- Because coordination is expensive | Surfing Complexity (January 2026) - Larger companies move slowly because it takes far more effort to align larger groups of people around a goal. It’s not uncommon for companies of this scale to use specific tools or roles for coordination alone
- Large tech companies don’t need heroes | sean goedecke (February 2026) - Once a company is sufficiently large enough there’s limits to how much impact one person’s heroics can have. Heroics can also be harmful as they shield the company from the effects of the systems they’ve built
- Stay away from my trash! | tldraw (January 2026) - “In a world of AI coding assistants, is code from external contributors actually valuable at all?” With LLMs allowing any open source maintainer to generate code the author wonders if community contributions should instead be limited to other channels like bug reports or discussions
- Stop Looking For Mentors | Stay SaaSy (October 2021) - “Mentor” has too aspirational expectations associated with it. Don’t overthink it. Start by looking for someone who’s willing to answer your questions and see how things unfold
- Drop Bear | Australian Museum - A factsheet on one of Australia’s deadliest animals