Peter Coy:

The purpose of quadratic voting is to determine “whether the intense preferences of the minority outweigh the weak preferences of the majority,”

This is something I’d like to try in planning meetings.

We’ve repurposed the idea of a technology tree, popular in many strategy video games, and used that as a vehicle to communicate the Up product roadmap.

It’s effective.

Using Javascript Proxies to provide immutable data with a native feel.

Sarah Leo:

At The Economist, we take data visualisation seriously. Every week we publish around 40 charts across print, the website and our apps. With every single one, we try our best to visualise the numbers accurately and in a way that best supports the story. But sometimes we get it wrong. We can do better in future if we learn from our mistakes — and other people may be able to learn from them, too.

Herb Caudill:

Once you’ve learned enough that there’s a certain distance between the current version of your product and the best version of that product you can imagine, then the right approach is not to replace your software with a new version, but to build something new next to it — without throwing away what you have.

Gregor Hohpe:

First and foremost, autonomous teams need to live with the consequences of their decisions.

Yep.

A tired subject but a solid analogy.

David Gasca:

“Silent Meetings” are meetings where most of the time is spent working and not talking. When done correctly most of the meeting is spent silently working together.

A look at radical transparency at the hedge fund Bridgewater.

The man can tell a story.

I’ve been playing with Sketch.systems a bit already. This post looking into adding verification on top of it.

Paul Biggar:

Dark is a holistic programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure, for building backend web services. It’s aimed at frontend, backend, and mobile engineers.

Soup to nuts.

Tim Winton:

Australia is a place with more land than people, more geography than architecture. But it is not and never has been empty. Few landscapes have been so deeply known.

A post that builds up from simple princples. It looks into React, its programming model, its goals, and the trade offs it takes in solving its design challenges.

Jason Cohen:

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. There are many styles that work. But in a bar fight, you’re going to get punched in the face regardless.

I can only teach you my style. Others can only teach you theirs.

Lots to chew on.