Toots from 2024-01-08
Springer’s per-publication pricing model (nearly $40 USD for a single PDF article from 1989) is a…
Springer’s per-publication pricing model (nearly $40 USD for a single PDF article from 1989) is absurd.
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“In practice, organizations often reserve far too much optionality, trading off theoretical optio…
“In practice, organizations often reserve far too much optionality, trading off theoretical optionality with concretely significantly slower execution. An organization trying to do everything well will do practically nothing at all.”
https://medium.com/@komorama/on-schelling-points-in-organizations-e90647cdd81b
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Any recommendations for a new RSS & Newsletter reader? I’ve been using Inoreader for a while, …
Any recommendations for a new RSS & Newsletter reader?
I’ve been using Inoreader for a while, but its newsletter reformatting makes the content unreadable.
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There must always be a wait here.
There must always be a wait here.
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“For the non-saboteur: this is obviously a story about how to get the most out of your team. Pr…
“For the non-saboteur: this is obviously a story about how to get the most out of your team. Productivity in general is a story of a thousand cuts, and none of these things are in themselves the thing that will ruin the productivity. But productivity adds up on a logarithmic scale, meaning that all these things compound in a multiplicative way.”
https://erikbern.com/2023/12/13/simple-sabotage-for-software.html
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“W Edwards Deming, the man credited with almost single-handedly transforming the economy of pos…
“W Edwards Deming, the man credited with almost single-handedly transforming the economy of post-war Japan, once said that a bad system will beat a good person every time. It wasn’t an attempt to get people to give up trying – it was a attempt to get people to understand the importance of the system and the futility of trying to focus on blaming people for failures.”
https://paulitaylor.com/2024/01/05/fix-the-system-problem-not-the-people-problem/