Emery Wells Can we safely say that structures and systems stifle invitation because the whole idea of structures and systems are to prevent failures and make things predictable and manageable. Innovation is about embracing the possibility of making mistakes.
They are both needed. YMMV.

Startup vs Big Company Dynamics

Startup
• Observation: Users want a new feature.
• Designer (60 min later): Here are some figma prototypes.
• Engineer: We can ship this by the end of the week.

Big Company:
• Observation: Let’s discuss our observations when Suzy’s back;

The four most dangerous financial traits are:

- FOMO
- Demanding certainty when none exists
- Impatience
- Gullibility

Rippling's investor memo is a piece of art.

Clarity in thinking, writing and the sheer audacity of articulating how 'the team will win' and crush incumbents.

New blog post on understanding Apache Hudi's consistency model using TLA+, with special focus on multi-writer scenarios.

jack-vanlightly.com/analyses/2024/…

Linearizability: single object property

Serializability: multiple object property

Noncompete agreements are now illegal everywhere in America. Go forth and change jobs! npr.org/2024/04/23/124…

Social media can be a never-ending stream of people recommending stuff.

But you shouldn't take recommendations as stuff you *must* do. You'll just get overwhelmed.

Social media is great for getting ideas and inspiration and encouragement for what you already want to do.

OpenAI’s accidental lead is rapidly evaporating.

At scale, all B2B products converge. It’s reports, alerts, workflow, permissions and approvals all the way down.

This is Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt,

MPs from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand united in a powerful Joint Parliamentary Statement raising concerns regarding the human rights violation in India and the continued unjust incarceration of human rights defenders like Mr. Sanjiv

How #strategy can become culture 🔥👌

But that is not easy. Many organizations, are stuck at Level 1: Let’s copy what others do
✅We need to be lean!
✅We need to do agile!
✅We need to do DDD and TDD!
✅We need microservices and serverless
✅We need Kubernetes...

👉... Then

Most surreal photos you'll ever see - thread 🧵

1. Eruption on Mount Etna gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky

Proud to be an Indian but ashamed of my PM. Begging for votes using the most vulgar Islamophobic language. Shame on all who vote for him.

These two table capture the drop in turnout in phase 1.

Steep drop of 4.6 % points (= 76 lakh voters)

Drop in constituencies
Won by NDA in 2019: 5.9%
Won by others: 3.2%

A decline in Modi wave?

“If you control the media and peddle fake narratives, the reality on the ground doesn’t improve,” says PM Modi on Kerala’s universally acclaimed COVID response.

Irony dies a thousand deaths.

Glad to see that land record digitization will be high priority for the next Govt we get:

Couple of points here:

(1) The scheme to digitize land records was revamped in 2016 (original scheme started in 2008); outlay was expected to be ~₹11,000 crore

(2) In 2020, the SVAMITVA

Beautiful takedown of The Economist by Singapore's Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam.

Vegetables in Alaska can reach gigantic sizes due to the 20 hours of sunlight they receive every day.