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The core observations from Fred Brook’s The Mythical Man Month is that assigning more folks to work on a project often slows down delivery. Part of that is the predictability tax.

Everyone was young, but they all looked old. Eyes wide open, wandering Manhattan it’s difficult not to ask: Is New York City falling apart? I suppose, technically, it is, perpetually, given the amount of scaffolding everywhere you look. Scaffolding as a permanent fixture of older buildings. ​ New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he had no intention of ever leaving it again. Maybe cities excel at this kind of erasure? When I walk cities I rarely feel that sense of past-people or rituals I feel in the mountains of Japan The old roads in Japan have their own tchotchekes, but for the most part contain something “like a scent,” which is, above all, fun, and is perhaps the thing most easily lost in the chaos and nowness, the inherent “nowhere,” of the big cities, and those dusty plains of the old west.

I like this concept as a whole, gonna start threading some of mine https://t.co/etG9mYlzhf— Nikhil Krishnan (@nikillinit) March 18, 2016

That is, involve your team in co-creating what success looks like — instead of purely asking them to execute and get you there.

What’s your favorite example of subtlety and nuance in motion design? 💬 For me it’s the inertia of iMessage bubbles when you scroll quickly. Looking for more examples!— Ryan McLeod (@warpling) March 4, 2019

fixes #11

“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

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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.