Toots from 2023-08-18
“So, could it be that where everybody is seeking technological innovation, it’s management inno…
“So, could it be that where everybody is seeking technological innovation, it’s management innovation that is also sorely needed? Could it be that if we stop relying on old outdated systems, explicitly designed for conformity and control, that people will actually more often do what leads to previously unimaginable businesses—without losing their minds in the process?”
https://hagakure.substack.com/p/th62-where-theres-a-will-theres-a
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What is missing is whether AI tools are applied or relevant to “productivity hot spots” for e…
What is missing is whether AI tools are applied or relevant to “productivity hot spots” for existing systems. The domain/data/environment specific issues that demand the most time and are the least generic.
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-next-generation-of-developer-productivity/
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“In the anonymous story that Tanya tells, and in mine, glue work is not considered to be promot…
“In the anonymous story that Tanya tells, and in mine, glue work is not considered to be promotable. Which still strikes me as counterintuitive given that “glue work is the difference between a project that succeeds and one that fails”!”
https://juliaferraioli.com/blog/2023/influential-articles-jul/
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“There are both positive and negative second-order consequences of any complex decision. If the…
“There are both positive and negative second-order consequences of any complex decision. If these aren’t identified—in particular, if the problematic consequences aren’t embraced within the strategy—then it’s not a clear decision. “
https://longform.asmartbear.com/great-strategy/
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What’s happening when nothing is happening is also happening before something happened. “The…
What’s happening when nothing is happening is also happening before something happened.
“The argument is that there are no special ‘error producing’ processes that magically begin to work when an accident is going to happen, but which otherwise lie dormant. On the contrary, there are no fundamental differences between performance that leads to failures and performance that leads to successes.”
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I really enjoy reading Erik Hollnagel