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Stop Throwing AI at Broken Systems: Fix Your Engineering Culture First
With AI integrated into workflows, a lean team of 10 people can ship faster and better than a firm with 200 people. But before you...
Taste Is the New Moat
In an age where AI can generate infinite content, “taste” becomes the real differentiator. But taste is not always an innate gift...
Antimemetics: An Essential Field Guide
Memes spread by virality, but antimemes survive by resisting attention. In Antimemetics, Nadia Asparouhova explains why some of th...
Culture Systems: The Hidden Architecture of High-Performing Organizations
Drew Sutton is the founder of Drew Sutton Leadership and the father of Culture Systems Consulting. Sutton says that most companies...
The Policy Cult(ure)
Policies create structure, not commitment.Real engineering culture appears when trust, ownership, and shared meaning replace cont...
The Em Dash Rorschach Test
Large language models love em dashes—so much that human writers are second-guessing their own punctuation. Some see em dashes as p...
When Desire Is Designed: The Hidden Politics of the Feed
The Feed as the Machine of Desire is a new way to look at the world. It doesn't command, it seduces, enlisting our willing partici...
Revering AI Reveals Incompetence, Not Intelligence
Nothing is really good anymore; and AI is the peak of this lamentable trend.
The Subplot of a Nation: What Today’s Chinese Literature Tells Us About Tomorrow
Megan Walsh’s*[The Subplot: What China is Reading and Why it Matters] is a slim volume, but it is broad in its scope. It is focuse...
