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.

the research is clear: Telling people what we think of their performance doesn’t help them thrive and excel, and telling people how we think they should improve actually hinders learning.

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The only realm in which humans are an unimpeachable source of truth is that of their own feelings and experiences.

Chris Rackliff:

Speaking of lifting others up, your core group of friends can make or break your life. And your participation can make or break theirs as well.

Matt Linderman:

Instead of working with a thing you love, think about how to work in a way you love.

This is totally my bag.

Still trying to learn how to think better.

Cindy Sridharan quoting Joe Armstrong:

We should identify the error kernel. The error kernel of a system is that part which must be correct. That’s what the error kernel is. All the other code can be incorrect, it doesn’t matter. The error kernel is the part of the system that must be correct. If it’s incorrect, then all bets are off. The error kernel must be correct.