick with what feels safe, even when it’s clearly not working.
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
There will be future crack-ups and future attempts at radical reform and the possibility of great accomplishments in our time. The current settlement is too sick to be sustainable. But the crucial ingredient that will make the difference will be some new class of elites with a discipline of craft capable of actually achieving the great things you... See more
Wolf Tivy • Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods
echoes of anastasiya’s crisis theories?
Their methods are a bit unorthodox, but Dyevre (2024) uses more standard methods and obtains broadly similar results:
Using a novel firm-level dataset...covering 70 years (1950-2020), I estimate the impact of the decline in public R&D in the US on long-run productivity growth. I use two instrumental variable strategies...to estimate the impact of... See more
What happens when we gut federal science funding?
Jeff Weinstein (Stripe) – Conversations on Quality (Episode 03)
youtube.comWeb developer's oath
Before the exercises, let me remind what you promised at the end of the previous part.
Programming is hard, that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier
Before the exercises, let me remind what you promised at the end of the previous part.
Programming is hard, that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier
- I will have my browser developer console open all the time
- I progress with small steps
- I will write lots of console.log statements to make sure I understand how