A non-exhaustive log of some interesting recently-added notes: [[Asymmetric Justice]] ## 2023-12-18 Mon [[Five levels of delegation]] [[Hyrum's Law - the interface runs deeper than you think]] [[Types of Not-Knowing]] [[Reasons to open source]] [[Conversation skills]] [[GIA Colour grading system]] [[What are different kinds of monitoring for]] [[All the things that could go wrong in a large tech company]] [[When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers]] [[It scales if it's hard to get wrong, not hard to get right]] [[I used to judge my success by how many unpleasant things I could force myself to do]] [[AI Horrorlog]] [[Artificial Intelligence]] [[I have a new business jokes]] [[Embodied Strategy]] [[Corpspeak and business jargon]] [[Social media addictiveness can be improved if you don't force the user to commit to the identity represented by their real preferences]] ## 2022-07-28 Thu [[Organisation Design]] [[Organisation Change Management]] [[Three modes of organisational control]] [[Shape, size, risk of organisation design experiments]] [[Org design isn't copy-pastable between different organisations]] [[How organisations are like slime mould]] [[Constellation Software]] [[Holacracy]] [[Fundamental attribution error]] [[Forer effect]] ## 2022-07-24 Sun [[3 Minute Mountain Legs]] [[Asshole filters]] [[Gemstone Rough]] ## 2022-05-04 Wed [[Who is responsible for fixing communication problems, speaker or listener]] [[Taupo supervolcano]] [[Privacy vs Secrecy]] ## 2022-03-11 Fri [[Strategy Frameworks]] [[Five Forces framework]] [[PEST or PESTLE Analysis]] ## 2022-03-05 Sat [[Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - The Difference and Why It Matters (Richard Rumelt)]] - notes and summary [[Smooth-Sailing fallacy]] [[Social Herding fallacy]] [[The Inside View fallacy]] [[Risk-seeking incentives]] [[Engineering Overreach]] [[Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty]] [[SLOs and rare events]] [[What are we trying to do with SLOs]] ## 2022-02-12 Sat [[Difficult-to-parse English syntax]] [[Heuristics That Almost Always Work]] [[Nuanced communication doesn't work at scale - create one clear message]] [[Vendor Lock-in and Public Cloud Platforms]] [[Do not let doubt reap what was sowed in faith]] [[Maltodextrin sports nutrition gel recipe]] ## 2022-01-21 Fri [[We can solve any problem by introducing an extra layer of indirection]] Edited: [[Network Effects]] [[Live deliberately]] ## 2022-01-10 [[web3, speculative bubbles and promises of decentralisation]] [[Audit of open source doesn't guarantee anything because it's a snapshot and not the only trust layer involved]] ## 2022-01-06 [[Gemstone Faceting]] [[Shooting Stars as a Service]] [[Brachyscome angustifolia (Fresco Candy)]] [[Actinotus helianthi - Flannel flower (Starbright)]] [[Rajma curry recipe]] [[Alocasia wentii]] [[Zamioculcas zamiifolia - ZZ plant (Jungle Warrior)]] [[Leptospermum scoparium (Burgundy Queen)]] ## 2021-12-12 Sun [[Black sesame and mushroom sauce with green vegetables]] [[Retaining walls]] [[Dave Akin's laws of spacecraft design]] ## 2021-12-03 Fri [[Medical screening, survival rate, overdiagnosis and lead-time bias]] ## 2021-11-20 Sat [[Moderation of Augmented Reality and Metaverse]] [[Some days you're the pigeon]] [[Regulatory Arbitrage]] ## 2021-11-15 Mon [[Protecting your platform from competition]] [[Create a platform instead of a product]] ## 2021-11-13 Sat [[Thick and thin desires]] [[Implementers, Solvers, and FInders]] [[It is not greed that drives the world, but envy]] [[Grampians Peaks Trail]] ## 2021-11-01 Mon [[You have two cows]] ## 2021-10-13 Wed A great many new plants (again) under [[Garden Log]]. See [[Plants Plus Cumberland Forest orders#2021-10-03]] for some photos ## 2021-10-06 Wed A great many new plant pages under [[Garden Log]], [[Plant and Tree Species]], [[My Gardening]] [[Mornington Crescent]] [[Zendo]] [[How complex systems fail]] ## 2021-09-25 Sat [[The Calf-Path]] [[Care and Feeding of Staff-Plus Engineers]] ## 2021-09-05 Sun [[Adverb puns]] [[What happens when you impose too many rules or restrictions on people's work]] ## 2021-08-10 [[How much energy would it take to boil the ocean]] [[My Gardening]] - decided to clean this up and publish. - [[Garden Log]] - history of everything we plant! - [[Compost Heap]] ## 2021-07-29 Thu [[My Writing]] [[Small Piles Of Words]] [[My Cartoons]]: - [[Cartoon - Bad Product Ideas - Please sign up for our newsletter]] - [[Cartoon - Neutrino Racing]] [[How to avoid people feeling micro-managed]] Quotations: [[Interrogative intonation in declarative sentences]] [[So predictable that he wouldn't pass a Turing test]] [[If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't tell the truth]] [[Over-engineering is poison. It's a lie you have to remember so you don't contradict it]] [[It's a sterile walled garden]] [[Happiness makes up in height, what it lacks in length]] [[Years ago you trusted my opinion]] [[You know what I hate most about being a public figure]] [[What's the problem with Hungarian notation]] [[You're gonna look ridiculous]] [[When the tide goes out, that's when you find out who's been swimming naked]] [[You play cards the way you should live your life]] [[So you'd rather test a new and poorly understood virus on them instead]] [[I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork]] ## 2021-07-28 [[That thing where the presenter is describing the slides]] [[Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal]] [[I'll be arriving at a rate of already here]] [[Focusing on the past is ego. Focusing on the future is pride. Focusing on the present is humility.]] [[Three-point estimation]] ## 2021-07 Newly published this site. Notes date back a year or so, though. Some recently-written things: [[Meta - My Obsidian usage, history and structure]] [[Meta - Why publish my notes]] [[Business Strategy and Competition]] - I brain-dumped some observations about competition in tech industry land and the current economic climate I recently started watching [[The Blacklist]] and wrote about some episodes: [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 1 (Pilot - Zamani)]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 2 (The Freelancer)]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 3 (Wujing)]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 4 (The Stewmaker)]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 5 (The Courier]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 6 (Gina Zanetakos)]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 7 (Frederick Barnes)]] [[The Blacklist S1 Episode 8 (General Ludd)]]