“So if, as a product leader/CEO, you think your team isn’t 1 working on things that truly matter, or 2 achieving results that justify the investment, it is first ON YOU to figure out which of the 4 strategy problems you have, and fix them.”
A very solid thread on product as we are used to get from Shreyas.
Apple is not a company where general managers oversee managers; rather, it is a company where experts lead experts. The assumption is that it’s easier to train an expert to manage well than to train a manager to be an expert.
In a 1984 interview [Jobs] said, “We went through that stage in Apple where we went out and thought, Oh, we’re gonna be a big company, let’s hire professional management. We went out and hired a bunch of professional management. It didn’t work at all….They knew how to manage, but they didn’t know how to do anything. If you’re a great person, why do you want to work for somebody you can’t learn anything from? And you know what’s interesting? You know who the best managers are? They are the great individual contributors who never, ever want to be a manager but decide they have to be…because no one else is going to…do as good a job.”
https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovation
Drastically lowering the voting age as Germany is considering here would solve a huge amount of problems (which is why it will of course not happen).
David Runciman has argued along similar lines that rejuvenating democracy usually happens by expanding the franchise, in this case to children.
A Django API server in a single file of 70 lines is quite a statement.
https://adamj.eu/tech/2020/10/15/a-single-file-rest-api-in-django/
Als ik het verhaal over witwassen in de Amsterdamse binnenstad hier lees, denk ik dat het hier in Berlijn zonder overdrijven tien keer zo erg is (decennia armoede, corruptie en geen enkele prioriteit bij de lokale overheid).
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/ze-zijn-hier-zo-lekker-aan-het-witwassen
How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic
A review of Taiwan’s digital and democratic culture focusing on Audrey Tang.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/
An explanation of how it’s possible to program withoutusing your hands using eye-tracking and voice recognition.
The problem isn’t just that infections have risen, it’s that the authorities’ response is increasingly muddled.
A thorough reflection by Ben Coates on the failure of the Netherlands to control Corona.
Een heerlijk artikel over het reilen en zeilen van de Oranjes en hoe het instituut niet veel meer dan een vehikel is voor zelfverrijking en slecht gedrag.
“The right people, the right time, the right context.”
Generally the action item in meetings such as this one should be writing it down for later deliberation. Being overly biased to action too often means being overly biased.