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Elizabeth Van Nostrand — holds since 2025-11-15 — tap for who they are
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Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-09-21 — tap for who they are
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Dan Luu — holds since 2014-11-07 — tap for who they are
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Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-05-12 — tap for who they are
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12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem. — tap to centre the map on it A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem. Last stated a year ago
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Rahul Vohra — holds since 2025-03-23 — tap for who they are
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Jason Crawford — holds since 2023-08-16 — tap for who they are
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30 Aug 2005
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John Ioannidis — holds since 2005-08-30 — tap for who they are
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Stuart Ritchie — holds since 2022-10-11 — tap for who they are
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Jamie Dimon — holds since 2025-07-16 — tap for who they are
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Dylan Field — holds since 2025-10-16 — tap for who they are
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Designed experiments can reveal causal relationships that observational data alone cannot determine.
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Diagnose with data and treat with design: data can tell you that you have a problem and where it is, and it can never tell you what to build.
Holds
The answer to weak studies of programming practice is to fund better ones, not to conclude that the question cannot be measured.
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A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.
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A board game conquers the world when chance and strategy are in balance in it.
Holds
A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem.
Holds
“Trust science” is a confused instruction: what deserves trust is the process, not any particular thing it has concluded so far.
Holds
A hotter field with more teams racing on the same question produces less reliable findings, not more.
Holds
A hyped effect shrinking to a small but real one as the studies improve is a sign that a field is working, not failing.
Holds
A group of businesses only works when every one of them feeds the others, and everything that does not fit the strategy should be sold.
Holds
After a decade of Swiss minimalism, design is about to swing back to something far more expressive.
Holds
AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much.
Holds