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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 turn into well-known for making stunning 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, life and contradictions.
Time for a Code-Yellow?: A Blunt Instrument That Works [Nilam Ganenthiran/Beacon Software] – In case you learn my earlier weblog publish [an interview with Nilam], then you definitely may need already encountered this essay. It’s an ideal abstract of ‘code-yellows’ from his time at Instacart.
Throughout a code-yellow, a pacesetter can escalate a mission/state of affairs to a warfare room state of affairs, pulling individuals out of their day-to-day work to focus totally 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 vital for the time being, and strongly encourages the staff to sacrifice the ‘L’ and ‘B’ from Work-Life-Stability.
My private perception is that the ‘appropriate’ frequency for Code-Yellows isn’t steadily but in addition not by no means.
Duct Tape [Molly Graham/Glue Club] – Molly’s an ideal working exec who makes frequent appearances in my hyperlink blogs. This one is about ‘duct tape,’ interim org choices that gained’t maintain perpetually, however can maintain itself lengthy sufficient to deal with different pressing wants first.
Examples of duct tape embody:
– an excellent gifted learner chief paired with an outdoor advisor (be sure you set clear expectations up entrance that you simply’ll finally layer the learner chief)
– an exterior fractional chief (somebody who has carried out 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 beneath one chief that you’ll finally break 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 so on)
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 on account of AI notetakers like Granola. Generally 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 selected thought or increase on a query simply to get it ‘heard’ by the bot, with the intention to ‘mark’ a spot within the abstract that’s vital 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 need to 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 thought a digital camera can have mystical properties) will increase your coronary heart fee then this e mail e-newsletter may be for you.
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