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Multiple trends combining to reach a tipping point, mainly decreased appetite for capital investment by the west, inflation expectations becoming increasingly embedded and pandemic…

Some interesting parallels between the 1970's and the 2020's, both seeing global economic growth stagnating after a protracted boom period ending in major economic crises, inducing…

We've been in a deflationary cycle (driven by technology & globalisation) for decades, so inflation hasn't been so relevant. With that cycle now concluding it's likely that inflati…

"The map is not the territory" is so widely known as to be almost a truism, but the post's conclusion is an excellent, pithy summary of the practical implications of this idea: > y…

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I think there is a simpler explanation, that has nothing to do with technology, productivity, or society: big companies are naturally inefficient internally (due to complexity) but…

Another example: if somebody asks you to do a random task (which is essential, very important, top priority), then a tiny amount of push back - e.g. sending an email asking for cla…

Could you give an example of this please?

I almost reflexively closed the tab just from reading this comment.

Probably too late to this thread, but anyway - the key to understanding agile tomfoolery is that processes are most effective if they evolve to meet the needs of the people in the …

One of HN's favourite quotes applies here too: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Ironically, the incentiv…

The term refers to people who don't try to get into the art world in-group but still create interesting things, so "outsider" is an accurate and literal description of their status…

From a little personal experimentation I've been surprisingly impressed. It helps winding down before bed after a hard day, but also helps to settle the mind for work, and doesn't …

I was curious about this since it seems unlikely SF can be so much more expensive than London. When I looked into it a couple of months ago, I found zone 1 London rents are a fair …

Those numbers look quite wrong, I don't think they're comparing like-for-like. For consumer goods it seems they're comparing a cheap UK supermarket to Whole Foods in SF, and for re…

Make a Mess, Clean it Up! http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Make_a_Mess,_Clea...

Documentation has some great properties as something to work on in early days (so long as you aren't immediately firefighting). * Documentation always sucks, no-one wants to do it,…

The idea that vegetarians/vegans need to be "counting amino acids" is a myth - any reasonable diet containing grains and legumes will give sufficient protein. For example rice and …

This article is about the UK, where adult ADHD is very rarely diagnosed, let alone medicated, compared with the US.

OKRs sound like a reasonable idea, but in my experience appear to be prohibitively difficult to implement successfully, imposing a considerable burden across the organization which…

Wow, sprint retrospective retrospective sounds nightmarish. I've never worked in a team nearly that dysfunctional, but I wonder if the blame is due to agile, or perhaps that team w…

The primary purpose of Agile ceremonies (if done correctly) is to provide a structured way to surface and resolve resource and process issues (as well as prioritize) in a way that …