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Flattening the Organization
It's a fateful coincidence that 2 of the most consequential social networks of the past decade—Twitter and Facebook—have undergone substantial layoffs in the past year, for different reasons. At the same time, the CEOs of both…
Technology-Driven Creativity
This is a good, if long , article that summarizes how everything seems to be converging on a set of homogeneous styles: The age of average I've read the bit on how all cars have near-identical shapes, and I…
The Arc Browser
The browser wars, as we knew them back in the 90s through the 2010s, are largely over: IE won over Netscape, Firefox sprung up to provide a much-needed alternative, then Google came and ate everyone's lunch on the…
Review: The Culture Code
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast," so the saying goes. I learned that lesson early on in my first management classes, via books like The Score Takes Care of Itself. The idea is to build a strong cultural foundation…
Installing the Tesla Solar Roof
When we decided to transition our household completely to EVs with the Tesla Model X, we knew that we wanted to close the renewable energy loop with solar power. As we took delivery of the car back in early 2022,…
AI Engineering Validation
Product development around AI is accelerating. Just in March alone: OpenAI launched GPT-4; MidJourney upgraded its art generator to V5; Microsoft announced AI integrations into its Office 365 suite; Google formally launched its Bard AI into beta; Adobe launched its…
