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Async communication is a simple concept: you send a message without expecting an immediate response. The surprising thing is the side-effects of async if you make it the default communication.
Here are some core learnings we've done at Doist in the last 8 years
Today is national coming out day!
To all of you who are coming out today, good luck and I hope it goes super well.
For all of you who can't, don't worry - we who are will keep trying to make the world safer so that one day you can.
PUB DAY for "When McKinsey Comes to Town." This is much more than a book about a consulting firm: McKinsey is how ideas like high CEO pay, offshoring, asset securitization, and mega-profit healthcare spread far and wide. THIS THREAD describes our journey.
Not a developer: blogs in Wordpress
Junior developer: writes their own blog site
Developer: writes their own blog site framework
Senior developer: uses someone else’s blog site framework
Staff developer: blogs in Wordpress
The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender. And no, I'm not kidding. Turn up the volume and hear Beethoven like you've never heard it before. https://trib.al/pFwvN8z
An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don't, what I've been up to lately. Lord knows what they'll ultimately publish, so I thought I'd just write this instead. -->
An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don't, what I've been up to lately. Lord knows what they'll ultimately publish, so I thought I'd just write this instead. -->
The world needs to plant approximately 1 trillion trees by 2030 in order to sequester enough carbon in the atmosphere to offset the worst effects of climate change.
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28 short pieces of life advice:
1. Block off 90 minutes in your calendar every morning to work on the most important thing. Wake up early if you need to. Don’t compromise.
This is the first time I’m seeing SNL just straight up ran an ad for a product instead of a parody.
It wasn’t funny but it convinced me to download BeReal to see what the hype is about. Mission accomplished, I guess.
At one of our all-hands meetings, Jeff presented his “flywheel strategy.” He had literally written it on the back of a napkin, and he just showed a picture of it to us. Instead of hiring a consulting firm, Jeff kept it simple. Amazon is still executing against this strategy.
This is the right diagnosis, but the prescription is too meek. Useful meetings are ones where most of the participants take turns speaking and listening for the purpose of reaching a non-preordained conclusion. We used to call these conversations. Replace all others with async.
Time in meetings has more than tripled since Feb 2020. Nearly a third of meetings are unnecessary—wasting $25M a year for every 1k people.
There are 4 reasons to meet: to decide, learn, bond, and do. If it doesn't serve one of those purposes, cancel it.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-26/are-meetings-a-waste-of-time-pointless-plans-cost-big-companies-100m…
pundit: People won’t be mean to each other on Twitter if they’re forced to use their real names.
realist: My brother in Christ, people stormed the Capitol and posted videos to their social media & texted family. They’ll happily sign their names to mean tweets.
Stable Diffusion imagines otherworldly images. But what if it could create videos? 🤔
There’s a new model on Replicate that animates between two prompts. Try it out here: https://replicate.com/andreasjansson/stable-diffusion-animation…
Here’s some stuff you can make with it... 🧵
America's average cost per mile for tunnel projects isn't just higher than Japan, Germany, Chile, or Norway.
Our construction costs are higher than those 4 countries' tunneling costs-per-mile *combined*
I know this woman has a million other things to be busy with now and she’s still playing flute better than some people I went to music conservatory with, amazing
Hearing @lizzo play some of the Library's priceless antique instruments on Monday was such a gift, and we were honored and happy to help her share that gift with her concert audience Tuesday night. Here is some more behind-the-scenes footage of her Library tour. #LizzoAtLOC
In 2018, @Tumblr announced a ban on "adult content." That call was made by @Verizon, Tumblr's erstwhile owner, and to call the resulting mess "a shitshow" is an insult to good, hardworking shitshows all over the world. 1/
Struggling to connect on your remote team?
We’ve built a 68 person remote team that’s driving $32 million in annual revenue.
Here are 10 ideas for building great culture in a distributed team:
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11 years ago today, The Weeknd discovered Lana Del Rey through tumblr, and was the first one to ask BBC Radio 1 to put 'Video Games' on their playlist.
The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/