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"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea. \ stacker news ~Design

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...

Feedback doesn't scale

Feedback doesn't scale | Another Rodeo

Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.

 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 ~Design

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...

Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game

Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game

Sort colors, create gradients, find your daily calm.

 ## 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. 

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Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game \ stacker news ~Design

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....

"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.

 > _“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 ~Design

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...

"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.

 > _“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 ~Design

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...

Disagree and Let’s See

Ben Werdmuller

"Disagree and Let’s See"

"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.

 > _“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 ~Design

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...

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.

 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 ~Design

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...

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

 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 ~Design

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...

@deSign_r revives nostalgia with "Vanguart Black Hole Tourbillon - The Watch without" - never looked so fresh. Feel inspired by its #designInspiration & #creativity:

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Vanguart Black Hole Tourbillon - The Watch without \ stacker news ~Design

THE BLACKHOLE APPROACHES THE LANDSCAPE OF FUTURISM WHILE EVOKING A SENSE OF WONDER AND POSSIBILITY. The Black Hole Tourbillon answers with a joysti...

Fresh insight from @deSign_r: "A simple python decorator, build UI forms out of your everyday python functions". The ancient arts lives on. Explore #design & #creativity:

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A simple python decorator, build UI forms out of your everyday python functions \ stacker news ~Design

Python UI-Me (as in: Python methods saying "make elegant UI forms out of me") is a tiny-but-mighty package that turns your everyday functions into ...