a rationalization for bad behavior (more)

Doctor's Orders, by Jason Blakely. A piece that's not entirely wrong, but mostly argued in bad-faith. (more)

periodic bug, edible (see eating cicadas)

Fred Hebert: Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops. Instead I decided to follow my gut feeling and go with what I think really explains my perspective and the approach I bring with me to work and even my life in general (more)

‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living. ...the Eroski retail chain is part of Mondragon Corporation, the largest industrial co-op in the world. As a fully signed-up member, Fernández co-owns part of the supermarket chain that also employs her. (Mondragon Cooperatives) (more)

Similar to MetaCognition (but with more Iteration, Deliberate Practice) and Critical Thinking (but with more Self Awareness). (more)

Installing and running Python: the bare minimum you can get away with. Installing and running Python on a Apple Macintosh. (more)

Python preferred virtual environment manager - see (2023-03-27) BiteCode on Python installation and packaging esp on Mac

Stephen Farrugia: The Aura of Care. False Legitimacy Gained Through UX. In November 2022, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, began a tweet thread with “I’ve heard you loud and clear” in response to a customer backlash over the way they hid additional costs till the checkout page (more)

Instapaper update: Summaries, Custom Article Actions, Obsidian Integration, and More. Today we’re launching Instapaper 8.6 for iOS and macOS, which includes Summaries to quickly get a snapshot of an article, Custom Article Actions to customize the toolbar in the article view, and many more new features (more)

TOPLAP: Bret Victor on Live Coding. Bret Victor has another insightful essay up about “learnable coding”, which he says is an “immune response” to people saying his previous (also excellent) video was “about live coding”. He goes as far to say that live coding is “almost worthless” on its own. (more)

Unproductive Polarising Extremes. The ability to form groups or tribes is a critical function of being a mammal (more)

Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again. Google is delaying the end of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser — again (more)

Clay Shirky on the Healthcare.gov Project Failure as the responsibility of delusional Management. The idea that “Failure is not an option” is a fantasy version of how non-engineers should motivate engineers... Failure is always an option. Engineers work as hard as they do because they understand the risk of failure. And for anything it might have meant in its screenplay version, here that sentiment means the opposite; the unnamed executives were saying “Addressing the possibility of failure is not an option.”... The project’s managers weren’t avoiding those failures. They were saving them up... The problem with Healthcare.gov was not timeline or budget. The problem was that the site did not work, and the administration decided to launch it anyway. This is not just a hiring problem, or a procurement problem. This is a management problem, and a cultural problem. (more)

Scott Alexander: Things That Sometimes Help If You Have Depression. first I’m going to talk about figuring out if you need help. Then I’m going to recommend you see a psychiatrist. Then I’m going to accept that in reality a lot of people for whatever reason can’t or won’t see a psychiatrist, and grudgingly recommend some lifestyle interventions you can make. Then I’m going to accept that in reality a lot of people for whatever reason can’t or won’t make lifestyle interventions, and grudgingly recommend some over-the-counter medications and supplements that might be helpful. (more)

magic blame for everything?

time management technique

Hiten Shah: Why Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit. If any company has product/market fit, it’s Zoom. Right?... Except Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit or high customer satisfaction. (more)

Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable — the market has its valuation all wrong, says Adam Schwab. Until a few months ago, no company had created more wealth for its shareholders than Sydney-grown Atlassian. At its peak in October 2021, the Nasdaq-listed business was valued $162 billion. ($445/share) (Jun'2022 low $178/sh; 2023 low $118/sh) (more)

was Micro ISV, now (since 2010) mainly founder of WPEngine - http://blog.asmartbear.com/jason-cohen (more)