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The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling point: interesting intellectuals can charge money for doing their thing and people who interested in the life of the mind should pay for their output. The Schelling point, the place at which these two groups would choose to meet without any coordination mechanism, was the writer’s Substack.
BAM Is Now Reader-Supported
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper [Reframing the Liskov Substitution Principle through the Lens of Testing](https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~alexsumm/papers/BaniassadSummers21.pdf) , where they teach LSP as “the superclasses test suite should automatically be runnable, and pass, on the child class.” Go read it, it’s great.
When to Prefer Inheritance to Composition
Hillel Wayne
As described in Rumelt’s [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy](https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239), a strategy is composed of three parts: circumstances, guiding principles, and concrete action. The best way to think of the relationship between values and a strategy (business, technology, or otherwise) is that useful values generally can serve as a strategy’s guiding principle. Not all guiding principles are values (e.g. how you respond to a current market opportunity is unlikely to be a value), but most values are viable guiding principles.
Setting Engineering Org Values.
lethain.com
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