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Read this korrent: Authoritarianism is deeply embedded in software development, affecting even anti-authoritarian individuals.
Authoritarianism is deeply embedded in software development, affecting even anti-authoritarian individuals.
Last stated 6 years ago
7 Oct 2020
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Zed Shaw — holds since 2020-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Authoritarianism can be defined as any deference to authority given or taken without the enthusiastic informed consent of everyone involved. — tap to centre the map on it
Authoritarianism can be defined as any deference to authority given or taken without the enthusiastic informed consent of everyone involved.
Last stated 6 years ago
7 Oct 2020
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Zed Shaw — holds since 2020-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Authoritarianism is a system centred on corruption and plunder, with state capture as the means. — tap to centre the map on it
Authoritarianism is a system centred on corruption and plunder, with state capture as the means.
Last stated a week ago
26 Oct 2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat — holds since 2026-10-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Authoritarianism strips rights from the many and gives the few licence to exploit. — tap to centre the map on it
Authoritarianism strips rights from the many and gives the few licence to exploit.
Last stated a week ago
26 Oct 2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat — holds since 2026-10-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Resisting authoritarianism today means undoing the systems of corruption and exploitation that sustain it. — tap to centre the map on it
Resisting authoritarianism today means undoing the systems of corruption and exploitation that sustain it.
Last stated a week ago
26 Oct 2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat — holds since 2026-10-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian: it is a property of self-organising systems that emerges for the benefit of the parts. — tap to centre the map on it
Hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian: it is a property of self-organising systems that emerges for the benefit of the parts.
Last stated 3 years ago
5 Jan 2024
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Charity Majors — holds since 2024-01-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The bigger long-term danger to authoritarian regimes is that AIs gain control of them, as subordinates always threatened autocrats — tap to centre the map on it
The bigger long-term danger to authoritarian regimes is that AIs gain control of them, as subordinates always threatened autocrats
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Jan 2025
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Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2025-01-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role. — tap to centre the map on it
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Dec 2024
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Charity Majors — holds since 2024-12-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is. — tap to centre the map on it
A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is.
Last stated 15 years ago
28 Oct 2011
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Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2011-10-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills. — tap to centre the map on it
A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills.
Last stated a year ago
28 May 2025
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Camille Fournier — holds since 2025-05-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace. — tap to centre the map on it
A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.
Last stated 3 months ago
2 Aug 2026
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Tom Verrilli — holds since 2026-08-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth. — tap to centre the map on it
A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.
Last stated 7 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance. — tap to centre the map on it
A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance.
Last stated 8 years ago
14 Jul 2018
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Will Larson — holds since 2018-07-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better. — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Dec 2024
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Charity Majors — holds since 2024-12-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work. — tap to centre the map on it
A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work.
Last stated a month ago
29 Sept 2026
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Danny Martinez — holds since 2026-09-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it. — tap to centre the map on it
A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it.
Last stated 15 years ago
23 Jan 2012
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Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2012-01-23 — tap for who they are
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