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"An examination of the nature of 'elegance' through multiple lenses: complex systems, product design, culture, etc. A good read that makes tangible an abstract concept most of us take for granted day-to-day." —Ryan Duffy, Marketing @ Medium
"An oldie but a goodie from 2021. A deep (but accessible) look into the discipline of design thinking authored by a now former IBM design leader and current adjunct professor of design engineering in the MADE program at Brown/RISD." —Ryan Duffy, Marketing @ Medium
"This was delightful and made my day better. It's an honest (and funny) perspective on what it means to develop a meaningful relationship on a day-to-day level and over the course of a lifetime." —Harris Sockel, Content @ Medium
"This is something a little different than the usual photography advice, offering a thoughtful path forward that eliminates the procrastination beginners like me can fall prey to when learning how to use our cameras." —Terrie Schweitzer, Curation @ Medium
"An insider account from Steve Yegge, former engineer at Amazon, about attending an offsite at Bezos's house in 2004. It's the kind of story that helps convey what Bezos is actually like IRL (it's also just an entertaining read)." —Harris Sockel, Content @ Medium
"If you find yourself (or others) constantly digging or sifting through treasure troves of documentation for specific kernels of information, I encourage you to adapt this process for your own use case. You can modify this to work for your personal documents, or your company’s archives. And if you do, I guarantee you’ll walk away from the experience seeing your documents in a new light!"
"Isaac Asimov once said if his doctor told him he was dying, he wouldn’t lament, he would just type a little faster."
"It doesn’t matter how 'intelligent' it is — it can’t get to meaning if all it has access to is form. But also: it’s not 'intelligent.' Our only evidence for its 'intelligence' is the apparent coherence of its output. But we’re the ones doing all the meaning making there, as we make sense of it."
"You gotta read the comments! There is gold there — and more good writing." —Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
"If Generative AI has suddenly become so pervasive, isn’t there a secondary effect that immediately increases the scarcity, and thus the value, of uniquely human knowledge, experience, and intuition?"
"When discussing team organization, I am often asked: 'Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?' My response is to hiss like a vampire exposed to holy water. When the follow-up question is: 'Given you want managers on your teams, can the manager still perform code reviews?' I burst into flames."
"Following the go to school -> go to college -> work hard -> get ahead -> buy a home -> retire-in-comfort path is as foreign and bygone to them as the farm-the-land-with-your-dad-until-he-dies-and-you-inherit-it path is to a Boomer."
"For people to rely on intelligent systems, the systems must demonstrate human values, ethical decision-making, transparency in decision-making, privacy controls, data security, traceability, fairness and inclusion, contextuality, and a whole host of other considerations."
"It's literally a show about hugging."
"Walking through Kyiv every day, I think:
This might not have existed.
Talking to my mom on the phone, I think:
She might not have been here anymore.
No matter how painful this experience is, I think:
Awareness of what we might have lost teaches us to value what we have with all our strength."
"The only thing I’ve read about 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' that seems to be in the same vernacular as the film, bringing along neurodiversity and the IRS into one glorious messy everything bagel of a story." —Terrie Schweitzer, Curation @ Medium
"Lack of team agreement on which people lead, approve, or do the work, inevitably leads to confusion. The issue tends to appear when a project is in full swing..."
"On one occasion, I watched Tina run a one-and-1/2-hour sound check as she made sure everyone got things right. Maybe her ex-husband Ike Turner was a taskmaster, but Tina could be just as tough."
"An arcane but useful argument about 'begging the question' — very much from the grammar police point of view, but fun" —Scott Lamb, Content @ Medium
"Each Memorial Day, I set out Kyle’s photo next to a Corona Extra — his favorite beer. My family and I also host an epic barbecue where we’ll laugh with friends until it hurts. While the day is a painful reminder of the numerous friends I’ve lost in combat, it’s also a beautiful reminder to continue to live."
