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Teams of APMs were each given $50 to buy the weirdest gadgets they could find.

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” — Elbert Hubbard

Nat Eliason • What AI Can't Write

This is end-user programming, a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries.

Szymon Kaliski • https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/

This group size is ideal, because you can break the group into three smaller groups of four and multitrack ideation or solution building.

Jeff Shannon • Lead Engaging Meetings

Don’t be a hero

David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework

Mervin Kelly, Jim Fisk, William Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and William Baker.

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Learn by doing.

Ben Casnocha • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

I don’t believe in overly-strict specialization. It’s too limiting. So, we push our coders to learn how to write well. We encourage our technicians to learn programming. We even bought a laser cutter to help our designers tinker. We push them out of their particular specializations to keep them learning. It’s a little uncomfortable, and sometimes t... See more

Kyle Wiens • In Defense of Polymaths

Blue lasers/Camera pocket guide/Earth in real time

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