innovation culture
In Part III, they continue to work through the ideas of philosophers Martin Heidegger and René Girard, exploring the metaphysics of both technology and desire. “For both thinkers, salvation doesn’t come from technology itself but from a transcendent outside,” they posit. They then cite Nick Land, the father of accelerationism, whose ideas have sinc... See more
Byrne Hobart • Bubbling Up | ARENA

If you read Influence by Robert Cialdini, what you realize is that many things are successfully sold by opposites. Everybody has one of these, so it must be good. Or: not many people have one of these, so it must be good. You can achieve the same emotional effect with opposite messages. There are two great ways to check into a hotel. One of them is... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
opposite service strategy (barbells)
As I note in that post, the successful examples of “socialism” that people cite — the Scandinavian societies of today — are actually social democracies. They achieved their mixed economies through a slow evolutionary process that was absolutely nothing like the revolutionary upheavals predicted and advocated by Marx.
Noah Smith • Should economists read Marx?
To these three, I’ll add my favorite new idea as a fourth: contraptionism. So that’s the 4Cs of the imperative: Courage, Clarity, Creativity, Contraptionism.
The aesthetic and ethos that we need to guide the construction of a new machine is contraptionism . Because any new societal machine will inevitably be a janky affair, not just at inception, bu... See more
The aesthetic and ethos that we need to guide the construction of a new machine is contraptionism . Because any new societal machine will inevitably be a janky affair, not just at inception, bu... See more
Venkatesh Rao • Between Mandala and Machine
Web 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
Fullstack part2 | Rendering a collection, modules
Instead, such cultural intelligence should be
leading
R&D, innovation and executive strategy.
We’re spending millions
too late
.
We’ve reversed the figure and the ground: We’re spending more time, energy and money on the attempted harmonization of an offering and culture, than we are ensuring whatever’s being produced is
even desired
and produc... See more
leading
R&D, innovation and executive strategy.
We’re spending millions
too late
.
We’ve reversed the figure and the ground: We’re spending more time, energy and money on the attempted harmonization of an offering and culture, than we are ensuring whatever’s being produced is
even desired
and produc... See more
Matt Klein • Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.
in contrast to engineering/mechanical ideas as foundation
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 guarant... See more
Samo Burja • 27 Insights From Three Years of Bismarck Brief
- 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.