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by lkrubner 2y ago
"Hierarchy is so baked in to every other company, organization, and education system that people just don't know how to operate absent it." That's partly because it works. It is proven. It is well-known. We have excellen
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A survey of CTOs: how flat should your organization be?(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
15 points by lkrubner 2y ago|12 comments
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If workers cannot do what the leadership needs, then they are bad workers, they need to be fired.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
This explains everything: "It’s not practical. Hybrid work may be technically the best route, but it’s also complicated to oversee." Who cares if workers are productive, when the leadership is clearly less productive? And the lead
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What to do when your country is supposed to be a democracy but it feels rigged(demodexio.substack.com)
2 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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Eric Garside as CTO at Freshly: how flat should the tech team be?(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
1 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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by lkrubner 2y ago
How would that be possible? Novelty is a known weakness of the LLMs and ideally the only things published in peer-reviewed journals are novel.
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Completely irrelevant. Humans cannot survive in the conditions of the Cambrian. Merely going back to the Cambrian is enough to ensure our extinction. No one cares that the CO2 levels were higher then. What matters is that we will all be dea
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by lkrubner 2y ago
"The way we discover interesting websites needs innovating, why not let anyone contribute to any webpage?" I remember there was a website that did this in 1999, using frames to allow people to post comments on any website. The cou
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The Accidental Democracy of Flat Organizations(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
3 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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"Most of the difference in GDP was because Dollar was a lot cheaper compared to Euro pre Recession." Yes, but why? There was a theory that massive stimulus spending would weaken the dollar because of the additional debt, but inste
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Since the crisis of 2008 the USA has had several trillion dollars in stimulus spending. Very roughly speaking, Europe pursued policies of austerity, whereas the USA followed a more Keynesian route of big spending. On this matter, the Keynes
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Dan Morena Is a Genius(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 2y ago
"hardware startups that have to raise a lot of money before a Series A are... considerably riskier, no?" Why riskier? They have more of a moat don't they? The large capitalization needed suggests they will face less competiti
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by lkrubner 2y ago
On a slightly different topic, we now know that a surprisingly large number of people suffer daytime "hallucinations without delusion" meaning they see things but they know the things are not real. And I've often wondered if
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by lkrubner 2y ago
I agree with the use of Hetzner. I use them. Very cheap machine, very powerful. Very simple and straightforward. People need to think carefully about the possible expense and complexity of AWS. Hetzner is simple and straightforward.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
The problem with the title is simply that the English language allows open compound words. I know many Germans wonder why we allow this. Germans push the words together, for clarity. I've suggested that we use hyphens. Hyphens feel nat
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Github won in part because git won. And git won because, for complex sociological factors, the software engineers were able to argue that their needs were more important than the needs of other parts of the companies for which they worked.
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Dan Morena Is a Genius(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
1 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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The author does not claim that Cohen has a "road to Damascus moment" when he arrives at Harvard. Instead, this is the claim: "This created something of a “road to Damascus” moment for Cohen. It forced him to ask the basic que
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by lkrubner 2y ago
"My best suggestion for overcoming this challenge, when reading A Theory of Justice, is to go into it thinking “this is the book that killed Western Marxism,” and then focus on figuring out how it managed to do so." I've argu
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by lkrubner 2y ago
This is absolutely true. Still, sometimes outsourcing can go horribly wrong. I wrote about a shocking, outrageous case here: https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/when-outsourcing...
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by lkrubner 2y ago
"the whole idea of Stack Overflow is to have answers to general questions, not to everyone's individual question" But why? I ran a site called WPQuestions.com for 7 years, it was where people paid between $10 to $50 to get fa
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by lkrubner 2y ago
"The world would be one month in diameter - so that a fleet or army or inter-player message could be dispatched to anywhere in the game in a single turn." I had a similar idea. Since my game is real-time, rather than turn based, I
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Just like respiratory infections, some people get it multiple times, and have to be treated multiple times.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Sad to say, the fecal-oral cycle of infection remains common in the USA, with the most common areas of spread being restaurants although hospitals were sadly guilty of this until recently. And for any gastrointestinal illness in the USA, th
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by lkrubner 2y ago
The USA economy is unstoppable. The entire world agrees on this issue, that’s why investors from all over the world are pouring money into American investments and American financial instruments. The USA has the most dynamic and innovative
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by lkrubner 2y ago
I am working on a strategy game. I call it The Lost Age Of Abundance. A multi-player, real-time war-and-economics game. It is the kind of game that most developers would typically take a turn-based approach to, but I think turn-based games
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by lkrubner 2y ago
This strategy amounts to building a RAG for your company. I have a friend who is CTO at a startup and he is doing exactly this. He has uploaded every document he can to Anthropic/Claude, using their service which allows easy constructi
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Your comment doesn't make any sense. If you want an analogy similar to the USA versus the EU, but involving boats, then you should say: "We just ran a beautiful experiment using the Titanic and the Californian: one sunk and one di

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