Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes: Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0. Until the last few years, it made sense to talk in terms of a red tribe and a blue tribe when describing political affiliation. (Red Vs Blue) However, this dichotomy no longer provides a sufficient map of the political territory we find ourselves in. (more)

Chet Richards reviews William Dettmer's Logical Thinking Process ISBN:0873897234 coverage of Eli Goldratt's Theory Of Constraints. *Way back in 1988 at Lockheed, a systems engineer suggested using the principles of that discipline to overhaul processes within the company itself – that is, as compared to designing systems to fly through the air. The basic approach was simple: (more)

The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021.[1][2][3] The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 business leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. The news organizations of the ICIJ described the document leak as their most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet, containing documents, images, emails and spreadsheets from 14 financial service companies. In total, 35 current and former national leaders appear in the leak, alongside 400 public officials from nearly 100 countries and more than 100 billionaires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers (more)

The Paradise Papers are a set of over 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments that were leaked to the German reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer,[1][2] from the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.[3] The newspaper shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,[4] and a network of more than 380 journalists. Some of the details were made public on 5 November 2017 and stories are still being released... The documents originate from the legal firm Appleby, the corporate services providers Estera and Asiaciti Trust, and business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions.[5] They contain the names of more than 120,000 people and companies.[6] Among those whose financial affairs are mentioned are, separately, AIG,[7] then-Prince Charles[8] and Queen Elizabeth II,[9] President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross... Appleby said that some of its data had been stolen in a cyberattack in the previous year... According to the papers, Allergan (the manufacturer of Botox), Allianz, Apple Inc., Facebook, Global Vantedge, McDonald's, Nike, Inc., Siemens, The Walt Disney Company, Twitter, Uber, Walmart, and Yahoo! are among the corporations that own offshore companies.[20][21] According to The Express Tribune, "Apple, Nike, and Facebook avoided billions of dollars in tax using offshore companies"... Bono... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers (more)

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation. (more)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ˈbrændaɪs/; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title,[3] and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law." He was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the century, particularly in his resistance to the monopolization of the New England railroad and advice to Woodrow Wilson as a candidate. In his books, articles and speeches, including Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, and The Curse of Bigness, he criticized the power of large banks (BigMoney), money trusts, powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis

programs put in place by FDR to "end" the Great Depression in the USA. We think of it being mostly about a Safety Net, but it heavily involved market control. (more)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt[a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt (more)

forcing a maximum time over which a person can hold elected office http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limits_in_the_United_States (more)

John Cutler: TBM 269: Three Organizational Design Principles. I have been thinking a lot about organization design lately and how it relates to how we collaborate and how managers/leaders collaborate. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 275: "Bad" Strategy. Why? Here are some things to consider. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 237: Incompetence! I was reflecting on this research I did earlier in my career. As an experiment, two teams tracked where their time went for two weeks...really taking into account the nuances (timesheet) (more)

John Cutler: TBM 330: (Un)common Sense Playbook. I remember listening to a podcast a few years ago featuring a Netflix engineering manager who described how he turned around a struggling team... The approach worked. The team (and the manager) turned things around... None of this sounds revolutionary (more)

John Cutler: TBM 254: Self-Gaslighting and the Doubt Loop. Many of the dynamics we deal with at work are not overtly toxic or unhealthy. We know people mean well and do their best, even when nerves fray and things don't pan out. However, left unchecked, these situations (and how you respond to them) erode your sense of self-worth and sap your self-awareness. They can ultimately be even more damaging than acute toxic situations. (more)

biggest part of Big Media (more)

Itamar Gilad: Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management? The product-sphere is boiling-over over an interview with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of AirBnB, in which he said that the company no longer has a product management function - PM has been merged with product-marketing-management (PMM). (more)

co-founder, AirBnb (more)

Charity Majors: “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking. Earlier this year I started writing a piece on why “hire great people and get out of their way” is such terrible, dangerous, counterproductive advice to give anyone in a leadership role. Then Paul Graham dropped his famous essay on “founder mode”, inspired by a talk given at a YC event by Brian Chesky. (more)

New Obesity Definition Shifts Focus From BMI. But the risk to health and wellbeing is not determined by weight – and therefore BMI – alone. We've been part of a global collaboration that has spent the past two years discussing how this should change. Today we publish how we think obesity should be defined and why. (more)