Jessica Hayes Aug 1, 2020 · 8 min read Clearly Mark, Travis and Tom never worked in a team with a really good People Ops function. In my experience, there are two sides to my job; People Operations —
Happy Friday! A bit of a programming note: I'm taking next week off. It's Thanksgiving, and I'll be on the road to New York City and Pennsylvania for much of the week, and honestly, I need to take a s
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This post is long overdue. Let’s get it over with. 🛑 Hey! If you write a comment about this article online, disclose your stake in cryptocurrency. I will explain why later in this post. For my part, I
Remote Work How to Humanize Async Work Team culture is primarily built by how you work together, not how you socialize together. Illustration by Yin Weihung If you made it this far… Chances are you’ll
One of the most misquoted sayings in business is “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. This statement (and its variations) is often meant to say that, to improve something, we need a precise
T he election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong.
I used to think Christians were stupid. I grew up in Colorado Springs, a deeply conservative area in Colorado home to Pikes Peak, the Air Force Academy, and megachurches. My classmates would come in o
As a reminder, and you likely need one since my last newsletter came out last December, I’m Eugene Wei, a former product executive at companies like Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, and Oculus, with a stint i
Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She
Hi everyone! This missive contains a recap of my columns on digital culture for The New Yorker and a B-side essay that helped me figure out my column on how social-media interfaces manipulate us . (Th
A decade ago, I picked up a chunky, promising new science fiction novel, Leviathan Wakes, and found that something in the world really stuck with me: something about how it was both a grounded and amb
Updated at 9:28 a.m. on September 21, 2021. For nearly two years now, Americans have lived with SARS-CoV-2. We know it better than we once did. We know that it can set off both acute and chronic illne
[Tenuous thoughts about the last two Low albums and (post)digital aesthetics…] I think Low’s Double Negative (2018) is a legit masterpiece, a shocking right-angle for a band in their fourth active dec
Readers of my previous gestures of blogging may wonder at the first post of this new endeavor. For many years, I wrote blogs as a set of summaries of my own photography process, an exploration of the
If you love working from home, it’s because of the “extended mind” Clive Thompson 2 hours ago · 7 min read A year and a half into remote work, a cultural divide has emerged: Most people either love it
The story behind humanity’s greatest environmental success is too rarely told and too often taken for granted. This is how humanity fixed the ozone layer and why it matters. Science When it comes to s
By Wesley Hill A s I prepare to begin my 10th year as a seminary professor, I’m going to begin the biblical capstone class I’ll be teaching by recommending that my students consider taking up a habit
Phys Ed High-intensity interval training has surprising benefits for fitness and physical power, but don’t stay seated the rest of the day. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times By Published Aug.
I didn’t know Justin Welsh until a few months ago when he signed up for Outseta, although I recognized his shadowy face against a black background from updates I’d stumbled across on Linkedin. The upd
You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks. Back in 2010, Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzma
The first time I remember shopping for music was at a Best Buy one day in 2001. I came home with two CDs: the Baha Men’s Who Let the Dogs Out and the pop compilation Now That’s What I Call Music! 5. E
A fter years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey. It was not
What moving to a new state can teach you about your business Categories: Krit Culture Written by Andrew Askins I’m writing this from my new home office in Detroit, Michigan. Last week I packed all of
The Wanderlust Group Jul 1 · 6 min read A retrospective by The Wanderlust Group CEO, Mike Melillo. It is a fascinating time for workplace culture. Over the last year companies all over the world dove
Hundreds of North Americans – and perhaps many more yet to be tallied – have died of heat-related illness over the past week after a mind-boggling heat wave struck the U.S. Pacific Northwest U.S. and
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HubSpot 1 day ago · 4 min read By Katie Burke, Chief People Officer at HubSpot A recent USA Today poll suggests that 40% of Americans wish to continue working remotely aft e r the pandemic. 84% of emp
At Happy Cog, I’m fortunate to be able to lean on the incredible wealth of knowledge and experience of our team to surface new ideas, give me a starting point, help me over a hump, or point me back in
Feature 2021 F1 RULES: The Key Changes Explained Editor-in-chief Jonny Reynolds 31 October 2019 Rules Share A bold new vision for the future of F1 has been unveiled. But what’s actually changing? We'v
Spring 2020 Thoughtful Americans are realizing that the pervasive IT-revolution devices upon which we are increasingly dependent are affecting our society and culture in significant but as yet uncerta
I recently ran across Wildbit’s video celebrating 20-years of business on their website. Wildbit’s business is inspiring, especially as a software company. You might know Wildbit as the makers of Post
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“Europeans didn’t only disinherit Aztecs and Incas. Continuously, since the sixteenth century, we have been disinheriting ourselves.” —John Moriarty “There is no bloodless myth will hold.” —Geoffrey H
“Plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.” —Oxford Dictionary of English A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “ There’s a Name for the Blah
We need to talk about your Q3 roadmap This post originally appeared in my newsletter . Subscribe to receive it! Hi, managers! Pull up a chair. Thanks to the privilege of working as a coach, I have an
There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week; I’m not going to get into the specifics of various accusations made about various individuals, or their responses; however, I do
For some of us—isolates, happy in the dark—code is therapy, an escape and a path to hope in a troubled world. A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the g