36 important life and work lessons a top tech executive learned before turning 30
The days are long but the decades are short.
How Priorities Make Things Happen
Editor: Project manager and writer Scott Berkun knows how to get things done when you've got a team of people, a to-do list, and a deadline. Today h
The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
Problem Framing
Explore a problem space and formulate a robust problem statement to ensure you’re solving the right problem. Time: 45+minutes Group Size: 2+ people Level: Intermediate
Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency
Deeptech, and the arts are stunted because, in my opinion, we don’t have enough ‘shots on goal’. If the 80/20 rule is true, then tech and…
Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman
The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
Brendan Carr Crafting ‘Patriotic’ Call Center Onshoring Plan To Provide Cover For Mass Looming Telecom Layoffs
When he’s not busy trampling free speech, crushing the First Amendment, and destroying media consolidation and consumer protection standards, Brendan Carr has other hobbies. Like helping the …
Raising An Agent Episode - Episode 10
Where do IC designers go once they peak? — Tanner Christensen's blog
On why senior individual-contributor designers shouldn't have to move into management to grow—and how the industry can build a real IC leadership track.
The Architect of Constraints: Why Context Engineering Is the Human Skill That Matters
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes solving it.” — Albert Einstein
depatchedmode/oughta
How we oughta do things. Skills, conventions, and guidance for coding agents.
It's the 21st century – why are we working so much? | Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley: The right calls for hard work, the left for more jobs. The dream of mechanisation leading to shorter working hours seems forgotten
High agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century. This essay is what I wish I read at 18, rather than writing at 30. Join me in the high agency rabbit hole.
The following is from an essay which will be coming out later this year, but it's so relevant to this moment, I'm just going to excerpt a little section. Please read the whole essay when it comes out! "While the asset class’s thought leaders, such as BlackRock CEO Larry Fink... 1/18
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Just saw BlackRock ceo warning that data center moratorium would trigger a massive recession, which is fear mongering. And also hahahahahahhahahahaaaa.
