Mark Forster:

The most distinctive feature of FV is the way that its algorithm is primarily based on psychological readiness—this then opens the way to keeping urgency and importance in the best achievable balance.

I’m a sucker for productivity systems. I like the simplicity of this one.

Cal Paterson:

A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.

Also check out Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business.

Ryan Singer:

The counterintuitive thing is, we often feel like our task is to get to a “yes.” But what we actually need is a way to say “no.” It’s the ability to eliminate many, many things that aligns us on the one thing. It’s the “no, no, no, … YES!” that gives us the power to move forward and to stick with a project.

To help us to eliminate (not forever, but for the purpose of making a decision now) I’ve found one technique very helpful. The trick is to flip things around. Instead of describing the good that will happen by doing an idea, we look at what goes wrong when we don’t do it. To make that flip, we can ask two simple questions:

1. Knowing the customer can’t do what’s in the idea today, What are they doing instead?
2. What’s bad about that?

Donella Meadows (via James Clear):

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

The art of naming what’s happening in the room to get things back on track.

I’m not a fan of the word “learnings” either.

Life wisdom from The Marginalian.

The side-by-side comparison between a standard M and the redesign is fascinating.

Fascinating deep dive into hitting and overcoming the scaling issues affecting the sync engine Linear built.

Tara Seshan:

For years, communicating tradeoffs to senior leaders was one of my biggest challenges. While presenting the pros and cons between two priorities, I’d somehow always end up committing to doing both, and in less time than I had planned. As you’d expect, this usually went … badly. I’d burn myself out or, worse, burn out my team.

But when I started managing, I finally understood why I had been so ineffective at it. Sitting on the other side of the table, I watched others make the same mistakes I had. I realized I hadn’t been framing tradeoffs correctly.

John Brayton:

Similarly there is a new optional Next Article menu item for the swipe left menu of the article view on iPhone and iPad. To enable it, open the Settings screen, select Articles under Basic Options, and turn on Next Article under Basic Actions.

I tend to do a continuous scroll through my unread article list each day on my phone and often want to skip over long articles I’m not interested in.

This new action does the trick.

I’ve used this a few times now and it’s pretty ace.

I use Moom for window management on macOS.

Version four has loads of new features I’m keen to try.

Charity Majors:

Success in business is what earns you the right to devote more time, attention, and resources to cultural issues, and to experiment with things that matter to you.

One of the most common ways that leaders fail is that they get so bogged down in the daily chaos of running the company, managing a team, raising money, responding to crises and scoring OKRs is that they struggle to keep the focus zeroed in on the most important thing: succeeding at your mission.

Jim Grey:

Relationships matter if you want to advance. It took me until about ten years ago to start to understand how building relationships across any company I work for is critical if I want to move up, and even remain employed when times are tough. I’ve found that being relentlessly helpful to others, even in things that aren’t strictly your responsibility, keeps you as someone everybody wants on the team. And when you push for a promotion, you have a base of people across the company who think you’re awesome. It greases the skids.