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Best take so far on founder mode:  https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2098243 The hosts do a fantastic job of keeping the discussion entertaining, despite its length. Some key takeaways: Oxide write-intensive culture as a mechanism to build trust and keeping the company true to itself: a writing- (and reading-!) intensive company culture does, in fact, allow for scaling the kind of responsibility that Graham thinks of as founder mode the false dichotomy between founder mode and "traditional" manager mode the feat that founder mode will be used to justify all kind of behaviour and decisions Footnote: interestingly they link to the same interview of Brian Chesky that I linked too in my previous posts on the topic.

Two weeks ago, a post by Paul Graham about unconventional company management sparked significant discussion in the Refactoring community. Initially skeptical, I shared my thoughts after reading the post multiple times. Graham's compelling question lingered: what if the common way to run companies isn't the best approach after all? Intrigued by this idea, I decided to delve deeper. I watched two insightful interviews with Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, which I believe offer context to his remarks at the YC event mentioned by Graham: "Leading through uncertainty: A design-led company" (Config 2023) "Brian Chesky's new playbook" I recommend the first video for those short on time. After watching these interviews, I found Chesky's ideas resonating strongly with me. His core philosophy can be distilled to: "If you do what everyone else does, you'll get the same results everyone else gets." This approach seems to be working. Airbnb's impr...

A  post by Paul Graham caught a lot of attraction in the Refactoring community  a couple of weeks ago. I read the post a couple of times, and then rushed to share my thoughts (which I reproduce below). The essence (at the time) is that I was skeptical, even though I think Paul Graham's post asks a compelling question: what if the common way to run companies is not the best after all? Last week I finally had time to watch a couple appearances by Brian Chesky which I believe give an insight into what Brian Chesky might have have said at the YC event mentioned by PG, which is, AFAIU, not publicly available. For the record I watched these two: Leading through uncertainty: A design-led company - Brian Chesky (Config 2023 ) (my recommendation if you're short on time) Brian Chesky’s new playbook and I have to admit his ideas resonated a lot with me. Abstracting to the core I would say that Brian's approach can be summarized as ...

One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel , which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their idea. from executive translation : it reminds me of Shreyas Doshi antithesis principle : everyone can be effective with a good boss, but it's more interesting (and relevant as a hireable skills) to be effective even with a "bad" boss. This KP episode explains it in much more details . It's an alternate take on the old adage: “In calm waters, everyone looks like a good sailor, but in stormy waters, you want to be the one with the experienced captain.” The experienced captain is our ability to handle these situations in imperfect conditions.

My phone has (for all intents and purposes) fully replaced my DSLR, however this poses the question of how to back them up and share them with the rest of the rest of the household. One solution is of course to just enable the cloud storage of choice (Google Photos, Apple iCloud, etc) and for some time I relied on my old, trusty Flickr Pro account with its 1Tb of storage and the automated sync. With Flickr having gone through a few acquisitions I am becoming more and more concerned about whether the sync will keep working and how well. Also, I wanted something that I could run on my home PC (a Mac Mini).