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19 links, first saved September 16, 2021, latest October 23, 2025.
- When design drives behavior
Non-linear gauge to drive the outcome that is best. Delightful example.
- To the crazy ones
I watched the replay of the Starship launch and it truly a marvel. It was incredible watching the booster return to the earth and the launch pad catching it with these giant…
- The Teenage Engineering TP-7
I had never heard of the TP-7 but it looks like an incredible piece of engineering.
- Don't delegate your word
I've followed this approach 99% of the time. But there’s one thing you should hold tight and never let go. It’s the thing that should never be delegated. It’s your voice. Speak…
- The Musk Algorithm
Hansson was intrigued by the same section in the Musk Biography that caught my eye and commented about in Weekly Thing 261 . He elaborates further on it from the book, which I…
- Clear the barnacles
- Staying in the arena
- We need not all be connected, all the time
Less is more.
- Manage process before people
Great examples of system thinking to make organizations more effective and efficient.
- Cloud exit pays off in performance too
I've been following Hansson's posts of their exit from AWS onto their own bare-metal. It is Apples and Oranges comparison, and Hansson is as usual far too binary in his…
- Founder & CEO is kinda a BS title
This article frames these roles in nearly comically overstated way. I disagree with the framing entirely. Great CEO's do much more than "executing diligently" as he suggests, and…
- Uptime Guarantees — A Pragmatic Perspective
Reminder to consider the cost of increased availability, and make sure that the tradeoffs make sense.
- Reply to Everyone — How we built something useful
I’m not going to move email, but a feature like this would be nice for a small set of circumstances.
- How to have buckets of time
An interesting approach to serializing work into chunks to improve efficiency and reduce task switching. This is very GTD-friendly. These buckets could easily be GTD contexts.
- We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
This analysis is comparing a lot of 🍎 and 🍊, but it is still a worthwhile read. What I like here is not just assuming that for all workloads the cloud is the best approach. For…
- The new normal
- On company size
When Musk came into Twitter and started firing people by the thousands it brought a lot of attention to how many employees and contractors Twitter actually had. In the case of…
- Collaborating away
Jason Fried on the various ways that he experiences collaboration. This is one of those topics that comes up a lot when we think about distributed work. I've experienced great…
- Your likes, hearts, and flattering comments are bad for my brain
All of the trivial feedback loops that social platforms have introduced to our world are fundamentally addictive tools to increase your engagement. Additionally though they change…