The secrets of the world’s happiest cities:
Stutzer and Frey found that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office.
Tag: work
Empowerment is Dead; Long Live Empowerment. Interesting thoughts on leadership from the founder of HolacracyOne.
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”).
the goal of commercial software development isn’t to create code you love—it’s to create products your customers will love.
The three axes of engineering leadership. The Lead, The People Manager, and The Coach; engineering leadership as a three-pronged model.
There are three leaders. I’m going to describe these three archetypes in a hypothetical large company, but I believe aspects of them exist in all groups of people working together on a collective goal.
Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading:
I sometimes characterize Medium as content matchmaking: we want people to write, and others to read, great posts. It’s two-sided: one can’t exist without the other. What is the core activity that connects the two sides? It’s reading. Readers don’t just view a page, or click an ad. They read.
Lessons on Leading. 10 lessons on leadership from an early Pandora executive. Good ideas with interesting anecdotes.
My Irrelevance Strategy. An interesting story of handing over responsibility from the founder of nGen Works.
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs:
There is a whole class of salaried professionals that, should you meet them at parties and admit that you do something that might be considered interesting (an anthropologist, for example), will want to avoid even discussing their line of work entirely. Give them a few drinks, and they will launch into tirades about how pointless and stupid their job really is.