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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/