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Discoholic 🪩
ellievsbear
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
cherry valley forever
Jules of Nature
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almost home
KIROKAZE
DEAR READER
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
NASA
if i look back, i am lost
wallacepolsom
Sade Olutola
pixel skylines
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@theartofmadeline
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@whatconsumesme
You DO Have to Go Back to Work, But You DON’T Have to Go Back to Business As Usual
A big start o’ the year post on coming back to work with a mindset to shake shit up. Also, some details about last year’s financials and the practice we’ve built at NOBL.
The Future of Teamwork
Today, we launched the future of teamwork.
Roadshow
Hi.
I’ll be in Malmö, Sweden speaking at The Conference from Aug 15-21.
I’m stopping in London on the way back to LA from Aug 21-23.
I’d love to meet new people and see old friends if you’re around.
I’m also eager to share what we’ve learned helping teams and organizations become more creative and more capable with organizations in/near Malmö or London. Let me know if you’re up for a private meeting or even interested in hosting a public talk in your office.
Reach out – bud (dot) caddell (at) nobl (dot) io.
Seriously, ‘Umbrella Cover’ day?!
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
Justice Anthony Kennedy
Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur.
Ed Catmull
Catmull describes a turning point that occurred during the making Toy Story 2. People at Pixar worked long hours, seven days a week over a grueling nine-month period to complete the movie. By the end of the nine months, one-third of the staff had repetitive stress injuries. On one occasion, an exhausted artist forgot to drop his infant son off at day care and left him in his car parked in the broiling Pixar parking lot for three hours. When the child was discovered, he was unconscious (fortunately he was revived). The incident traumatized Catmull and others at Pixar. It forced them to ask the question: What have we become? Pixar had drifted into dangerous territory by putting the movie ahead of the well-being of its people. The harm done to employees, and what could have happened to the child, was a wake-up call that solidified Catmull’s core belief that people must always come first. He identifies three reasons. First, it’s a leader’s responsibility to protect the people he or she leads from pursuing excellence at all costs and it’s irresponsible to do otherwise. Second, no organization is sustainable that allows harm to come to its people. The best people will not be attracted to nor remain in a culture that ignores their welfare. Third, ideas come from people so people need to be the priority.
Via
“Eventually everything connects—people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
A Complexity Theorist Explores How Science and Culture Co-Evolve in Five Short Stories About Ideas (via 1982)
file this under the shit-load of under appreciated people who you never learn about in school
via The New Yorker
By accepting this narrative of progress uncritically, imagining that technological change equals historic human betterment, many in Silicon Valley excuse themselves from moral reflection. Put simply, the progress narrative short-circuits moral reflection on the consequences of new technologies.
Eric Giannella
One of the hottest retailers in the country — an empire of goose down and Gore-Tex — REI is not a traditional company at all; rather, it’s a cooperative. REI’s spoils are split among 5.5 million members, each of whom paid $20 and in return get a 10 percent dividend for life on purchases of full-priced items, among other benefits.
Bloomberg
This week, Tony Hsieh issued a challenge to every Zappos employee: self organize or leave.
New post on the challenges of going Holacratic.
Tangram Vector Map
Proof-of-concept demo of creative cartography using animated vectors to present Open Streetmap data (in this case, heavily inspired by TRON). Put together by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and here is what the code for it looks like.
Try it out for yourself here
$80 Billion
That’s the expected cost to taxpayers over 10 years from Obama’s proposed free tuition plan, the White House admitted Friday.
That’s about the cost of 8 months of war in Iraq. Seems like a much better investment of my tax dollars to me.
I bolded
It’s amazing how 80 billion isn’t worth mentioning when it’s about killing people, but is suddenly a huge, horrifying barrier when it’s about improving lives.
Big Firms Create Big Inequality
The authors find that the relationship between the growth in the size of companies and the level of inequality holds across the rich world. They looked at data from 1981 to 2010 on wages and the size of largest firms for 15 countries in the OECD, a club mostly of rich countries. The relationship between rising levels of income inequality and the size of firms was strong. This effect is particularly noticeable in America and Britain, where firms have grown rapidly in recent decades. In America, for instance, the number of workers employed by the country’s 100 biggest firms rose by 53% between 1986 and 2010; in Britain the equivalent figure is 43.5%. On the other hand, in places where the size of firms has not changed much, such as Sweden, or where it has shrunk, such as Denmark, wage inequality has grown much less. Part of what is perceived as a global trend towards greater disparity in wages may actually be the result of the biggest firms employing a greater share of workers.
Source.
Albert Einstein
Looks can be deceiving.
