innovation culture
WTF Happened In 1971?
wtfhappenedin1971.com
Introducing Clay - High Performance UI Layout in C
youtube.comC based react alternative in a way, but native to every environment ?
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
My longer-term agenda is to re-imagine and refactor bureaucratic functions and patterns into decentralized... See more
Venkatesh Rao on Substack
Conway’s Law is so commonly referenced in Silicon Valley at this point it’s almost a meme. But I still don’t think we take it seriously enough. Because your product will be a mirror of your teams. You will ship your org chart.
Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on Designing Your Team
- Rewire your patterns
The most empowering thing I’ve heard is that there is a gap between stimulus and response, and that the key to both our growth and happiness is how we use and expand that space.
Our responses typically come from patterns and scripts handed down from our parents and our pasts. We are not hostage to those patterns, we can update... See more
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To sabotage the mindless saboteurs who are following the CIA’s manual, here are some new instructions:
01. ELI5 (Explain Like I’m Five) : Play dumb. Require over-simplification in the recommendation. Request or provide a super basic answer to help strip jargon and complexity. If it doesn’t make sense to a five year old, it won’t ever make sense.... See more
01. ELI5 (Explain Like I’m Five) : Play dumb. Require over-simplification in the recommendation. Request or provide a super basic answer to help strip jargon and complexity. If it doesn’t make sense to a five year old, it won’t ever make sense.... See more
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
And I guess I don’t understand why anyone expects AI to make highly profitable quasi-monopolies even more profitable. How much bigger can the market for Office or Google search get? I understand that these companies feel the need to invest in AI for defensive purposes, to fend off potential competitors. But this need should if anything make them... See more
Paul Krugman • Have We Been Partying Like It’s 1999?
What happens when you give a load of engineers a brief? I always ask the question: What would’ve happened if you hadn’t given the brief for High Speed 2 to a load of engineering firms who immediately focused on speed, time, distance, capacity? What if you’d given the brief to Disney instead?
They would’ve said, “First of all, we’re going to rewrite... See more
They would’ve said, “First of all, we’re going to rewrite... See more