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Shared (un)realities
Shared (un)realities
The un-reality of our present is really a consequence of the exponential multiplication of realities. In the not-so-distant past, most of our societal constructs — political bodies, media entities, and the like — helped shape our collective reality, which is an extremely important thing for a society to have if it is to work in a linear fashion.
·om.co·
Shared (un)realities
Premonition
Premonition
The pandemic has fractured the discourse, exposing how many layers of assumptions formed the bedrock. ​ Under quarantine conditions, there is less opportunity to physically signal one’s participation in a culture, so clothing and conspicuous consumption matter less. ​ Knowledge tooling will be extremely important to this new set of online cultural formation. ​ We’ll see a dramatic acceleration of the exodus from clearnet that began a few years ago. ​ Cities will need to put incentives in place for small businesses to take over these spaces, and stem the blight of banks and pharmacies that have eaten ground floor retail, have genericized walkable cities in the last decade. ​ People who left the city due to safety concerns or simply for affordability reasons may not return. Combined with the increasing viability of remote work and zero-hour contracting, we may see further evacuation of the city and a new wave of suburbanization. ​ The increased availability of urban space relative to demand that results from this will create new opportunities for communities and cultural production to manifest themselves in the physical world. ​ in the second, that same realm is reinvigorated and returned to its true stakeholders, the people who live there. Breathe. Read the air. The real knowledge work begins
·subpixel.space·
Premonition
Do you miss the future? Mark Fisher interviewed
Do you miss the future? Mark Fisher interviewed
And yeah, I think that sense of future shock is what has disappeared, which was in retrospect a very rapid turnover of styles one was accustomed to. ​ Music is the site where the major symptoms of cultural malaise can be detected I think. ​ what’s missing is a popular experience of newness.
·crackmagazine.net·
Do you miss the future? Mark Fisher interviewed
Next Chapter Program at Carta
Next Chapter Program at Carta
I want a culture where employees can tell us their dreams, including after Carta, and we support them doing it. ​ Lastly, all departures, whether employee initiated or company initiated, will receive payment commensurate with tenure.
·carta.com·
Next Chapter Program at Carta
Purl | Pixar
Purl | Pixar
Purl, directed by Kristen Lester and produced by Gillian Libbert-Duncan, features an earnest ball of yarn named Purl who gets a job in a fast-paced, high energy, bro-tastic start-up. Yarny hijinks ensue as she tries to fit in, but how far is she willing to go to get the acceptance she yearns for, and in the end, is it worth it? Get ready for more #SparkShorts coming to Disney+ later in 2019. Sign up for updates at http://disneyplus.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pixar Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixar/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pixar Copyright: (C) Disney•Pixar
·m.youtube.com·
Purl | Pixar
#89: Mars Is a Place on Earth
#89: Mars Is a Place on Earth
Antarctica has become one of the most widely cited examples of how law enforcement might operate on other worlds ​ Throughout history, frontiers have been where we experiment with innovative societal arrangements, but they are also where we most faithfully reproduce the most current version of our culture, unfettered by the historical customs that temper it back home. ​ but it will also feel like where we came from.
·medium.com·
#89: Mars Is a Place on Earth
On cultural stagnation
On cultural stagnation
This normalization of deviance means that people within an organization stop seeing problems as problems, making it impossible to learn from them. Stagnation kills resilience. ​ A change-resistant culture, however, risks burning out those new people, as they find that they are unable to make any meaningful changes. ​ Knowing what decisions were made and why can help prevent “we’ve always done it this way” as a fall-back reason for doing something. If you understand the constraints and trade-offs around why a past decision was made, you’ll be better equipped to understand if they are still relevant in your current context. ​ push authority for decision-making down closest to where the work gets done ​ If different members of an interview panel have very different views of how the organization works, that can be a sign of deeper issues. This often indicates implicit power structures or lack of clarity around process that can be frustrating to deal with and difficult to change.
·ryn.works·
On cultural stagnation
What I Learned Having a Coffee with Every Engineer - Artsy Engineering
What I Learned Having a Coffee with Every Engineer - Artsy Engineering
Sharing suffering is actually one way to minimize suffering, and minimizing suffering is at the core of my beliefs on compassionate teams. ​ If you're a senior engineer wondering what's next, try turning your attention to your team. I would bet that you'll learning something worthwhile.
·artsy.github.io·
What I Learned Having a Coffee with Every Engineer - Artsy Engineering
Values Length and Interpretation
Values Length and Interpretation
Single words for values are seductive because they have deep meanings. But, because they have deep meanings, you’ve little assurance that everyone has the same definition. (“What is love?”)— Sean Rose (@seanrose) October 22, 2018
·twitter.com·
Values Length and Interpretation
Making Yourself Irrelevant
Making Yourself Irrelevant
“You should worry about the potential damage that can be done to your business if something were to happen because not enough people were knowledgeable or had the right tools to do their job.”
·danielzarick.com·
Making Yourself Irrelevant
The Shades of Change
The Shades of Change
“The trick, therefore, is to allow for some types of changes to be fast and fluid, while requiring others to be slower and more deliberate. Some changes should require nothing more than a quick chat, while others need a stakeholder meeting, and others need an all-hands company meeting.”
·medium.com·
The Shades of Change
Better Meetings
Better Meetings
As a company scales the number of meetings initially grows faster then headcount. With more people comes more coordination. Most companies ...
·blog.eladgil.com·
Better Meetings
Activist Engineering
Activist Engineering
You’ve been there. You’re sitting in a meeting and your boss, a product manager, or an executive is talking about Q2 goals. They’re laying out a roadmap of the features that are going to be “coming down the pike”. All of a sudden you see it.
·matthewbischoff.com·
Activist Engineering