Toots from 2026-03-23#
“Here’s why you failed: you were communicating bottom-up in a world that listens top-down.”…#
“Here’s why you failed: you were communicating bottom-up in a world that listens top-down.”
https://alifeengineered.substack.com/p/the-reason-most-people-are-terrible?utm_medium=newsletter
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“Across security, governance, and adoption discussions, platforms kept emerging as the thing th…#
“Across security, governance, and adoption discussions, platforms kept emerging as the thing that makes everything else possible. The pattern: create safe defaults (the ‘pit of success’), embed guardrails, and give teams a fast but safe path.”
https://annievella.com/posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertainty/
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“But the longer I sit with this recap, the more troubled I am by what it doesn’t say. I worry t…#
“But the longer I sit with this recap, the more troubled I am by what it doesn’t say. I worry that the most respected minds in software are unintentionally replicating a serious blind spot that has haunted software engineering for decades: relegating production to the realm of bugs and incidents.”
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/production-is-where-the-rigor-goes
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“Management is not dead. In fact, 2026 is the year where management becomes a key differentiato…#
“Management is not dead. In fact, 2026 is the year where management becomes a key differentiator between teams that win and teams that drown in their own output.”
https://staysaasy.com/management/2026/03/12/ai-management.html
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“AI is pushing knowledge work toward an extreme single-player mode: after the pandemic normaliz…#
“AI is pushing knowledge work toward an extreme single-player mode: after the pandemic normalized remote and asynchronous work, individuals now operate amid oceans of markdown files and “context,” endlessly recombining and remixing information while interacting less and generating little truly shared (or new) context.”
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-406-seeing-everything-understanding?utm_medium=newsletter
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“The research that has accumulated over the past several decades makes one thing unmistakably c…#
“The research that has accumulated over the past several decades makes one thing unmistakably clear: the fear that giving people more autonomy, trust, and support will come at the expense of performance is empirically and patently wrong. We now know it’s just the opposite.”
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🧵“Surrogation is a psychological phenomenon found in business practices whereby a measure of…#
🧵“Surrogation is a psychological phenomenon found in business practices whereby a measure of a construct of interest evolves to replace that construct.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogation
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Tokenmaxxing is the “hit your cheek bones with a hammer” of engineering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html
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“That sounds harsh, but it’s true. When you ask someone “what do you think?” without shar…#
“That sounds harsh, but it’s true. When you ask someone “what do you think?” without sharing what you think, you’re not collaborating, but more like outsourcing?”
https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/02/02/why-am-i-doing-the-thinking-for-you/
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“And none of that mattered, because it turns out most writing isn’t about any of those things. …#
“And none of that mattered, because it turns out most writing isn’t about any of those things. Most writing is about getting words down in a structure that makes sense, and then getting those words in front of other people.”
https://matduggan.com/markdown-ate-the-world/