Englishman in California; Photographer; Snowboarder; Recovering adrenaline junky. Founder @RangeDotCo. Formerly: engineering at Medium, Google. He/him
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Also Sonos.
Play 5 stereo pair in the main room.
Play 1 in bedroom.
Port connected to Denon Amp and Martin Logan speakers which are also used for the TV.
I'd probably get an Arc for the TV if I was starting over.
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Also, the evidence on efficacy of brainstorming is spotty at best. It _feels_ good, which does support an important purpose but likely doesn't actually result in better outcomes.
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It's not about simulating real world interactions, but facilitating different interactions that have similar outcomes.
FWIW The biggest gap I see is cultivating belonging, which is necessary for many of these processes.
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Yes! Intentional communication and collaboration is the key.
I do think all 4 classes of work you outlined can be done successfully remotely, lots of evidence that's the case. But it's ok if not everyone wants to spend "innovation tokens" figuring it out. It is still nascent.
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I remember talking to a team pre-covid who was struggling, they were split over two floors and essentially experiencing the same issues we talk about today with naive remote work.
"remote" is really a spectrum.
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The point was that remote work amplifies organizational dysfunctions which already exist, but are either not acute enough to fix or not felt by all.
Practices that make remote-work work, make work better.
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Worth noting that 1870 was close to peak; a time where work weeks were 70hrs and it was common to see children in factories.
By comparison, 14th century casual laborers worked about 1400 hours and 15th century farmer/miner worked about 1900.
Capitalism has so permeated our existence that "average hours worked" has been consistently declining for decades.
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Yeah, labor supply and demand is one piece.
The economy also needs consumption.
Then there's the funding of welfare programs, if the working population declines relative to aged population.
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It's an amazing tool, instead of fighting against the flow, consider org design part of software design.
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kind of can't believe this isn't table stakes by now, or built into the platform. I remember @aaryte spending a bunch of time making this work on Gmail Chat, circa 2006.
A li’l quality-of-life update:
Before, you had to be really precise with your cursor so menus wouldn’t disappear on you. Should feel much more polished now 🫡
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Coaching unconscious incompetence can be really hard.
Even if the person is receptive, "show, don't tell" is better, with guided reflection/self-assessment to reveal gaps and opportunities.
If it's wrapped up in a lack of vulnerability and self-awareness, it's gonna be hard.
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- Poorly crafted OKRs lead to misalignment and confusion.
- Missing strategy for execution, what+why without the how.
- Hidden commitments that consume bandwidth.
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How to accidentally brick your @ArcInternet browser: try restarting using chrome://restart
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Being an amazing synthesizer can compensate some, but for many domains this feels right at that line.
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