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Startups, he argues, can be engineered in the same way. “Startups excel when they put all their energy into one main thing ,” he says. “If you want to hit escape velocity, your startup should be designed to focus on that. In other words, it better taste good. But if your startup is designed to have several teams all equal in size, where’s your... See more

Nan Yu • Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on Designing Your Team

at an institution, you can’t just do what is best, you also have to build trust and coordinate with others so you are on the same page. This, however, doesn’t mean that you should abdicate your judgment and get in line.

I like the approach Sholto Douglas expressed in his interview with Dwarkesh Patel:

If I’m trying to write some code and something

Henrik Karlsson • 6 Lessons I Learned Working at an Art Gallery

I propose six significant levels of pace and size in the working structure of a robust and adaptable civilization. From fast to slow the levels are: - Fashion/art - Commerce- Infrastructure- Governance- Culture- Nature

Stewart Brand • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Strategy exists to force a disciplined choice to deploy scarce resources for maximum impact. Regardless of the size of a company, the resource pool and capacity to get work done is always constrained relative to the universe of work that could be done—making this choice a critical decision in every single context.

Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Introducing Clay - High Performance UI Layout in C

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C based react alternative in a way, but native to every environment ?

But the choice of a main programming language is the most important signaling behavior that a technology company can engage in. Tell me that you program in Java, and I believe you to be either serious or boring. In Ruby, and you are interested in building things quickly. In Clojure, and I think you are smart but wonder if you ship. In Python, and I... See more

PAUL FORD • Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg

Free market logic describes how the laws of supply and demand incentivize providing the best goods at the lowest prices. But custom means economic decisions are made unthinkingly, outsourced to tradition, which might be political, ideological, or even aesthetic in origin. By law and in practice, the entire U.S. banking system has been fully... See more

Samo Burja • 27 Insights From Three Years of Bismarck Brief

Kinda want to launch an unironic, on-the-nose pro-bureaucracy discourse. Not even an apologia or defense, just straight up “bureaucracy is actually good and you morons trying to tear it down have no idea what you’re talking about or doing”

My longer-term agenda is to re-imagine and refactor bureaucratic functions and patterns into decentralized... See more

Venkatesh Rao on Substack

I’m really proud of the product development process we have shaped at Bellroy. It combines art and science, intuition and logic, frames it with Agile Methodologies, and eschews ego in a way that sparks genuine collaboration.

When we began shaping it, we looked at the great innovation brands and confirmed that they all had strong in-house prototyping