Experiment Day 102:
Discussing God-given intrinsic motivations—I believe this is the biggest miss in team building.
And, how to run a company effectively, with a story of the opposite of effective leadership.
Bonus: I killed a spider on-stream.
Articles Discussed
Found one of my old posts on the topic of innate/intrinsic motivations.
"“You were created with God-given talents and God-designed motivations.”
Paul Bullard@paulbullard
You were created with God-given talents and God-designed motivations.
In my experience, most leaders don’t think about motivations (or they just make wrong assumptions).
Team building is placing people in the right roles based on talents and intrinsic motivations.
Both God
11:05 AM · Oct 22, 2024 · 89 Views
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Reframes are the key to your success with number 3.
“How to Run a Company Effectively”
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
Joe Hudson is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in tech, working with leaders across OpenAI, Apple, Google, and more.
Here's his 5-part framework for how to run a company effectively
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan
The biggest upheaval to work in our lifetime is here.
Joe Hudson (@FU_joehudson) coaches the research team at @OpenAI (along with @sama and leaders across Apple and Google), and from that front-row seat, has noticed the people doing best in these AI-forward environments aren't
4:42 PM · Jun 25, 2026 · 134K Views
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Fascinating story of how the wrong incentives create ineffective leadership.
(Obligatory mild language warning.)
“How Microsoft murdered Ensemble.”
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
How MicroSoft murdered Ensemble.
In a side note, Elon Musk himself dropped in on my Quake thread from a night ago. Sir - with respect, what are you doing commenting on my puny thread? Go take humanity to Mars!
Anyway, Microsoft's purchase of Ensemble (as described yesterday)
3:23 PM · Jun 25, 2026 · 99.5K Views
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