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People up a few levels in org hierarchies are always coming up with ideas that sound great and make sense in a Powerpoint or on a spreadsheet, but are actually terrible ideas if you understand how they’ll play out.
This is only human! Management is about seeing things zoomed out — and all problems look smaller at a distance. It’s just a hazard of the job. Anyone in such a role is susceptible, even the best; what distinguishes •good• managers / administrators is that they mindfully, actively counter this self-trap.
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I don’t think we should get caught up in hunting for so-called “spiritual successors.” That kind of logic starts to feel like the endless splintering of the Trotskyists, each one founding their own Fourth International to guard some sacred ideological flame.
I look at the ICL CIT the same way, too wrapped up in reproducing hierarchies instead of dismantling them.
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Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)
https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-soft…

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy!)
The age of PDF is over. The time of markdown has begun. Why Memory Hierarchies are the best analogy for how software must change. And why Software it's unlikely to command the most value.

📉 The loser's brain: How neuroscience controls social behavior
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The loser's brain: How neuroscience controls social behavior
Social hierarchies are everywhere—think of high school dramas, where the athletes are portrayed as the most popular, or large companies, where the CEO makes the important decisions. Such hierarchies aren't just limited to humans, but span the animal kingdom, with dominant individuals getting faster food access, higher mating priority, and bigger or better territories. While it's long been thought that winning or losing can influence the position of an individual within a social hierarchy, the…

Hierarchies 😩... One of the biggest recurring time-consuming issues I sometimes encounter is making decisions about _where_ to put some (new or exisiting) code/feature, i.e. in which package, new or existing, considering: functional fit (topic), structural fit (pre-existing data format conventions with the rest of a package), and if possible, not introducing new dependencies as a result of new feature... Sometimes these three aspects are mutually blocking each other and it's so time cons…

Generalized discrete integrable operator and integrable hierarchy
Huan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.05046 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.05046
arXiv:2511.05046v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce and systematically develop two classes of discrete integrable operators: those with $2\times 2$ matrix kernels and those possessing general differential kernels, thereby generalizing the discrete analogue previously studied. A central finding is their inherent connection to higher-order pole solutions of integrable hierarchies, contrasting sharply with standard operators linked to simple poles. This work not only provides explicit resolvent formulas for matrix kernels and differential operator analogues but also offers discrete integrable structures that encode higher-order behaviour.
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