rob hardy

Conway’s Law:

‘For any organization that builds systems, the systems they produce reflect the communication structures of that organization.’

If your organization is inefficient and disjointed, or dictatorial and myopic, it shows in your products.

Salmon don’t have a cosmic story that they talk about. They are born into the world and they instinctively know the direction in which they need to swim. It’s built into their DNA, inherent in their being. People, on the other hand, need stories that are created and expressed through culture in order for us to find our way forward.

Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.

Dostoevsky, unlike most other authors, treats his characters as full individuals, as if they are too big to fit in his head: he isn’t using them as mouth pieces but is listening to them. His books are polyphonic: they are made up of a multitude of voices, each with their own inner logic and perspective, and there is no voice that stands above the... See more

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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

The role of art is to embody virtue