OKRs gave us a way to move forward that wasn’t all top-down. After voting on the quarter’s top objectives, the leadership team would go to our contributors and say, “Here’s what we think is important and why.” And the contributors would
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“But Henry wasn’t a parent, and he didn’t understand that when you were, almost nothing was more satisfying than seeing your kid sleep.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.”
― Accelerando
― Accelerando
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
― States of Matter
― States of Matter
“It’s more the way it is now than it’s ever been,” Cayce replies, a line of Dwight David Eisenhower’s that she sometimes resorts to when she has nothing whatever to offer.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
“(Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant and it’s hot enough to sterilize cholera bacteria.)”
― Equoid
― Equoid
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