Every Visionary Needs A Strategy (the not-quite-podcast)
In this not-quite-podcast-series, Finn Schubert breaks down what it means to have a strategy, how to do powerful strategic thinking, and why strategic work is an unexpected source of power.
Rethinking Systems
Exploring Ways of Knowing
A work in progress – the beginning of a slide deck or zine about how we know what we know.
Often, collaborating across very different contexts or workplace cultures can be challenging due to mistrust stemming from different beliefs about ways of knowing – although the issues are rarely discussed in these
Seduced by Sensemaking
They say smart people join cults because their minds crave cohesion. Basically, smart people are suckers for an explanation that makes sense.
Simple, Lovable, Complete
What would a “simple, lovable, complete” report look like?
administrative debt
In software engineering, technical debt is when you work quickly and take shortcuts in coding that prioritize completing the work sooner over long-term stability and consistency of the code. Essentially, you borrow time and resources from the future (to fix problems arising from these shortcuts) in order to have a
Take Emotion Seriously
When designing anything, even–especially–systems that feel like they are dry and neutral, we need to take emotion seriously. What does that look like?
a data system is a hypothesis about the world
A file system is an expression of how you see the world.
Which things are like other things? Which things are different? Which categories are important? Which are unimportant?
Organizations have trouble creating a file system that works for everyone, because everyone sees the world differently.
And because they think