Tag: culture
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Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia – three good videos
Three good videos Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so…
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The case for memes as a new form of comics –
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How to increase your surface area for luck – “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might…
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news that stays news – What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with…
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Why Gen X is the real loser generation – I was there for the design meetings. Works as designed. I mean, we had a whole song called “Loser.”
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The work at hand – “Vernacular institutions:” They are more useful than they are legible.
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Why Bro Culture Still Holds Teams Back at Work –
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Getting things “done” in large tech companies – If the executives don’t know you did something cool, you didn’t do something cool. Legible.
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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? – “rather than continuing to treat ADHD as a chronic medical disorder primarily requiring pharmaceutical intervention, it may be more helpful to see it as a situational mismatch between individuals and their environments.”
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Agentic AI Is The Next Competitive Frontier – “CEOs must architect the autonomous enterprise.” // Changing culture, org structure, and how work is done day-to-day. That’s a big ask. It rarely works.
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The Secret History of the Manicule – The Little Hand that’s Everywhere.
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Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination – ”Economics should emphasize the importance of technology as a solution to externality problems and focus less on social coordination.” // Does this apply to IT where we often say “technology is easy, culture is hard.”
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The Hobby’s Cult of Personality – Recap of the problematic stuff in the history of RPGs.
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Do these dual images say anything about your personality? – It doesn’t matter if you saw a rabbit, a vase, or an old woman. // “We didn’t find very much support for the claims, but there were some correlations in our data.”
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One ‘Bad Apple’ Correct Interpretation – On the use and mis-use of “bad apples.”
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”¡A huevo!”
At its core, “a huevo” is an enthusiastic “hell yeah!” or “damn right!” in Mexican slang. It comes from huevo (which literally means “egg” but is also slang for testicles), but the phrase itself is more about confidence, excitement, or inevitability. How It’s Used Agreement or excitement → ”¿Vamos por tacos?” / ”¡A huevo!” (Hell…
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The big idea: what do we really mean by free speech? – What “freedom of speech” means to the asshats: “what they actually want is freedom from the consequences of broadcasting their views.”
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Trumpian policy as cultural policy – Using culture-blitz to incrementally change society.
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Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy’ – This feels similar to the arational RTO mandates. What could possibly be the link between “not enough masculine-energy” and “not enough share-holder value increase”? Is Facebook not “aggressive” enough in online advertising? Are the failings or lack of filling potential due to too much feminine energy? How are…
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