To have other people use and enjoy your program is probably what a certain breed of programmer is really interested in. That’s the ultimate reward.
Steve Dorner, author of the Euduora email software, in 1997
…a crisis happens precisely when the institutional memory of the last crisis has faded: when all the key chairs are occupied by people who aren’t scared any more, the same mistakes get repeated.
The Guardian: Forget a 2008 Lehman Bros-style crash – this is how a ‘normal’ recession could start
The ownership structure chart is similar to a hieroglyphic on a cave wall about the survival of the species: Harvest the crops when the sun is high in the horizon, do not venture over the hills, hostile tribes live there, and… don’t buy this stock. The corporate governance structure of WeWTF makes Chinese firms look American, pre-big tech.
Scott Galloway: WeWTF
Whole sections of bookstores are dedicated to becoming successful. The shelves are packed with titles like The Science of Getting Rich and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. There is no section marked “Managing Your Professional Decline.”
The Atlantic: Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Just because I looked like them, and was part of an ethnic majority, life wasn’t any easier in India. Foreigners regarded me as a local person, while locals viewed me as an outsider […] I remained in a limbo as so much of my identity as an Indian is tied to being Singaporean.
What a Singaporean Indian learnt during a six-month trip to India