Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “culture”

Overengineering can kill your product - Mind the Product

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In today's post, Simón Muñoz speaks about one of the most prevalent issues when creating products: overengineering them.

Why is flaking so widespread in San Francisco? | devonzuegel.com

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In an email exchange with Brian Lui, he asked me an interesting question about the rate of flaking in San Francisco: I had a brief question too. I've read that the rate of "flaking" in San Francisco is really high, because everyone is so busy and...

Normalization of deviance

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At large company B (LCB), ICs agreed that it's problematic to reward creating new features more richly than doing critical grunt work. When I talked to managers, they often agreed, too. But nevertheless, the people who get promoted are disproportionately those who ship shiny new things. I saw management attempt a number of cultural and process changes at LCB. Mostly, those took the form of pronouncements from people with fancy titles. For really important things, they might produce a...

Culturally transmitted skills and values

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My Heroku values

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My Heroku values. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic

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Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

The Upcoming Remote Work Company Culture War - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

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Anyway, Anderson is not the first, nor will she be remotely the last, person to bemoan the fact that people don’t want to go back to the office, and in my tiny little walnut brain I am imagining that we’re about to see, as vaccinations climb and people return to normal, a culture war between those that believe workers should be in the office and those who believe that there should be a “hybrid approach,” by which they most likely mean you get a few days a week at home. It’ll start by...