Tag: culture
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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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How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle – “if you’re not able to carve out even 20 minutes for yourself, then something needs to change in your life.” // Tools that find the priorities are hard: “We hear a lot about how to optimize for productivity, but what we don’t have is the…
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I used to be from here
Things expats notice when they’re back in America The night of arrival, at Stiles Switch. We go back to Texas each year for Christmas. You see things differently when you’ve been away for a long time. Here’s some from this year: Waymo everywhere, in Austin. So much yoghurt. Grown ass adults going to the store…
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Tech Brats Turning 30 – “It’s easy to find yourself wondering about the conditions that made that meeting of minds possible and about all the things you could accomplish in your own life if every distraction were removed and you could sit at a desk undisturbed for long enough. Then I realize that what I…
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“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study – ”Key features of Machiavelli’s personality come out: he can be as vulgar as the villagers; he bickers with them, delighting in puns and innuendos. Minutely attuned to their foibles and peccadillos, nothing is lost on him. He deprecates his now…
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– From Agile to Radical: conflict – How management can deal with: “There are at least three consequences of unresolved conflict that I’ve experienced in practice: unaddressed business areas, repeated patterns of unproductive behavior and undoing each other’s progress.” // A little bit on European work-culture too.
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Need to contemplate the difference and overlap between “being genuine” and “being a jackass.”
Detroit, 2015. Wastebook “I’m still in my pajamas — haven’t changed since Tuesday night. I’m also drinking a fair amount…” ProfG. “My conspiracy theory has a much higher budget.” Lordess. “To create this post, I used a cascade of AIs.” Tomasz Tunguz. “improvident” is an adjective meaning lacking foresight or failing to plan ahead, often…
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– Unleashing Transformation – Yup, this all of the stuff. Arguably, it’s missing #8: actually do it and stop blaming “culture.”
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