👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of what was written or said at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation, and stood out.
📚 Reading
Avoiding the Fate of Empires:
[I]t is greed, and the transition of a culture from “service to selfishness” that marks a nation’s tipping point into decadence and decline .. As a society’s merchants become its leaders, and material wealth its chief measure of worth, it is almost inevitable that many in the succeeding generations will question the point of accumulating for its own sake.
👌 Meaning and meaningfulness will trump the pursuit of wealth —Quillette
Bus Factor 1:
Imagine working at a company where every single one of your coworkers gives a shit. Imagine knowing that your contributions are important, that the world is different because of your existence.
That’s Bus Factor 1.
💪 Sense of meaning as compensation for work—Applied Divinity Studies
The Psychology Behind TikTok’s Addictive Feed:
Allow users to disengage from your product with a sense of completion. If not, people will associate your product to a never-ending list of tasks (or an addictive slot machine in this case). Not only it might help your long-term user retention, but most importantly…
…it's the Humane thing to do.
🎰 Escape from the slot machine—Growth.Design
🎧 Listening
Good Vibes with James:
Over the past two decades, he's helped create some of the most compelling narratives for some of the most transformational companies. His experience working directly with Steve Jobs at Apple, every day for over a decade and helping to build the world's most loved brand, gives him a unique perspective on brands, and on constructing the narrative for ground-breaking products
James Vincent—Startupfood (YouTube)
The 5 Most Impactful Technologies of 21st Century:
The difference between 20 or 30 years ago and now is that the velocities of change driven by technologies are happening at a level that no one could forecast .. we are at a point right now at the other side of Moore’s Law: technology is evolving faster than Moore’s Law.
Dr James Canton—The Disruptors
China's True Tech Ambitions:
I care about the most boring things in the world. The list of things I’m passionate about other than like typewriters is probably infrastructure and logistics. And at the core of this is that the prime manifestation of what it means to invest in applications is to invest in infrastructure.
Emily de La Bruyere—ChinaTalk
📬 Suggestions?
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