Duct Taping Your Org Chart, The right way to Use ‘Code-Yellows’ at Your Startup, Do AI Assembly Assistants Make You Extra Current, and MORE+++ [link blog]

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The Artwork of Taking It Gradual [Anne Wiener/The New Yorker] – Profile of Grant Petersen, founding father of Rivendell Bicycle Works.

Petersen has change into well-known for making stunning bikes, utilizing supplies and parts that his trade has largely deserted, and for selling a imaginative and prescient of biking that’s low-key, purposeful, anti-car, and anti-corporate. He has polarizing opinions and an outsized affect.

A enjoyable piece about making, commerce, life and contradictions.

Time for a Code-Yellow?: A Blunt Instrument That Works [Nilam Ganenthiran/Beacon Software] – If you happen to learn my earlier weblog submit [an interview with Nilam], you then may need already encountered this essay. It’s an important abstract of ‘code-yellows’ from his time at Instacart.

Throughout a code-yellow, a pacesetter can escalate a venture/state of affairs to a conflict room state of affairs, pulling individuals out of their day-to-day work to focus fully on the issue at hand. It’s alluring as a result of it permits for current plans to be deprioritized, removes any/all ambiguity round what’s most necessary in the intervening time, and strongly encourages the staff to sacrifice the ‘L’ and ‘B’ from Work-Life-Stability. 

My private perception is that the ‘right’ frequency for Code-Yellows will not be incessantly but in addition not by no means.

Duct Tape [Molly Graham/Glue Club] – Molly’s an important working exec who makes frequent appearances in my hyperlink blogs. This one is about ‘duct tape,’ interim org selections that gained’t maintain endlessly, however can maintain itself lengthy sufficient to give attention to different pressing wants first.

Examples of duct tape embrace:

– an excellent proficient learner chief paired with an outdoor advisor (be sure to set clear expectations up entrance that you just’ll ultimately layer the learner chief)

– an exterior fractional chief (somebody who has carried out the job earlier than at greater scale to allow them to simply do your function with 1/2 or much less of their time)

– bundling two orgs collectively underneath one chief that you’ll ultimately break up aside (eg, your eng chief can run product or vice versa, your advertising and marketing chief can run gross sales or vice versa, and many others)

Utilizing AI to be extra current and efficient in your conferences due to Granola [Alex Rainert] – I too have discovered myself much less distracted throughout conferences on account of AI notetakers like Granola. Generally my arms don’t even contact the keyboard and I simply depend on the AI to supply a abstract of key factors. I’ll verbalize a selected thought or develop on a query simply to get it ‘heard’ by the bot, as a way to ‘mark’ a spot within the abstract that’s necessary to me, so it does calmly begin to form the assembly in a approach, not only a passive collector. We’ve undoubtedly hit a tipping level and it’s best to now go into each video assembly assuming you’re being recorded. Which may really feel icky nevertheless it’s the brand new regular.

The Observer [a great free Substack about strangeness, UFOs, things that go bump in the night, etc] – If one thing titled “Killer Kodaks and Soul-Snatching Shutterbugs” (about horror movies and myhts involving the thought a digital camera can have mystical properties) will increase your coronary heart charge then this electronic mail publication is likely to be for you.

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