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A style of leadership that is direct and forceful, yet also respectful (2023)(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
37 points by lkrubner 2y ago|36 comments
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Is Anger Every Strategic?(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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Brittle, Angry, Defensive People(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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Brittle, Angry, Defensive People(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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The Impact of Metadata Configurations on Text-to-SQL Performance [pdf](corraldata.com)
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by lkrubner 2y ago
The success of Bluesky has been driven, in part, by the sophistication of their system for blocking. I know this is the main thing that draws me in. There are many people who, on a volunteer basis, build block lists that I can subscribe to.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
If people cared about decentralization then we would not have seen the consolidation that we've seen. That's true even for technologies who pitch decentralization as a core feature, as we saw with cryptocurrencies -- the original
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Preferences change before behavior changes, especially where network effects are strong. Preference has to become strongly negative before you'll see the change in behavior. But then the change can happen fast. A social network can suf
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by lkrubner 2y ago
I've written about the poor style of decision making that often happens at "flat" organizations. Repeating a point that Jo Freeman makes, without a leader or a process for decision making, flat organizations make decisions ac
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Exactly. For those who need to understand what this can look like, I wrote up a detailed case here: https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/the-accidental-d...
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by lkrubner 2y ago
This is one of the main topics that I teach entrepreneurs about. I wrote something reasonably short here: https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/to-grow-you-must... I wrote something much longer here, but this mat
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Many graphic designers don't know how to work with the template systems of CMSs that attempt to serve multiple websites from a single app instance. Wordpress is kept alive, in part, by designers who feel it is easier to hack than any o
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by lkrubner 2y ago
This. If Symfony or Ruby on Rails or Django or Quarkus or NextJS could replace Wordpress, then they would. I myself wrote Symphony for many years (2008 to 2014) and I was certain it could kill Wordpress, but it failed. The combination of Wo
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To grow, you must build a beautiful, pragmatic, innovative and agile bureaucracy(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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The Vocabulary of Democracy's Architecture(demodexio.substack.com)
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Committee size is efficiency: the central bank versus the legislature(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 2y ago
The Soviet Union could have survived if a central political power had survived, but by the late 1970s this was becoming impossible. The collapse of the USSR resembles the collapse of many states that are overtaken by oligarchs, and the olig
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Is your project on schedule? How do you know?(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
9 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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by lkrubner 2y ago
That mixing of Sapien and Neanderthal genes, which survives in the modern population, occurred in the Middle East, in the Caucus mountains, and in modern day Turkey. But of the Sapien DNA that we have from Europe before 30,000 BC, we cannot
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by lkrubner 2y ago
That mixing of Sapien and Neanderthal genes, which survives in the modern population, occurred in the Middle East, in the Caucus mountains, and in modern day Turkey. But of the Sapien DNA that we have from Europe before 30,000 BC, we cannot
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Sapiens in Europe went extinct roughly the same time that Neanderthals in Europe went extinct, or shortly thereafter. Careful DNA testing has not been any to detect any DNA signature that carried from 30,000 BC to the present population. Al
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Software code reviews, and other empty rituals that waste time(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
2 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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by lkrubner 2y ago
You discover that by writing the test. You don't try to predict that ahead of time. The goal is to get away from trying to predict problems ahead of time, because most of those problems turn out to be phantoms.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
When it comes to code reviews, the return on investment faces the Law Of Diminishing Returns. While many of the comments made in code reviews might be interesting, they are not so interesting that they pay for themselves. If you put some do
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Interesting that the mania for over-investment in devops is beginning to abate. Here on Hacker News I was a steady critic of both Docker and Kubernetes, going to at least 2017, but most of these posts were unpopular. I have to go back to 20
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by lkrubner 2y ago
There is no money to be made from individual users. All of the money comes from companies building something on top of the LLMs, and those of us building startups on top of LLMs are very much aware of the differences between the LLMs. And,
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by lkrubner 2y ago
I agree that there must have been earlier writing, likely written on wood. Early systems could have evolved from markings on trees, like we still use on the Appalachian Trail, and other trails. Warnings for bears or tigers, symbols for diff
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Progress towards what? Do you have some political goal? What you've written does not make sense.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Dan Morena, CTO at Upright.com, made the point that every startup was unique and therefore every startup had to find out what was best for it, while ignoring whatever was considered "best practice." I wrote what he told me here:
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by lkrubner 2y ago
“progress requires fundamental change” Progress towards what? Do you have some political goal? There is zero evidence that flatness increases profits. There is no company that we can point to and say “that company was successful because it

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