Design Feeling
Naoto Fukasawa designs objects that disappear into use. Most org design disappears into frameworks. What if we took feeling as seriously as thinking?
Values
Stated values, lived values, and the structural conditions that make the gap between them larger or smaller.
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Anthropic’s AI constitution is an exercise in rule-of-law governance
I solemnly swear that this is not an international relations blog, nor is it an AI blog, but THINGS ARE HAPPENING
Super Performance
TL;DR: We lack a shared, rigorous way to assess an entire organization – most tools either miss key drivers or apply only to specific domains. By meta-analyzing 102 criteria from 14 seminal sources, from Rams’ Design Principles to the Agile Manifesto to Jane Jacobs' Generators of Diversity, this post
Onward!
I've left August to join R/GA. Some reasons why, along with a few thoughts on consulting.
August’s Specific Public Benefit
At the beginning, August had two key goals: making a significant contribution to human productivity growth; being the fuel for meaningful innovation.
Show Up Whole
I spent the better portion of P1 on employee reviews. At Undercurrent, we do official reviews every four months, with the intent of doing them all in one week while we’re “closed” for renovations. There’s no better gift than being in these reviews, and hearing about everyone’s
Organizing Even Over Org Design
A lot of what we do these days at Undercurrent falls under the “Organizational Design” banner. But that banner falls short by failing to align with one of my most strongly held beliefs: that nobody can design an organization that’s good enough, that fulfills on enough of our success
Join the Revolution
When every business becomes a consumer, and every consumer becomes a business, we’ll be forced to confront the fact that 50% of our waking hours just don't make sense anymore.
Worse Is Better
I was familiar with “Weniger aber besser”. But until I started diving into Linux vs. Unix (as a result of my week in Vegas) I’d never heard of “Worse is Better.” It’s a concept in software engineering that indicates an inverse relationship between quality and functionality (more functionality
Make Things for People
This one’s near and dear to my heart. And it hurts when companies get it wrong. So it’s exciting to see it done so, so well. Muji’s just released a set of iPad apps that parallel their products, that align with the values they hold dear, and
Brand Definition & Flexibility - Skype's Brand Book
I've just downloaded Skype's Brand Book, which they've recently made public on their site. It's a nice piece of work, and offers a rich, flexible and humorous set of guidelines for the use of Skype's brand elements. They allow for