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One of the most important factors as to what gives objects a felt sense of ‘home’ or ‘coziness’ is the degree to which the object **involves you in its own completion**.
Agentic Computing
jzhao.xyz
RFCs are written and discussed, but there’s no mechanism by which they’re formally adopted or rejected. Organizations choose to implement them (or don’t); they become standards through widespread voluntary adoption.
This means that, if engineering organizations naively adopt an RFC process without bolting on some sort of explicit decision-making step, the process quickly breaks down. Without some sort of process to move towards a decision, **the default outcome of an RFC is “no”**
RFC processes are a poor fit for most organizations
jacobian.org
I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of successful investment bankers in part because they help me understand why I was not, myself, a successful investment banker.
Money Stuff: IRL’s Users Were Not IRL
Matt Levine
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