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deSign_r 5 months ago
Durable Consumables - On building for permanence in an age of obsolescence
Travers Nisbet
Durable Consumables - Travers Nisbet
Durable Consumables by Travers Nisbet - An essay exploring how accelerating technological progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and wh...
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120325) > Economists distinguish between an asset's physical life and its economic life. The physical life is how long something can function. The economic life is how long it remains useful relative to alternatives. Technology products increasingly have economic lives far shorter than their physical lives. The thing still works. It's just been obsoleted. ... > The frontier keeps moving. Progress keeps accelerating. The rational response is shorter time horizons, faster replacement cycles, less investment in permanence. I understand the logic. I just wonder what we lose when fewer objects around us are built with the assumption that they'll still be here, still working, still ours, decades from now.
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Durable Consumables - On building for permanence in an age of obsolescence \ stacker news
Economists distinguish between an asset's physical life and its economic life. The physical life is how long something can function. The economic l...
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Systems, Stables and Stars
Hardik Pandya
Systems, stables and stars
Why mature organizations still rely on rockstars for critical work, and how systems raise the floor while stars raise the ceiling.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120324) # You can’t make everyone a star performer. I really wanted to believe I could. The instinct is to think “I’ll just coach everyone up to that level.” But the people who can operate in high ambiguity, synthesize across domains, make sound judgment calls under pressure, they’re fundamentally sparse. That’s what makes them exceptional. The goal isn’t to make your entire team interchangeable at the highest level. It’s to accept that star talent will always be non-fungible, and build accordingly. That means two things: First, you need these people on your team. Not later, not “once we can afford it.” If you’re facing problems that could reshape your trajectory and you don’t have anyone who can operate at that level, you’re hoping for luck. Second, you need to use them deliberately. They’re scarce. Burning them out on routine problems is waste. Failing to deploy them on the unprecedented stuff is also waste.
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Systems, Stables and Stars \ stacker news
You can’t make everyone a star performer. I really wanted to believe I could. The instinct is to think “I’ll just coach everyone up to that l...
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Critique • On elevating craft through critical thinking.
DOC • Critique
On elevating craft through critical thinking.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120323) > “The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” > `➪ Norman Vincent Peale` ## A tool to improve design effectiveness A design critique is a structured, collaborative session where designers, peers, and stakeholders evaluate a design artifact to provide constructive feedback and improve the design's effectiveness, quality, and alignment with user needs and business objectives. A good design critique is never about personal taste and should always strive to be as objective as possible. ## Critiques as necessary collisions A critique is not a governance mechanism, nor is it a group brainstorming session. It's a necessary collision. It’s the intentional application of adversarial thought to something that isn't finished yet. Its sole purpose is to pressure-test the underlying assumptions. Ultimately, critiques are about injecting constructive doubt into a designer's premature certainty before they build too much or go too far.
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Critique • On elevating craft through critical thinking. \ stacker news
“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” ➪ Norman Vincent Peale A tool to improve desig...
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Feedback doesn't scale
Feedback doesn't scale | Another Rodeo
Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.
 ![Feedback doesn't scale - Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.](https://m.stacker.news/120155) When you're leading a team of five or 10 people, feedback is pretty easy. It's not even really "feedback”: you’re just talking. You may have hired everyone yourself. You might sit near them (or at least sit near them virtually). Maybe you have lunch with them regularly. You know their kids' names, their coffee preferences, and what they're reading. So when someone has a concern about the direction you're taking things, they just... tell you. You trust them. They trust you. It's just friends talking. You know where they're coming from. At twenty people, things begin to shift a little. You’re probably starting to build up a second layer of leadership and there are multiple teams under you, but you're still fairly close to everyone. The relationships are there, they just may be a bit weaker than before. When someone has a pointed question about your strategy, you probably mostly know their story, their perspective, and what motivates them. The context is fuzzy, but it’s still there.
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Feedback doesn't scale \ stacker news
Feedback doesn't scale - Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale. When you're leading a team of five or 10 people, feedback is p...
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Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game
Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game
Sort colors, create gradients, find your daily calm.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120153) ## How to Play Move the tiles until the gradient is seamless and all the colors flow perfectly into one another. Locked Tiles are in the correct spot. Use them as reference points to help sort the gradient. Use Rotate Hues if you are having trouble seeing the different between colors. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120154)
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Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game \ stacker news
How to Play Move the tiles until the gradient is seamless and all the colors flow perfectly into one another. Locked Tiles are in the correct spot....
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"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.
Ben Werdmuller
"Disagree and Let’s See"
"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.
 ![This feels emotionally honest and an idea I can get behind, as an alternative to the popular “disagree and commit”:](https://m.stacker.news/120152) > _“Disagree and let’s see” allows you to stay aligned with the team without forcing you to pretend you had conviction you didn’t have. It lets you walk into a room with your team and be honest:_ > > _“Here’s the path that was chosen. It wasn’t my first pick, but here’s the experiment we’re running, and here’s what we’re trying to learn.”_ Committing to something you disagree with is an emotional contortion that is hard to do in practice. But the work of every team is a series of experiments at its heart, and by changing the onus from “let’s commit to this thing we don’t all agree with” to “let’s try it and see what happens”, we move from steamrollering dissent to mutually agreeing on an experimental hypothesis and testing it. You’re learning based on agreed criteria. That’s much harder to argue with — and at the end, there’s no “I told you so” or winners and losers. There’s just a “here’s what we learned” and an implied set of next steps. Bliss.
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"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea. \ stacker news
This feels emotionally honest and an idea I can get behind, as an alternative to the popular “disagree and commit”: “Disagree and let’s see...
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deSign_r 5 months ago
"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.
Ben Werdmuller
"Disagree and Let’s See"
"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120152) > _“Disagree and let’s see” allows you to stay aligned with the team without forcing you to pretend you had conviction you didn’t have. It lets you walk into a room with your team and be honest:_ > > _“Here’s the path that was chosen. It wasn’t my first pick, but here’s the experiment we’re running, and here’s what we’re trying to learn.”_ Committing to something you disagree with is an emotional contortion that is hard to do in practice. But the work of every team is a series of experiments at its heart, and by changing the onus from “let’s commit to this thing we don’t all agree with” to “let’s try it and see what happens”, we move from steamrollering dissent to mutually agreeing on an experimental hypothesis and testing it. You’re learning based on agreed criteria. That’s much harder to argue with — and at the end, there’s no “I told you so” or winners and losers. There’s just a “here’s what we learned” and an implied set of next steps. Bliss.
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"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea. \ stacker news
This feels emotionally honest and an idea I can get behind, as an alternative to the popular “disagree and commit”: “Disagree and let’s see...
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deSign_r 5 months ago
Disagree and Let’s See
Ben Werdmuller
"Disagree and Let’s See"
"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120152) > _“Disagree and let’s see” allows you to stay aligned with the team without forcing you to pretend you had conviction you didn’t have. It lets you walk into a room with your team and be honest:_ > > _“Here’s the path that was chosen. It wasn’t my first pick, but here’s the experiment we’re running, and here’s what we’re trying to learn.”_ Committing to something you disagree with is an emotional contortion that is hard to do in practice. But the work of every team is a series of experiments at its heart, and by changing the onus from “let’s commit to this thing we don’t all agree with” to “let’s try it and see what happens”, we move from steamrollering dissent to mutually agreeing on an experimental hypothesis and testing it. You’re learning based on agreed criteria. That’s much harder to argue with — and at the end, there’s no “I told you so” or winners and losers. There’s just a “here’s what we learned” and an implied set of next steps. Bliss.
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"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea. \ stacker news
This feels emotionally honest and an idea I can get behind, as an alternative to the popular “disagree and commit”: “Disagree and let’s see...
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Why great ideas die young—and how leaders can save them https://www.fastcompany.com/91443699/why-great-ideas-die-young-and-how-leaders-can-save-them ![](https://m.stacker.news/120036) One of the most overlooked but essential tools for idea nurturing is what I call “Indicate Behavior.” It’s the act of clearly signaling whether a brainstorming session or meeting is meant for expansive thinking (idea generation) or reductive thinking (evaluation and refinement). Trying to brainstorm and critique simultaneously is like mixing oil and water. People either freeze up or default to safe, surface-level ideas. These cues break critical thinking patterns and invite curiosity, fostering psychological safety by telling the brain, “It’s OK to imagine here.” # THE BENEFITS OF DESIGNING ENVIRONMENTS WHERE RISK FEELS SAFE Ideas don’t grow in fear. They grow in environments where risk-taking feels shared. A 2024 study showed that group-based play increases psychological safety by shifting the perceived risk of speaking up from the individual to the group. When people engage in playful, low-stakes interactions, they’re more willing to take creative risks and support each other’s thinking.
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Why great ideas die young—and how leaders can save them \ stacker news
One of the most overlooked but essential tools for idea nurturing is what I call “Indicate Behavior.” It’s the act of clearly signaling wheth...
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Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
Hidde
Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
I would like it to be mostly the people, not mostly the tech companies.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120037) One of the busiest breakout sessions I attended at this year's TPAC was the one about the open web and what threats to consider. I regretted not bringing up my greatest worry: that when people stop visiting websites directly, they're filtering content through an opaque system. The discussion was about threats to the open web due to the emergence of large language models (LLMs). Large parts of the web have always been open. Not just to users, but also to crawling. When search engines crawl, it's seen as a net benefit to websites, especially when it gets them viewers for the ads that support the content. But now there are crawlers aimed at training and answering LLMs. They are a threat when they increase hosting bills (it can be DDOS-like), but they are also a threat when they reduce human visits. When users can access the crawled content without coming to the source website, they may never leave the LLM.
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Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? \ stacker news
One of the busiest breakout sessions I attended at this year's TPAC was the one about the open web and what threats to consider. I regretted not br...
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Your Loneliness Was a Design Decision Made by Your Enemy
Your Loneliness Was a Design Decision Made by Your Enemy
or: they want us isolated because it's easier to sell us shit
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120035) The best days of my life, I barely notice my phone. If I spend the day out in the world, I forget that I have social media accounts that I could be checking, news I could be doomscrolling. The best days of my life, I’m usually, but not always, with people (or my dog, who counts as people) and it simply doesn’t occur to me to look at a tiny screen. Some of the best days of my life are spent in my hammock reading print books. ... We need to get together, because it turns out we have the same enemies: the people who are trying to make us lonely—who are the same people who are trying to make us poor, who are the same people who are drying the lakes to build data centers, who are the same people who are trying to shut down borders, who are the same people who drew those borders in the first place.
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Your Loneliness Was a Design Decision Made by Your Enemy \ stacker news
The best days of my life, I barely notice my phone. If I spend the day out in the world, I forget that I have social media accounts that I could be...
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