19 month ago
Rod Begbie : meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - I must confess that I have similarly designed heuristics and strategies for the T, as well as lane positioning on the Mass Pike, but I've never been geeky enough to write them down. [via] #
philgyford : Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
plasticbag : Meg Pickard on the natural heirarchy of seats on the tube... - I don't agree with some of what she says - the idea of being trapped by the end door with the window open in a train would appall me. Hard to escape. Otherwise though, desperately and depressingly insightful.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia's Death Greatly Exaggerated - What clay said
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32 month ago
Linkorama : The tyranny of Structurelessness - "In essence: stripping away formal and explicit rules from groups does not result in groups without power relations or hierachies. All it does is replace them with implicit, invisible and tacit forms of power relations - friendship networks, charisma, cha
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Management la Google - While Google's growth will inevitably slow, there's a good chance that its revenues will arc upward for years. Why? Because its novel management system seems to have been designed to guard against the risk factors that so often erode an organization's evo
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Open, but not as usual - What Sun did with Java looked like that to begin with, hierarchical opensource. It didn’t work. Sun gave up. And then it worked.
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plasticbag : An interesting article on a dream cocoa client for del.icio.us - So this is a bit of a follow-up to a post I did a while back on tag-based bookmarks in safari which has had some interesting feedback. This article has some of the most interesting ideas that I've seen, and I'm definitely going to be thinking around this
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