👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of what was written or said at the interaction of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation, and stood out.
📚 Reading
🏄 Surfing the S-Curve:
The most successful companies make a habit of 1) surfing a rewarding S-curve, and 2) planning ahead so they can shift to the next one.
It’s the signature of every great company that, if it occurs to you to compete with them, you realize you’re a few years behind.
Software isn’t eating the world, it’s building up curves—The Diff
🙇 Managing a News Operation the Netflix Way:
My generation of journalists, totally untrained to become managers, let a culture of complacency and alleged intellectual superiority prevail where we should have changed the game and focused on innovation, creativity, and agility.
Always be catching that next curve, Netflix style—Monday Note
🙅 Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox:
You might follow a publication, but it’s more likely you care about an individual reporter or writer or YouTuber or podcaster. People are increasingly willing to pay to support those people.
The unbundling is clear, but will it rebundle into a proper CMS stack or another publisher still—New York Times
🎧 Listening
The Passion Economy:
If the last 100 years were about being employed at a company in order to reach customers, the huge change is where now workers can go directly to customers. The only requirement for that to be the case, is for them to do non-commoditized work and the customer care for whom they dealing with.
Adam Davidson & Li Jin—Means of Creation
An Evil Creation:
The economy is not where the action is. We can restore the economy. The thing to watch is what is happening to our social fabric, to our political institutions, our norms.
Paul Romer—Danny in the Valley
The Reality Test:
Does your company go to heaven?
Robert Rowland Smith—The Wicked Podcast
📬 Suggestions?
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