think well of ourselves and feel that the narrative of our life story is a positiveone. Being wrong doesn’t fit into that narrative. If we think of beliefs as only100% right or 100% wrong, when confronting new information that mightcontradict our belief, we have only two options: (a) make the massive shift inour opinion of ourselves from 100% right to 100% wrong, or (b) ignore ordiscredit the new information. It feels bad to be wrong, so we choose (b)

It’s particularly important for leaders and managers to model the culture that the company tries to foster.

85% of leaders say that the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive

The strain is clear: in an average week, 42% of participants multitask during meetings by actively sending an email or ping—and that doesn’t include practices like reading incoming emails and pings, working in non-meeting files, or web activity

Employees have embraced flexible work and its benefits and are rejecting a return to hustle culture

The initial excitement about WFH has worn off and I've become conscious of the depressing alienation that remote work is causing.

but slowly realised that complete remote working was an alienating experience that has diminished the boundaries between work and leisure

Did the code written by the developer reliably do what it was supposed to do?

What all these bad goals have in common is that they're arbitrary.

Establish structured daily check-ins: Many successful remote managers establish a daily call with their remote employees.

(F)unctionalSifting:APrivacy-PreservingReputationSystemThroughMulti-InputFunctionalEncryption(extendedversion)

I remember reading Matt Bruenig when I was in college, and he was like, “Well, actually Social Security was the most effective pathway to bring people out of poverty.”  I wrote a story in 2017 called “Why Education Is Not the Key to a Good Income,” and it was looking at this growing body of research that showed it was not your level of education that determined your chances of rising economic mobility. It was these other factors—like what kind of industries were in your community, union density, some of it was marriage. 

“Creators want to create. Creators don't need to be paid to create. However, creators also need to eat. Creators need to have homes. Creators can't create so long as they aren't free to create,”

(1) Removal of the offending agent (the influential person with severe symptoms). (2) Dismantling systems of thought control—common in advertising but now also heavily adopted by politics. And (3) fixing the socioeconomic conditions that give rise to poor collective mental health in the first place.

At some point, it clicked: Creators make money so they can make stuff, instead of the other way around. Why not adopt this framing at Gumroad, too?

We also have an “anti-overtime” rate: past twenty hours a week, people can continue to work at an hourly rate of 50 percent. This allows us to have a high hourly rate for the highest leverage work and also allows people to work more per week if they wish.

The challenges that come with remote work can be deceptive: If you’ve transitioned from an in-office role, it might seem like the best thing to do is to try and recreate all of the experiences that come with an office environment. But being remote is not the same as sharing a physical space. Instead of trying to replicate the in-office atmosphere, we must adapt—or even wholly reconsider—those experiences for the distributed context.

What aspects of being in an office do we care about the most?

The same rules apply to giving a well-formed and carefully considered answer.

n IPv4 there’s a protocol called dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) so as long as you can find a DHCP server you can get all the information you need to connect (local address, router, DNS server, time server, etc). However, this service has to be set up by someone and IPv6 is designed to configure a network without it.

a “change agent” does not have to be the person in authority, but they do however have to have a clear vision and be able to communicate that clearly with others.

(change agents) – People who act as catalysts for change…

So although a change agent can trigger growth in an organization, the culture in which they exist or are brought into has a huge bearing on their success.

Science experiments for kids, delivered to your door

Notes on preparing a tech talk

OpenBSD on a Laptop

A more compelling vision, grounded in a materialist analysis of the conditions of production, would be a world where no one needs to get paid for these contributions because their material needs are taken care of through other means.

Remote jobs for junior developers.

Go cheatsheet

TLA+ is a high-level language for modeling programs and systems--especially concurrent and distributed ones.

Essays on programming I think about a lot

The educational system is not dedicated to produce learning by students, but teaching by teachers—and teaching is a major obstruction to learning. Witness the difference between the ease with which we learned our first language without having it taught to us, and the difficulty with which we tried to learn a second language in school. Most of what we use as adults we learned once we got out of school, not while we were in it, and what we learned in school we forgot rapidly—fortunately. Most of it is either wrong or obsolete within a short time. Although we learn little of use by having it taught to us, we can learn a great deal by teaching others. It is always the teacher who learns most in a classroom. Schools are upside down. Students should be teaching, and teachers at all levels should learn no matter how much they resist doing so.

Communication systems are adapted to the needs of the work, not the needs of the hierarchy.