the art of giving a shit
Interesting and readable account of one person's experience of approaching leadership as a service to those you are leading.
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(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?
The question of "pride" in relation to the employee/employer relationship comes up a lot in internal surveys, in my experience. This paper seems to seek to take a fairly technical approach to understanding the importance and impact.
It does raise the more general question though: what does it really mean to be proud of your employer?
Software companies in Edinburgh
Handy list of IT (and software development) companies in the Edinburgh area.
Bayer Acquires AskBio to Broaden Innovation Base in Cell and Gene Therapy - AskBio
HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
Good essay that gives plenty of reasons why HR are not there for you; they're 100% there for the company and nothing else.
Explaining the GameStop shorting thing
Tweet that contains an image of a reddit post (I know!) that explains the whole solution with hedge funds, GameStop and r/WSB, and does it in a very short and easy to understand way.
THE $TREET
Comprehensive explanation of the situation with r/WSB, GameStop shares and the taking down of some hedge funds.
Translating slang and corporate-speak
Fun thread with some translations of slang, but also translations into corporate-speak too. Good chuckle here.
Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team
Yup, I've been on the receiving end of some of these all too often.
Game Development Budgets and Customer Value
A brief but useful explanation of how game development budgets relate to perceived and actual consumer value. Helps answer the question "is a higher-price but higher-budget game better value than a lower-price but lower-budget game?"
Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla's reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:
- The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)
- While the Mozilla revenue drops
- And the Firefox Marketshare takes a nosedive
- While, at first, this seems ridiculously lopsided... perhaps it actually makes sense.
(PDF) Humanism in Business – Towards a Paradigm Shift?
Management theory and practice are facing unprecedented challenges. The lack of sustainability, the increasing inequity and the continuous decline in societal trust pose a threat to ‘business as usual’ (Jackson and Nelson, 2004). Capitalism is at a crossroad and scholars, practitioners and policy makers are called to rethink business strategy in light of major external changes (Hart 2005, Arena 2004). In the following we review an alternative view of human beings that is based on a renewed Darwinian theory developed by Lawrence and Nohria (2002). We label this alternative view ‘humanistic’ and draw distinctions to current ‘economistic’ conceptions. We then develop the consequences that this humanistic view has for business organizations, examining business strategy, governance structures, leadership forms, and organizational culture. Afterwards we outline the influences of humanism on management in the past and the present, and suggest options for humanism to shape the future of management. In this manner we will contribute to the discussion of alternative management paradigms that help solve the current crises.
Oh the Humanity
Opening: An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, "I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way." As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple, it pains me to admit that The Apple Way can destroy a lot of startups. Which brings us to Humane.
the madness of king altman: how ai became the god of silicon valley
"At this point, it doesn’t matter if tech executives and VCs believe their own hype and wild claims about what’s next for AI — though I firmly believe that they genuinely buy into the things they’re preaching and chugging their own kool aid — because they’ve made the grand pronouncements, they started their cults, and they promised a future of AGI-powered wonder. They sold equity to investors who give them billions every year, and those investors now expect steady double-digit percentage returns."
A fun (and hopefully concerning) take on the AIification of everything.
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
"The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself."
A rant that's pretty much about how money-grabbing idiots are slapping AI on any old shit. We all know who they are.