innovation culture

I 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

NYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected

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The new high-status thing is being a creative,... See more

Sean X • Tweet

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

When you read biographies of ppl who managed to be highly innovative for a long time, they seem to very radically not optimize in the short term—forgoing obviously lucrative and high status opportunities to do weird stuff that goes nowhere.

Henrik Karlsson substack.com

The reason I've spent so long establishing this rather obvious point [that writing helps you refine your thinking] is that it leads to another that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone

Henrik Karlsson • How to Think in Writing

paul graham

Listen deeply to what people have to say about your brand and your product. The answer key is already in front of us. This is not new, but it is becoming more and more important, and rarely is it being implemented at the right moments, (again, during R&D vs. post-campaign analysis.)

How do we do this? I’ve dubbed it “Layering & Triangulating.”... See more

Matt Klein • Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.

The dream behind the web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished.

Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal Pistory

JavaScript and the Browser :: Eloquent JavaScript

Working hard at the process and being relaxed about the outcome are NOT contradictory -Unknown

Anson Yu's Site

Painting and sculpture are now free, inasmuch as anyone may produce any sort of creation and subsequently display it. In architecture, however, this fundamental freedom, which must be regarded as a precondition for any art, does not exist, for a person must first have a diploma in order to build. Why?

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as... See more