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The Artwork of Taking It Gradual [Anne Wiener/The New Yorker] – Profile of Grant Petersen, founding father of Rivendell Bicycle Works.
Petersen has change into well-known for making lovely bikes, utilizing supplies and elements that his trade has principally deserted, and for selling a imaginative and prescient of biking that’s low-key, useful, anti-car, and anti-corporate. He has polarizing opinions and an outsized affect.
A enjoyable piece about making, commerce, existence and contradictions.
Time for a Code-Yellow?: A Blunt Instrument That Works [Nilam Ganenthiran/Beacon Software] – When you learn my earlier weblog submit [an interview with Nilam], then you definately may need already encountered this essay. It’s an excellent abstract of ‘code-yellows’ from his time at Instacart.
Throughout a code-yellow, a frontrunner can escalate a venture/state of affairs to a warfare room state of affairs, pulling folks out of their day-to-day work to focus fully on the issue at hand. It’s alluring as a result of it permits for current plans to be deprioritized, removes any/all ambiguity round what’s most essential in the mean time, and strongly encourages the workforce to sacrifice the ‘L’ and ‘B’ from Work-Life-Steadiness.
My private perception is that the ‘appropriate’ frequency for Code-Yellows isn’t continuously but in addition not by no means.
Duct Tape [Molly Graham/Glue Club] – Molly’s an excellent working exec who makes frequent appearances in my hyperlink blogs. This one is about ‘duct tape,’ interim org choices that gained’t maintain ceaselessly, however can maintain itself lengthy sufficient to deal with different pressing wants first.
Examples of duct tape embody:
– a brilliant gifted learner chief paired with an out of doors advisor (be sure you set clear expectations up entrance that you just’ll finally layer the learner chief)
– an exterior fractional chief (somebody who has executed the job earlier than at larger scale to allow them to simply do your function with 1/2 or much less of their time)
– bundling two orgs collectively underneath one chief that you’ll finally cut up aside (eg, your eng chief can run product or vice versa, your advertising and marketing chief can run gross sales or vice versa, and many others)
Utilizing AI to be extra current and efficient in your conferences because of Granola [Alex Rainert] – I too have discovered myself much less distracted throughout conferences because of AI notetakers like Granola. Typically my palms don’t even contact the keyboard and I simply rely on the AI to provide a abstract of key factors. I’ll verbalize a particular thought or broaden on a query simply to get it ‘heard’ by the bot, to be able to ‘mark’ a spot within the abstract that’s essential to me, so it does frivolously begin to form the assembly in a means, not only a passive collector. We’ve positively hit a tipping level and you must now go into each video assembly assuming you’re being recorded. Which may really feel icky but it surely’s the brand new regular.
The Observer [a great free Substack about strangeness, UFOs, things that go bump in the night, etc] – If one thing titled “Killer Kodaks and Soul-Snatching Shutterbugs” (about horror movies and myhts involving the thought a digicam can have mystical properties) will increase your coronary heart charge then this e mail publication may be for you.
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