I had been cataloguing long articles that I read. Below were some of the best that I read in 2024.
The Magic Loop - A framework for rapid career growth – doing your current job well, asking what you can do to help further
The end of 0% interest rates: what it means for tech startups and the industry – there was a low interest rate period where lot of hiring and spending happened and interest rate hikes changing spending behavior and team compositions
The Pyramid Principle – came across this in different forms this year. How to answer a question – direct answer, summarize the arguments, detail if necessary. Not the other way around.
How will you measure your life? – to re-read once in a while. To value family, relationships and community. “It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.“
The brand called you – again a classic to re-read. How to stand out.
Power laws in culture – few mega hits, and very very long tail. It is all a network effect.
An app can be a home-cooked meal – creating software just for us, for a small group to use, like home cooked meals. This may happen more in future, with Generative AI.
The State of the Culture, 2024 - heading towards distraction, addiction and dopamine nation
We Are What We Remember - remembering self vs experiencing self, fickleness of memories, journaling
How to remember everything forever-ish, Augmenting long term memory – about “spaced repetition” to remember what we learn
What I think about when I edit – good article on writing and editing
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (ft.com) - companies are stopping to care about users, business and moving to maximize shareholder value. No fear of competition, regulation, self help (users finding alternate workarounds) or workers.
Enterprise cloud costs spiral despite FinOps adoption, report finds | CIO Dive - Cloud costs are balloooning
Benevolent sexism: a feminist comic explains how it holds women back | Comics and graphic novels | The Guardian - gut punch to read and realize. Don’t treat women like fragile creatures that must be protected. Gallantry, putting them in a pedestal, limiting them to tasks that are womanly or needing a women's touch.
Innerring - CS Lewis Society of California - know that there are inner rings in any group and we have yearning to enter that and it sometimes compromises our principles. Instead focus on the craft and form natural groups not to exclude others, but for the pure enjoyment of the group of friends.
Corporate Ozempic | No Mercy / No Malice (profgalloway.com) - Jobs are being cut year on year, slated for 270k jobs in 2024. But it is said it is not because of AI. But AI is reducing the appetite to hire more. And the companies to reducing people and still being more profitable - which maybe cutting the extra fat hired during pandemic years. Like Ozempic drug reducing the craving for food, AI is reducing the craving for hiring more people to grow.
The art of letting-go- Jeyamohan | Unified Wisdom - renunciation as a path of life
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? (hbr.org) – absolute best article about delegation. When someone talks to you, don’t let the monkey on their back jump on to your back, for you to carry around.
Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson (mit.edu) – re-read once in a while for motivation
Reality has surprising amount of detail – brilliant writing. “if you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived.”
Notes on Taste – one of the most important reads in 2024. In the age of abundance (with AI), taste and judgment will become important.
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues | Brightball – why story points are not the right measure for productivity
A New Theory of Distraction | The New Yorker - sense of self - our random thoughts. Struggle for autonomy. Distraction vs Attention.
Algorithms we develop software by - write everything twice - gets to better solutions.
reflections on palantir - Nabeel S. Qureshi (nabeelqu.co) - A new way to think about how to do product development, talent development
Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career – Communications of the ACM – a good list to do a self assessment
AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? (substack.com) – beautiful writing, about possible ways to thinking about impact of AI
Quit Your Job (palladiummag.com) – read a lot about “Pathless Path” in 2024. How I wish.
How We Do the Small Things - by Amit Varma – daily habits matters
Are you serious? - by visakan veerasamy – inspiring stories
The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions - Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
Technology is the Problem - Shyam Sankar - Cargo cult companies are destroying value
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