How people work

It is not gauche to understand how to understand others’ incentives. Working with others is the primary lever we have to accomplish hard things; we should strive to be good at it.

• - Everybody is the main character by Sebastian Bensusan
• - Lieutenants are the limiting reagent by Sebastian Bensusan
• - Coordination Headwind (“the slime mold talk”) by Alex Komoroske
• - Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly by Ben Kuhn
• - Shields Down by Michael Lopp (rands)
• - The Contagion by Michael Lopp (rands)
• - Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao
• - Doubt Calculus by Venkatesh Rao

Hiring

Hiring is hard; “excellent” is not a one-dimensional object.

• - Team oriented vs outcome oriented by Sebastian Bensusan
• - What’s going on here, with this human by Graham Duncan

Engineering

• - Jeeps, Ferraris, and Other Engineers by Mahesh Balakrishnan
• - The Wrong Abstraction by Sandi Metz

Energy

• - The Electric Slide by Packy McCormick and Sam D’Amico
• - Energy Cheat Sheet by Brian Potter

Manufacturing

• - Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman
• - Speed Can Reindustrialize America by Austin Vernon

Supply chains

• - The Box by Marc Levinson
• - Apple in China by Patrick McGee

Miscellaneous

• - Boom by Byrne Hobart
• - Breakneck by Dan Wang

Newsletters

• - The Diff by Byrne Hobart
• - Money Stuff by Matt Levine
• - Stratechery by Ben Thompson