Leo Widrich, cofounder of Buffer, shares, via this Zapiers article by Fred Bauters, six steps to getting to an open culture. In summary: Check yourself: are you personally transparent? Be sure…
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Links to external articles by other people, usually with a pull quote and brief comment.
Female Founder Stories
Here’s a constructive addition to the “feminism in tech” issue – a sizeable collection of in-depth interviews of female founders, announced here by Jessica Livingston. Some interesting extracts from the “Was…
Flat hierarchies, mentorship and personal development
I read this article with concern. Dustin Moskovitz, founder of Asana, took issue with Valve’s flat management structure and its lack of coaching: Almost immediately after, I grasped what they had…
Millenials: not working for money
“Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of millennials said they would rather make $40,000 a year at a job they love than $100,000 a year at a job they think is boring,”…
How to strip off in front of your staff
Here’s a great article by my wife and cofounder, Paulina, on the topic of open cultures and her journey through the last few years, as we embraced more and more…
How Psychedelics saved Amber Lyon’s life
Emmy-Award-winning, former CNN investigative reporter Amber Lyon on her new site reset.me: I invite you to take a step back and clear your mind of decades of false propaganda. Governments…
On discrimination in the tech industry
Whilst I am not one to side with dogmatic ultra-feminists, this kind of behaviour is not only reprehensible, it is disgusting and stupid: After some small talk, he sat next…
Where do children’s earliest memories go?
Our first three to four years are the maddeningly, mysteriously blank opening pages to our story of self. As Freud said, childhood amnesia ‘veils our earliest youth from us and…