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Keeping the zone flooded over the weekend. Also replaying his “bring me your code printouts” …

Keeping the zone flooded over the weekend. Also replaying his “bring me your code printouts” Twitter behavior.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dimitarmixmihov/2025/02/22/elon-musk-to-federal-workers-say-what-you-got-done-or-resign/

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“The rest of this post is about the preconditions for resilience. I’m going to talk about res…

“The rest of this post is about the preconditions for resilience. I’m going to talk about resilience in the context of dealing with incidents. Note that all of the topics described below come from the resilience engineering literature, although I may not always use the same terminology.”

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/02/15/resilience-some-key-ingredients/?__readwiseLocation=

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“I call this “domain shifting,” and it happens when you move a problem from one area you are …

“I call this “domain shifting,” and it happens when you move a problem from one area you are unfamiliar with (CSS) to another you are more familiar with (JS) without regard for what gets lost along the way.”

https://www.thudfactor.com/posts/2024/07/domain-shift/?__readwiseLocation=

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“Despite the cost-cutting incentives built into organization-flattening, companies like Google re…

“Despite the cost-cutting incentives built into organization-flattening, companies like Google recognized that the benefits of middle management were worth paying for. But that all changed with the pandemic and subsequent dawn of a post-ZIRP era.”

https://leaddev.com/management/techs-war-on-middle-management-is-just-getting-started

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Alternatively, organizational behaviors are contagious:

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried

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He always does things like this on the weekends. <https://www.inc.com/associated-press/musks-tea…

He always does things like this on the weekends.

https://www.inc.com/associated-press/musks-team-to-lay-off-auto-safety-agency-workers-overseeing-his-car-company/91151272

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“Instead, EMs should be leaders who drive their teams toward results through multiple facets, i…

“Instead, EMs should be leaders who drive their teams toward results through multiple facets, including technical leadership, organizational alignment, process improvement, individual growth, performance management, and delegation.”

https://medium.com/better-programming/the-times-are-changing-in-software-engineering-491340d29313

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