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The Artwork of Taking It Sluggish [Anne Wiener/The New Yorker] – Profile of Grant Petersen, founding father of Rivendell Bicycle Works.
Petersen has develop 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, purposeful, 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] – In the event you learn my earlier weblog put up [an interview with Nilam], then you definately may need already encountered this essay. It’s an incredible abstract of ‘code-yellows’ from his time at Instacart.
Throughout a code-yellow, a frontrunner can escalate a mission/state of affairs to a conflict 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 present plans to be deprioritized, removes any/all ambiguity round what’s most essential for the time being, and strongly encourages the crew to sacrifice the ‘L’ and ‘B’ from Work-Life-Stability.
My private perception is that the ‘right’ frequency for Code-Yellows isn’t ceaselessly but additionally not by no means.
Duct Tape [Molly Graham/Glue Club] – Molly’s an incredible working exec who makes frequent appearances in my hyperlink blogs. This one is about ‘duct tape,’ interim org choices that received’t maintain without end, however can maintain itself lengthy sufficient to give attention to different pressing wants first.
Examples of duct tape embrace:
– a brilliant proficient learner chief paired with an outdoor advisor (be sure to set clear expectations up entrance that you simply’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 position 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 due to Granola [Alex Rainert] – I too have discovered myself much less distracted throughout conferences because of AI notetakers like Granola. Generally my arms don’t even contact the keyboard and I simply depend upon the AI to supply a abstract of key factors. I’ll verbalize a selected thought or develop on a query simply to get it ‘heard’ by the bot, so as to ‘mark’ a spot within the abstract that’s essential to me, so it does flippantly begin to form the assembly in a approach, not only a passive collector. We’ve undoubtedly hit a tipping level and you must now go into each video assembly assuming you’re being recorded. That may really feel icky however it’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 concept a digital camera can have mystical properties) will increase your coronary heart charge then this electronic mail e-newsletter is perhaps for you.
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