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Discipline does not scale across teams and engineering organizations, which is a huge reason to use Effect.Their words
my take has always been that "discipline doesn't scale" across teams and eng orgs and is a huge reason to use effect
27 August
26 August
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The other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?
24 August
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Planning a day or a week in advance works because it pays the brain's decision cost once rather than dozens of times.Their words
Every decision has a cost in terms as we've seen the brain having to put in invest fuel to make that decision. So if you're having to do that every time you make a decision, that can seem very burdensome. Whereas if you did it once in a big way where you planned it out for the day or the week, maybe the costs in terms of the activation energy required for the brain is much lower for you if you do that.
19 August
31 July
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And just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And my hypothesis is there's probably dozens, hundreds of opportunities like this with the models of today that no one has yet realized.
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we're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is again hundreds of agents running every day, sometimes thousands of agents every day. It's doing the work of you know, dozens or hundreds of engineers.
22 July
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korrents.com
Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
17 June
9 June
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And then for those of you who are skeptical about international organizations, here's one you've never heard of. The International Organization for Standardization then standardized these container sizes to fit one if by truck, two if by railway cars, and thousands if by sea. And this just plummets transport costs.
26 May
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audit independence is not a property of the model. It is a property of the system around the model.
10 May
From one piece How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
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I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.
26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the companies that are very successful actually have both types of organizations inside their company. And that the leaders of the organization are the ones who are responsible for creating a healthy, functioning relationship between the two types of organizations.
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korrents.com
Large, structured organizations become risk-averse because everyone inside them is optimizing for the next promotion.Their words
as soon as you have an organization that's very large and very structured like that, uh people become very focused on getting a promotion, right? Getting, you know, into the next step of the hierarchy. And that means that all of a sudden, uh they become a lot more risk-averse.
25 March
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
22 March
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Well, now I'm getting feedback so quickly that I'm having to sometimes rebuild my mental model dozens of times in like a 30-minute period.
11 March
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Another way of putting it is that a collection of dozens of solvent well-run banks can still be broken as a group if they become greatly overleveraged compared to how many depositors want their money back at once.
22 February
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korrents.com
Third-party frontier AI auditing is urgently needed and would help prevent extreme concentration of power.Their words
I think frontier AI auditing (covering both safety and security) is both urgently needed and doable, and can help avoid extreme concentration of power, since it introduces external oversight into the decision-making of people with a "country of geniuses in a datacenter" at their disposal.
We're in Triage Mode for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com
29 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Unaccountability MachineTheir words
Davies argues that modern organizations function like runaway AIs, making decisions no human intends.
22 October 2025
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16 July 2025
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The state-of-the-art today can be more accurately described as "last-minute, black-box product testing" rather than auditing, and I think this situation threatens public safety, international stability, and sustainable commercial adoption of AI.
16 June 2025
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there are dozens more assets like this under development right now, all deserving clarity rather than opacity.
28 May 2025
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness has yet to be overcome, and for those who still care about creating strong, transparent, equitable organizations, this work matters.
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But that is not going to help you get dozens of 70 ton granite blocks 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King’s Chamber and the floor of the chamber above it, and the roof of that chamber, and the floor of the chamber above that, and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there.
21 May 2024
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korrents.com
Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineersTheir words
In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.
3 April 2024
4 March 2024
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But the biggest global thing that happened was redrawing the map of the world and producing dozens, if not hundreds, of new states. That’s the outcome of the different processes of the 20th century.
10 November 2023
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korrents.com
The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.Their words
Yet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.
17 October 2023
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Likedrcmnd.app
How Religion EvolvedTheir words
Great anthropology! So many insights into religions, tribes, friendships, organizations, the evolution of minds, superstition, and more. Got me thinking most about friendships.
14 July 2023
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korrents.com
Organizations sincerely believe they want insights and still suppress them, because insights are disorganizing.Their words
What blocks insight is that organizations say they want insights and they want innovation and they really don't. But they're they're being serious. They think they want insights. But insights are disorganizing.
16 November 2021
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Adding a dependency is a serious decision which requires consensus within the team, an audit of the new dependency, an understanding of its health and long-term prospects, and an ongoing commitment to re-audit them and be prepared to change course as necessary.
I will pay you cash to delete your npm moduledrewdevault.com
8 January 2021
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Likedrcmnd.app
LoonshotsTheir words
Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control transitions between states in organizations. Don’t let that description put you off of it, its quite fascinating.
28 October 2020
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Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get ResultsTheir words
If you want one book to teach you everything you need to know about giving great presentations, this is the book. A film director, a psychologist, and an actor share their combined experiences to help improve your content, the design, your movements, and just about every other detail of being a great speaker. It was a slow start, but by the end, I had dog-eared dozens of pages and marked up many more which I was able to directly apply to a major talk I was working on.
20 August 2019
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Sublime Text 3Their words
Still the most productive text editing environment I've ever used. Any time I try something else, within minutes I run into dozens of things it's missing or that Sublime does better.
19 October 2018
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Lovedrcmnd.app
sea serpent braceletTheir words
My sea serpent bracelet from Jill Platner. I put it on and take it off dozens of times a day, and slide it back and forth between my hands. It has the perfect weight and feel
1 January 2018
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Readrcmnd.app
Turn the Ship AroundTheir words
Guide to transforming top-down organizations into lean ones, where everyone is a leader. Written by a submarine commander, it’s mostly useful to managers in big corporations and other institutions.
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The Toyota Way to Lean LeadershipTheir words
A book about management in big organizations. Though still somewhat interesting if you work in small organizations for perspective.
19 August 2016
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