“Does talent matter? — Crooked Timber”
The answer, at least as far as workplaces go, is a solid no, as Deming and others demonstrates ages ago. You can accomplish amazing things just by minimizing dysfunction, both individual and institutional.
As a slight counterpoint to my web dev gloom lately: I’m testing building one component in a work project as a Svelte 3 component and it is rather nice once you get past the build setup.
Still haven’t figured out how to test it properly yet.
I don’t know what this says about the state of web development, but it says something.
(alt: the npmjs.com consuming over 50% of a CPU)
“Let’s write more blog posts: an experiment by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
I really like this idea, would like to write more blog posts, just not entirely sure what to label myself as TBH.
“Revamping Firefox’s Reader Mode this Summer - monotonous.org”
This sort of structure is hard to pull off in a short entry. It probably would have worked better in a longer post that alternated between the two themes.
Posted this yesterday evening. Probably the blog post with the oddest structure I’ve written in a long while. It’s ultimately about the lack of joy in web development
I wonder if publishers who sell the ebook edition of a $40 book for $39 end up being surprised at how low their ebook sales are? Or are low ebook sales the point?
Finally back in Montréal after a month in Iceland. Still on Iceland time 😝
“Eliminate numerical goals for management - Vanguard”
“Internal goals set in the management of a company, without a method, are a burlesque”
“Psst. Turns out 80% of books published in 1924-1963 are secretly in the public domain.”
“The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis - Issue 74: Networks - Nautilus”
Sandwich cake. This used to be an Icelandic staple (and Danish, I think?) but thankfully less popular these days.
