Your company needs Junior devs
softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniorsJunior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate
Words on Founder Mode – Rands in Repose
randsinrepose.com/archives/words-on-founder-mode/Graham hints at some of the attributes of Founder Mode but mostly says it’s not a well-defined. It is. Founder Mode is the culture of a company and a culture is defined by the character of the founders. Here are the values I’ve discovered over and over again working with these humans:
Home — Colossal
thisiscolossal.com/Check out books in the Colossal Shop ‘Groundswell’ Celebrates the Pioneering Women who Changed Land Art Two Decades After Its Release, ‘The Art Book for Children’ Gets a Vibrant Makeover Thandiwe Muriu’s ‘Camo’ Celebrates the Multi-Faceted Beauty of Kenyan Culture ‘Bird’ Flies Through the Avian World from Art and Design to History and Ornithology OpportunitiesContinue reading "Home"
Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company’s True Culture
praachi.work/blog/questions-to-ask-in-a-job-interviewUncover the true culture of a tech company by asking the right questions during your interview. Learn how to assess company values, employee support, and growth opportunities to ensure the perfect fit.
Adam Curtis on the Dangers of Self-Expression
thecreativeindependent.com/people/adam-curtis-on-the-dangers-of-self-expression/BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self-expression.
The Magic of Bird Brains
newyorker.com/science/elements/the-magic-of-bird-brainsCrows are smart enough to pick up trash. Why won’t they?
Germany adds Berlin’s techno scene to Unesco cultural heritage list | Germany | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-listList recognises techno scene’s contribution to Berlin’s cultural identity
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
brettscott.substack.com/p/tech-doesnt-make-our-lives-easierBreaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation
What Was the TED Talk?
thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/“TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. It is a seemingly endless index of stories about the future – the future of science, the future of the environment, the future of work, the future of love and sex, the future of what it means to be human – that never materialized. ... If the research wasn’t entertaining or moving, it was seen as somehow less valuable. TED’s influence on intellectual culture was ‘taking something with value and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing’, Bratton said. ‘This is not the solution to our most frightening problems – rather, this is one of our most frightening problems.’”
Cruising in the Trenches
the-fence.com/cruising-in-the-trenches/Fucking under curfew.
Column: Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you | Reuters
reuters.com/article/us-column-great-debate/column-why-a-medieval-peasant-got-more-vacation-time-than-you-idUKBRE97S0KU20130829Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic. His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired. But despite his reputation as a miserable wretch, you might envy him one thing: his vacations...
Blue Marriage and The Terror of Divorce
annehelen.substack.com/p/blue-marriage-and-the-terror-of-divorceThis is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. If you read any of the hundreds of advice columns that have found renewed life on the internet, you’ll recognize a certain genre of question. It comes from a woman, almost always married, who’s describing a partner’s shitty behavior. They often narrativize the behavior in a way that simultaneously asks the reader to understand that something is wrong (
Amia Srinivasan · Cancelled: Can I speak freely? · LRB 29 June 2023
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n13/amia-srinivasan/cancelledMost of us would find it horrible to be told that we aren’t worth engaging with, that our views are socially...