“What’s your perfect toast? 🍞”

The people that worked inside an organization are the ones that can explain and critique it with the most insight. They also tend to be more emotionally invested in the company’s success. I plan to continue criticizing (and praising) the organizations I’ve worked for, and I hope others do the same. Of course they did, but just because people ask for something doesn’t mean we should build it. Experimentation is something you can do internally, via user testing, in private betas, or on whiteboards. Experiments don’t have revenue goals, and usually don’t require full-time engineers working for months. Experiments don’t have splashy launches and email campaigns to hundreds of thousands of users. Would I have criticized this publicly if it was just an experiment? Absolutely not.

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They have given up, to a great extent, the amenities and achievements of civilization: solitude and leisure, the sanction to be oneself, truly absorbed, whether in contemplating a work of art, a scientific theory, a sunset, or the face of one’s beloved.

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Selection of architectural concepts from various projects.

If I ran a tech company I would grant a 6 week sabbatical every two years.— Chad Etzel (@jazzychad) June 25, 2018

“https://t.co/ZgHdzwIWm3”

In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Many managers think a lot about how they treat their team, but few have a philosophy about those that leave it.

This feature is a must-have if you ever share large amounts of text in GitHub comments, like a backtrace or 50+ lines of source code. 💯 https://t.co/Z37PKxCxjy— JP Simard (@simjp) February 27, 2019

Backticks ('`Type`') are another good alternative (that I keep forgetting exists). pic.twitter.com/ILz3ODm07V— Ole Begemann (@olebegemann) January 30, 2019

Growth hacks everywhere — and it’s about to get even worse

My first step towards untangling some legacy code that I don’t yet understand is usually trying to draw a diagram of how it currently works.Somehow @_______paul found these drawings of mine from @tumblr circa 2014 or 2015, and was nice enough to scan them for me ❤️ pic.twitter.com/i5qHnySZwV— Bryan Irace (@irace) February 26, 2019

Jason Koebler and Jordan Cox of Vice penned a blockbuster investigation into Facebook’s content moderation practices that’s worth your time. They interviewed “dozens” of sources, including several on-the-record conversations with Facebook employees in charge of their moderation efforts: The thing that makes Facebook’s problem so difficult is its gargantuan size. It doesn’t just have to […]

Casey Newton of the Verge spoke with content moderators who are employed by Cognizant but working on Facebook’s behalf: Collectively, the employees described a workplace that is perpetually teetering on the brink of chaos. It is an environment where workers cope by telling dark jokes about committing suicide, then smoke weed during breaks to numb […]