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There's another reason for Costco's appeal and trust among members: Kirkland Signature. Costco mandates that any KS product must be at least 10% better in quality than the leading …

The concepts of Semantic Functions and Pragmatic Functions seem to be analogous to a Functional Core and Imperative shell (FCIS): https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-yo…

> He is trully obsessive about getting the most views, almost soullessly designing the perfect viral content, caring about every second. He literally starts with the thumbnail and …

Tom Wolfe, in "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died", Forbes Magazine, 1996 http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/courses/psy115w/Fall02/TomWolf... Which brings us to the second most famous stat…

As half of the pair programming team, why not just give him half of the story points?

"I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, 'What was Apple's greatest contribution to mankind?' it will be about health," Cook told […

Yes, learning NVC can really help in hearing where the other person is coming from. It's also useful for expressing yourself in a way that's least likely to trigger the other perso…

From an IFS perspective, it sounds like DMT introduces parts that guide our attention toward the Self. That's different from regular IFS parts - protectors and exiles - that guide …

Obesity is increasing for animals - pets and even wildlife: https://psmag.com/social-justice/just-people-getting-fatter-...

It sounds like Foucault's concept of a "discursive formation", basically a Kuhn-style paradigm. Foucault was interested in the social conditions and context that enable certain sta…

I can't tell whether this is satire, like "A Modest Proposal".

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - US General George S. Patton It sounds like the expansive freedom in Ho…

Fascinating analysis. While it references Rudy Giuliani's leadership immediately after 9/11 and beyond, Trump is an even more interesting case. It looks like he approaches problems…

From the perspective of a Dot/Graphviz user, this appears to allow you to define a graph, then program how it's laid out. Do I have that correct?

We see similar phenomena in software: "software bloat", "feature creep", the "second system effect" (see Wikipedia for details). Linux provides the same basic functionality as Unix…

Check out "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization" It's a fascinating profile of the pioneering organizational cultures at three companies, Bridgew…

You might also be interested in books that profile other companies experimenting with this kind of transparency: "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux "An Everyone Culture…

Yes, there's growing awareness of this problem. This blog post summarizes the paper "Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt": https://blog.acolyer.org/20…

So, in other words, "Man is the measure of all things" – Protagoras "We see things not as they are. We see things as we are." attributed to Anaïs Nin

As another data point, ITA software took steps to avoided gc-ing: "Because we have about 2 gigs of static data we need rapid access to, we use C++ code to memory-map huge files con…