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why? - faster feedback - fit in sprint slice vertically → faster feedback only when makes sense & so it fits in a sprint (src https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHtSogsF8Yc)

Explore Expand Extract Explore: This is in a startup phase You don’t know if anyone would use your product You want to run a lot of experiments as quick as possible. Focus: speed of experiments, time between idea and “is anyone interested” Expand: solve bottlenecks This is where you try to scale up your offering. But there are bottlenecks blocking you from doing that. Solving this bottleneck (just enough so that it is not the bottleneck anymore) is the most important thing to do....

https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/videos/xp-as-an-incentive-system-kent-beck-xp-2018/ Incentive System encourages some behaviours discourages other behaviors Actual Talk: puzzle & key puzzle: why is it that we have a thing that works well & is enjoyable ; people wont do it how people look at you refactoring depends on gender on male dominated teams men who refactor → “craftsmen” women who refactor → “fussy” anecdote: warm-ups playing games, practicing forming team what does refactoring look like, if you’re really good at social interaction?...

Questions to Find People’s Native Genius What do they do better than anything else they do? What do they do better than the people around them? What do they without effort? What do they do without being asked? What do they do readily without being paid? (src: Book_ multipliers by liz wiseman)

The Four Practices of the Talent Magnet 1 Look for Talent everywhere appreciate all types of genius ignore boundaries 2 Find People’s Native Genius Look for what is native Model_ Questions to Find People’s Native Genius Label It 3 Utilize People at their fullest Connect People with Opportunities Shine a spotlight 4 Remove the blockers get rid of prima donnas get out of the way Becoming a talent magnet Name the genius supersize it let go of a superstar (src: [[book-multipliers-by-liz-wiseman....

How we over-value book knowledge, narrative, understanding why something works We only let ourselves be influenced when we have a story that makes sense about why something happens. And how we undervalue “evolutionary knowledge”. This is knowledge passed down through the ages. in family knowledge passed from grandparents onto grandchildren craft knowledge passed on from master to apprentice religion rules / practices / rituals When evolutionary knowledge improves an individual’s fitness for their environment....

How a minority group can set the standard, instead of the majority. Complex system: at different scale things behave differently You can’t predict the collective from the individuals Eg. Kosher drinks in America We live in a world that is structured around the preferences of radicals who won’t compromise, not the will of the majority (https://youtu.be/Da0aXfshlxM) When can it happen? Minority not willing to compromise Distributed among the masses (geographical) Majority not being ticked off by it (counter minority) (1) Minority not willing to compromise The minority needs to be completely unwilling to compromise....

While waiting for our router from hyperoptic to arrive, we discovered an old router laying around. So we tried to set this up so we’d have wifi Wifi without internet plug the router into a power socket on the router there is the name of the wifi network + password (not the username + password that is for later) connect to the wifi getting the internet working (1) connect the ethernet cable between the...

configure new digital id use a signature creation device manage digital id Digital IDs > PKCS#11 Modules and tokens attach module /usr/local/lib/beid-pkcs11.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libbeidpkcs11.dylib (thanks to this github post) sources: https://eid.belgium.be/en/faq/how-do-i-set-pkcs11-acrobat-reader-dc#7269 https://github.com/lino-framework/eidreader/issues/3

Series: Incerto Book: Fooled by randomness Book_ Black Swan - Nasim Taleb Book: The Bed of Procrustes Book_ Antifragile - Nicolas Tale Book: Skin in the game Model: Extremistan vs Mediocistan Model: convex vs concave Model: skin in the game Heuristic: acceleration of harm Model: Black Swan events Model: Lindy Effect Stay out of the financial markets if you don’t gave good tail protection Scale makes companies fragile scale = fragile centralisation = fragile Heuristic: companies with fluctuating revenue/income are less fragile Heuristic: private companies are less fragile Model: silver rule (aka reverse golden rule) Quote: philosophers should be known for one thing and one thing only Heuristic: whatever annoys book reviewers is a good thing Quote: if you see a fraud and don’t say fraud, you are a fraud [[model-book-knowledge-vs-other-knowledge....