Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: culture

148 bookmarks tagged “culture

Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?

There Is No A.I.

newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

An app can be a home-cooked meal

robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
Peo­ple don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more peo­ple learn to cook so they can eat bet­ter, or more affordably. Because they want to carry on a tradition. Some­times they learn because they’re bored! Or even because — get this — they love spend­ing time with the per­son who’s teaching them.

The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense | Financial Times

ft.com/content/a09a2ade-4d14-47c2-9cca-599b3c25a33f
If your staff turn up every day, do exactly what you ask of them, but don’t go above and beyond, they are still working

Quality Is Systemic - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/
If your team is producing defective code, consider that it may not be because they all suck at their jobs. It’s probably because the environment isn’t allowing them to produce quality software.

Why public chats are better than direct messages - Teamplify blog

teamplify.com/blog/why-public-chats-are-better-than-direct-messages/
As a result, when you send a direct message, you distract your colleague, but when you post a message in a group chat, you don't distract them (unless you mention someone explicitly via @). From our experience, the vast majority of work questions are not so urgent that they require an immediate response. Most topics can be discussed asynchronously – you post a question when you have time, and your teammates will respond when they have time. It greatly helps to minimize distractions,...

Official myths | A Working Library

aworkinglibrary.com/writing/official-myths
Let’s engage with office culture as it really is, not how we imagine it used to be.

All Remote

about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
GitLab is one of the world's largest all-remote companies

The Design of Everyday Things — Book Summary & Notes | Elvis Chidera

elvischidera.com/2022-06-24-design-everyday-things
This is my summary and notes from The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Please use the link if you decide to buy the book after…

AddyOsmani.com - Software Engineering - The Soft Parts

addyosmani.com/blog/software-engineering-soft-parts/
Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...

High performance individuals and teams | Pablasso

pablasso.com/high-performance-individuals-and-teams/
Growing up, the only thing that put me off while learning software development, was the common occurrence of people who cared more about one…