Empowerment is Dead; Long Live Empowerment. Interesting thoughts on leadership from the founder of HolacracyOne.
Month: December 2013
Every value we had articulated came with an “anti-value” of something else — a bias towards one side of a pole, and a push-against the other. Thus is the nature of values — for example, valuing “adaptability” means we’re de-valuing whatever we think of as its opposite. Yet while we often think of this opposite negatively (e.g. “rigidity”), the same energy we’re rejecting can come out with a useful expression as well (e.g. “stability”).
Good to the Last Drop. A look at the impact caffeine consumption can have on endurance runners.
Software Is Reorganizing the World:
In this sense, the future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
I genuinely believe that the biggest part of the belief in a STEM shortage results from our cultural obsession with technology and our perpetual belief that it will cure all of our ills.
What I learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school:
It’s true that if your business is taking off you’re going to get lots of investor interest and lots of press opportunities. But lots of investor interest and press does not create a successful business.
The Sun on Sunday lied about me last week. Have they learned nothing?
We are dealing with experts in propaganda who will stop at nothing to see their version of events prevail, and on the rare occasions when the truth emerges, like a hernia popping through gorged corpse, they apologise discreetly for their ignoble flatulence in a mouse-sized font for hippo-sized lies.
Russell Brand appears to be a lot more intelligent than I previously gave him credit for.
At some point in every software development project the question of velocity vs. quality inevitably comes up. The idea being that cutting some corners will allow you to move faster and get to your goal sooner.
This is a topic I have wrestled with over the years and have come to believe that the argument itself is a dangerous false dichotomy, and that reframing the discussion can lead to both a better product and a faster moving team.
Why it’s time to lay the selfish gene to rest. Surprise, the biology you learned in high school isn’t necessarily correct.
the goal of commercial software development isn’t to create code you love—it’s to create products your customers will love.