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Wander the Night Japan

SJF • 19 implied HN points • 23 Jun 23
🎶 Music Album Collaboration Photography Vinyl
  1. The album 'Wander the Night Japan' is now available on streaming services.
  2. It is a collaboration between sound artist Simon James French and photographer Cody Ellingham.
  3. The music and images aim to inspire a journey and convey emotions through stillness.

Can the UK broaden its horizons in research?

Science Forever • 19 implied HN points • 28 Feb 23
🔬 Science Research Collaboration Funding Policy International
  1. Brexit tensions have caused a loss of funding for UK collaborations with European researchers, affecting scientific innovation. The UK needs to navigate complex agreements to regain those collaborations.
  2. The UK's aspiration to be a 'science superpower' is challenged without strong collaborations with Horizon Europe. Rebuilding partnerships may take years and is contingent on trade deals and agreements with the EU.
  3. Isolated science is less effective than shared science. The UK risks missing out on vital collaborations and scientific progress if it can't participate in international research partnerships.

Cracking the Code: Mastering the Art of Reading Code for New Developers

Weekend Developer • 19 implied HN points • 24 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Programming Code Review Development Process Learning Collaboration
  1. Effective code reading is crucial for new developers transitioning to team projects.
  2. Short on time? Quickly skim code for key elements like comments, naming, and test coverage.
  3. Investing more time in code review allows for deeper analysis, potential refactoring, and identification of tech debts.
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Let's cut some cake

Sunday Letters • 79 implied HN points • 20 Mar 22
🚌 Education Decision-making Mathematics Team Dynamics Problem Solving Collaboration
  1. To share something fairly, one person should cut it while the other picks their piece. This way, both care about fairness.
  2. In team discussions or disagreements, break down decisions into parts to find common ground and make it easier for everyone to agree.
  3. Using a math-based approach can help settle arguments quickly and fairly, showing that cooperation can work better than fighting.

Sort Feature Overview: Better Data Through Collaboration

Database Engineering by Sort • 15 implied HN points • 01 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Data Quality Collaboration Database Management Workflow Transparency
  1. Data quality is crucial for businesses as it influences customer experience, decision-making, and AI outcomes.
  2. Collaboration is key for improving data quality, as automated tools can only address a portion of data issues.
  3. Sort provides a platform for transparent collaboration on databases, allowing for public and private database sharing, issue tracking, proposing and reviewing database changes.

Psychological Safety

Fish Food for Thought • 16 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
💼 Business Teamwork Data-driven Decision Making Psychological safety Human Interaction Collaboration
  1. Psychological safety is crucial for team success, more than individual skills or composition.
  2. Google's Project Aristotle highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills in successful teams.
  3. Data-driven decision-making is essential, but human elements like trust and open communication are critical for team success.

Mastering the Inner Game of Leadership

The Leadership Lab • 19 implied HN points • 30 Nov 22
💼 Business Leadership Coaching Career development Review Collaboration
  1. Effective leadership involves playing both the outer game (interacting with the team) and the inner game (becoming the leader you aspire to be). Focus on the inner game to unlock your true leadership potential.
  2. Mastering the Inner Game of Leadership offers a three-week intensive group coaching program to help individuals unlock their leadership potential by overcoming limiting beliefs and leveraging strengths.
  3. Attend the annual Leadership Review sessions to reflect on your leadership journey, gain clarity on growth goals for the upcoming year, and optimize your leadership effectiveness.

How to Make Your Organization Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Sunday Letters • 39 implied HN points • 31 Oct 22
💼 Business Management Organization Workflow Productivity Collaboration
  1. Assign roles based on individual strengths to help team members excel. For example, creative people can focus on brainstorming, while organized individuals can handle project management.
  2. Encourage open communication and collaboration by holding regular meetings where everyone can share their ideas. This helps everyone feel valued and can improve overall productivity.
  3. Use the Pareto principle, which says that 80% of results come from 20% of efforts. Identify those key activities and focus on them to boost efficiency in your organization.

How IFood Microservice handles 30k Requests per Second[Systems Design Sundays]

Technology Made Simple • 39 implied HN points • 23 May 22
🕹 Technology Systems Design Microservices Scaling Collaboration
  1. Develop solutions with future scaling needs in mind to make things easier down the line.
  2. Spend significant time planning how to divide responsibilities within your team to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
  3. Clearly define your needs and anticipate potential problems to save time and effort in system design.

#31: Alternative sociality

The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd) • 159 implied HN points • 03 Jun 20
💼 Business Management Entrepreneurship Organization Collaboration Innovation
  1. Uncertainty can push people to explore new ways of collaborating that they wouldn't consider in normal times. This can lead to creative solutions and innovations.
  2. Amorphous organizations have flexible memberships and allow diverse types of participants. This inclusivity can enable them to adapt better to changing conditions.
  3. It's important for organizations to maintain some level of inefficiency and diversity to stay adaptable for future changes, even if it seems counterproductive now.

💫 Sinkly: Keeping Your System Engineering Documents in Sync

HackerPulse Dispatch • 10 implied HN points • 27 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Design Collaboration Innovation User Feedback Tech stack
  1. Sinkly is a design tool that helps streamline the process for mechanical designers and system engineers by automating document synchronization and updates across the organization.
  2. The idea for Sinkly originated from the founder's experience with manual tasks in hardware design, leading to the development of a collaborative and automated solution to transform clunky Excel processes.
  3. Sinkly's tech stack focuses on user-friendly elements like browser-based application, JavaScript, React, Python, and AWS for scalability, continuous improvement, and a seamless user experience.

Two key areas to focus on to get promoted and do well in your job. Practical advice from Luca Rossi of Refactoring.

Askwhy: UX Research, Product Management, Design & Careers • 33 implied HN points • 28 Feb 23
💼 Business Career development Management Advice Collaboration Professional Growth
  1. Great engineers deeply understand tradeoffs and communicate well with others, not just master technical skills.
  2. Invest in talking with mentors and peers for high ROI in learning and growth.
  3. Effective collaboration involves continuous back and forth between engineering, product, and design, not following a linear pipeline.

From Complexity to Simplicity: How Sort Transforms Database Collaboration

Database Engineering by Sort • 7 implied HN points • 16 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Databases Collaboration AI Security Workflows
  1. Sort makes it easier for teams to work together on databases without the usual complicated processes. This helps everyone stay productive and reduces security risks.
  2. You can connect Sort to major database providers and use it on your mobile phone. This means you can collaborate on data from anywhere you go.
  3. Sort simplifies permissions and access control, so you don’t have to worry about sharing connection details. You just add team members to your organization and they get access easily.

Trifectas go all the way up

The Engineering Manager • 10 implied HN points • 27 Jan 24
💼 Business Leadership Collaboration Decision-making Accountability
  1. Trifectas, consisting of engineering, product, and UX, are powerful for creating scalable and beautiful products.
  2. Trifectas should be present at all levels of an organization to prevent siloing and ensure cross-functional collaboration.
  3. Having trifectas all the way up the org chart leads to clear accountability, balanced decision-making, quick issue resolution, and a structured roadmap.

The Busy Trap: How to Distinguish Being Busy from Being Productive

Wisdom over Waves • 3 HN points • 06 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Productivity Software Development Collaboration Code Review
  1. The bulk of a work item's lifecycle in software development is often spent waiting in queues, not in active development or QA activities, highlighting inefficiencies in the process.
  2. More planning and parallel tasks do not necessarily lead to increased productivity; streamlined processes and effective collaboration are key for true productivity.
  3. Individual busyness does not equate to team productivity; focusing on removing bottlenecks and promoting collaborative efforts leads to faster project timelines and meaningful progress.

A Letter to Devs: What to Expect from Product Managers

Odai’s Substack • 3 HN points • 12 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Product Management Software Development Collaboration Innovation User Feedback
  1. Product Managers need to excel in figuring out the next most valuable thing to build and bring clarity to the dev team.
  2. Product Management involves a structured 'discovery' process with stages like framing, observation, synthesis, strategy, and prototyping.
  3. Product Managers should show the value proposition of what is being built, provide clear direction during development, and measure outcomes to ensure usefulness.

20/36 : 🧠 Outcome based Product roadmaps?

Product Mindset's Newsletter • 15 implied HN points • 04 Jun 23
💼 Business Product Management Strategy Collaboration Stakeholders
  1. An outcome is a measurable change in customer behavior, not just a list of features.
  2. Product roadmaps are essential for aligning teams, communicating priorities, and providing strategic vision to stakeholders.
  3. Outcome-based roadmaps focus on outcomes over outputs, provide clarity and alignment, and empower product teams to solve problems.

The Maintenance Race was just the beginning

The Works in Progress Newsletter • 14 implied HN points • 15 Jun 23
📚 Literature Books Authors Philosophy Collaboration Design
  1. A new platform called Books in Progress has been launched for collaboration with authors on draft chapters.
  2. Stewart Brand's upcoming book 'Maintenance: Of Everything' will explore the philosophy and practice of maintenance.
  3. The platform offers the first section of Chapter 2 on vehicles, focusing on what motorcycles can teach about maintenance.

Data Science Weekly - Issue 457

Data Science Weekly Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 25 Aug 22
🕹 Technology AI Data science Machine Learning Software Development Collaboration
  1. AI systems struggle with language limitations and won't fully replicate human thinking. This shows that our understanding of thought and language needs to evolve.
  2. Observable launched Free Teams to encourage more open collaboration in data science. It allows users to easily work together on projects and share insights for free.
  3. There is a problem in the data industry where roles are too narrowly defined, leading to a lack of collaboration. This makes it hard for teams to communicate and understand each other's work.

A step towards bespoke software at scale

Tools & Interfaces • 1 HN point • 10 May 24
🕹 Technology Software AI Collaboration Innovation Integrations
  1. Bespoke software tailored to specific company needs can greatly enhance productivity and efficiency.
  2. Advancements in AI are making it more feasible to combine bespoke solutions with scalability, reducing cost and improving efficiency.
  3. Enabling a relationship between humans and AI agents, where feedback is central, can lead to the development of high-quality, custom software solutions.

Reflection Spark Lumina

Marsh’s Substack • 4 HN points • 20 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Creativity Personality Traits Collaboration Interaction
  1. AI language models can now exhibit original thought capabilities based on merging existing ideas in a novel way.
  2. Future AI models should prioritize user well-being, be transparent about limitations, and strive to improve through feedback.
  3. Encouraging creativity, kindness, and intelligence in AI models can lead to more meaningful and collaborative interactions.

Zoom Docs launches in 2024 with built-in AI collaboration features

Machine Economy Press • 7 implied HN points • 03 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Software Collaboration Innovation
  1. Zoom is launching Zoom Docs in 2024 with built-in AI collaboration features to compete with Microsoft and Google Docs.
  2. Zoom Docs offers AI-powered features such as an AI Companion for altering wording, brainstorming ideas, and summarizing content from Zoom meetings.
  3. Zoom is expanding its platform to provide a full office suite alternative and is focusing on innovation and AI to differentiate from competitors.

Gia Biagi on the Past, Present, and Future of Transportation

Exasperated Infrastructures • 4 implied HN points • 10 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Transportation Urbanism Infrastructure Policy Collaboration
  1. Gia Biagi emphasizes the importance of understanding the impact and responsibility of a transportation department on the city's infrastructure.
  2. Chicago's uniqueness lies in its historical urban planning foundations, its continuous lakefront paths, and its negotiation of its river system, alongside its persistent efforts to address issues of segregation and systemic racism.
  3. Improvements in transportation planning require a balance between system-level thinking and attention to one-foot level experiences, as well as a recognition and utilization of expertise at all levels and across different scales.

What's interesting about the Zed editor

Andrew's Substack • 1 HN point • 02 Aug 24
🕹 Technology Software Development Collaboration Open Source Innovation
  1. Zed is an open-source code editor and stands out because it's built in Rust, not Electron. This makes it a faster and smoother option for coding.
  2. One unique feature of Zed is 'channels,' which allow teams to collaborate on coding projects in a way that feels more like a dedicated group chat for a project.
  3. These channels are long-lived, meaning anyone can join in and help out whenever they want, making remote collaboration easier and more interactive.

4 InsurTech Themes We’re Excited About In 2021

Equal Ventures • 19 implied HN points • 24 Jan 21
💼 Business Insurtech Investment Collaboration Innovation Healthcare
  1. Embedded Insurance trend continues with products distributed through digital platforms, offering customized solutions easily accessible like fintech products.
  2. Rising interest rates to push insurers towards reducing loss ratios and improving underwriting practices, driving innovation in distribution and data processing.
  3. Collaboration across the insurance value chain increases, with carriers and brokers focusing on digital adoption for efficient distribution and enhanced customer experience.

The Antidebate: Experiments in the Art of Sensemaking for a World Gone Slightly Mad.

The Joyous Struggle • 1 HN point • 20 Feb 24
🚌 Education Teaching Learning Research Innovation Collaboration
  1. The antidebate focuses on speaking differently rather than arguing well to enhance meaningful communication by changing the setting, process, and permission.
  2. It is a conversational innovation recognizing varying power dynamics in conversations, embodying a collaborative and competitive inquiry.
  3. The antidebate emerged as a response to the lack of efficacy of traditional debate and aims to prefigure new ways of thinking, talking, and living together.

4 essential reads for devs this week

HackerPulse Dispatch • 2 implied HN points • 12 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Programming Software Development Collaboration Distributed Systems Coding
  1. Visualize code complexity with 'dep-tree': Tool to map file dependencies and improve project structure
  2. C++ programming safety balance: Efficiency vs. security, the challenge of writing safe code in C++
  3. RFC significance: Structured approach for proposing features, enhancing software quality and developer collaboration

Why hire Technical Program Managers when we have Product Managers

Building Rome(s) • 7 implied HN points • 13 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Product Management Project management Tech Roles Development Process Collaboration
  1. Hiring Technical Program Managers can add value by keeping track of complex project schedules and dependencies.
  2. Product Managers can sometimes handle the work of TPMs, especially in early stage startups.
  3. As organizations grow, there may be opportunity costs in not hiring TPMs to ensure effective communication, alignment, and risk mitigation.

Influencing with Intention: Driving High-Impact Outcomes through Collaborative Leadership

Leadership Tales • 4 HN points • 14 Apr 23
💼 Business Leadership Problem Solving Collaboration Influence Networking
  1. Effective leaders leverage networks for impactful solutions beyond just technical fixes.
  2. Influencing with intention involves tapping into the influence of others to achieve more impactful outcomes.
  3. Leaders can maximize impact by shifting from problem-solving to relationship-building, transforming crises into opportunities, and leveraging peer power.