I’ve been a CEO, a founder (twice). I led resilient, diverse, remote-first teams across the tech and media industries.
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1970-01-01 08:00:00
Announcing the speculative fiction work/shop, a creative gathering to imagine the future of work.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
I sent the following note to my current clients this morning, and a few of them asked me to share it more widely, so here it is.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Emily Bender: “[Satya Nadella]’s argument is not only specious, but also rests on minimizing what it is to be human, have ideas, learn, interact and communicate, so that he can say that the theft by companies of creative works to train their models is simply analogous to the experience of creative works by people.”
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Jason Koebler reports on a program that automates applying to jobs on LinkedIn, using a few prompts and the now-obligatory LLM.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Now, no technology is inevitable—it’s the result of a series of human decisions. Opposing the use of a technology that will harm you and your peers does not mean you ‘hate the future’—just, perhaps, that you would like more input into how that future will unfold.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Great questions from John Voss, in a talk about queering design systems thinking.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Thoughtful and actionable paper from Johan Allspaw about engineering resilience—with principles and tactics applicable to other kinds of work, I think.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
“Why did Caroline Ellison do it?” asks Liz Lopatto in *The Verge.* What I find interesting about her answer is the connection to Ellison’s desire to please the people around her.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Miriam Eric Suzanne explores what it means for design to be collaborative without being authoritarian, and lands upon models more commonly talked about in infoshops than product orgs.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Many of my clients make big decisions while we’re working together—to change jobs or fields, to move to another city or country, to pursue an exciting but daunting new project.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Seeds for Change has a great and brief guide to consensus decision making, useful for anyone who wants to quickly get a group up to speed about best practices for building consensus.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
One of my hypotheses about this moment in the tech industry is that, as more and more people burnout on layoffs and AI-sparkle-driven product plans, a great number of talented people will be ready to start their own ventures—and will be looking for alternatives to the VC model.
1970-01-01 08:00:00
“To get there, I had to first understand I’m not cut for the web industry anymore.”
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Charity Majors argues cogently that generative AI, whatever its abilities, will never build your engineering team.