Going direct The org chart does not control the flow of communication. In fact, you're faster if you ignore it entirely.

theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/going-dire...

When Did All of These People Become Therapists? As AI threatens creative careers, writers, actors and musicians are pivoting to pursue master’s degrees in psychology and social work. “The industry I grew up in has fallen apart.”

When Did All of These People Become Therapists?

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

What is a "COE" at Amazon? It stands for "Correction of Errors" (similar to a postmortem - though it's named like this for good reason!)

Because of the scale of Amazon, reading these COEs was super educational (and interesting!). Steve Huynh was at Amazon for 17 years, and learned a ton from these:

Step-by-step guide to writing a will Writing a will might sound like something reserved for the wealthy or elderly. But as many legal experts and personal finance professionals emphasize,

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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Abraham Lincoln

The Next Great Distribution Shift Thank you to Casey Winters, Aaron White, Dan Hockenmaier, Fareed Mosavat and Adam Fishman for reading early versions of this and providing feedback.

The Next Great Distribution Shift
blog.brianbalfour.com/p/the-next-g...

Opinion | The Subversive Joy of BookTok

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

A whistleblower claims that Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is flawed. The FAA is investigating | CNN Business Federal authorities say they’re investigating after a whistleblower repeatedly raised concerns with two models of Boeing widebody jets, and claimed the company retaliated against him.

www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/b... #SafetyFirst

The seductive trap: When AI's greatest gift to product is its costliest pitfall There's an electricity in the room when a team sees something work for the first time—not the kind of "it compiles" success, but a real, felt leap forward.

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Leading From The Front Don't look back.

staysaasy.com/management/2... #leading

Change your mindset before its too late YouTube video by Kubesimplify Hindi

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTGR...

The Proof Economy » Anand Sanwal Grades and GPAs are dead currency. In the Proof Economy, your kid’s future depends on one thing: what they’ve actually built.

anandsanwal.me/the-proof-ec...

www.seangoedecke.com/what-makes-s...

8 Steps to Convert Your Timeline Roadmap to a Now-Next-Later | ProdPad If you want to ditch the timeline but don't know where to start, here are 8 simple steps to convert it to a Now-Next-Later roadmap.

www.prodpad.com/blog/convert...

signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-g...?

Intimacy on Autopilot: Why AI Companions Demand Urgent Regulation | TechPolicy.Press The commodification of intimacy creates a facsimile of friendship or romance not to support users, but to monetize them, writes J.B. Branch.

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....do I have a sticker for that? 🤔

Hah, of course I do.

On the cyclic benefits of intermittent fasting and metabolic switching, this is an outstanding new perspective @naturemetabolism.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.

Psychological safety REQUIRES:

* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down

nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-...

💯

Grok 3 on Elon Musk So you said you wanted the truth...

asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/grok-3-on-...

Nostalgia, by Hania Rani 9 track album

🎧 My 10 favorite live albums of 2024

1. Hania Rani, "Nostalgia"

Haunting, deeply emotional synth-pop, electronic minimalism, & minimal house recorded at Witold Lutosławski's Concert Studio at the Polish Radio in Warsaw with an 8-piece string ensemble

1/10

haniarani.bandcamp.com/album/nostal...

Example usage of embedding SQLite inside a Postgres database table.

Just when I thought I've seen it all, a PostgreSQL extension shows up that allows you to embed a SQLite database inside a table. github.com/frectonz/pgl...

Throwback to this drunk don comic I drew

FWIW this person in a leadership position has never seen it work and was hoping I can tell them how to make it work

I cannot, because the only time I saw it "work:" it was full teams (with leadership!) based in the same region/country, given full autonomy and authority over their work