Chaque semaine, je partage quelques articles que jâai trouvĂ©s particuliĂšrement enrichissants. JâespĂšre quâils vous aideront autant quâils mâont aidĂ©.
Certains articles sont en français, la plupart sont en anglais (je copie certaines citations en anglais). Ils ne sont pas tous récents et vont au rythme de mes lectures.
Bonne lecture !
đŻ Construire une entreprise
Le concept de âHatersâ et âFanboysâ est fascinant car il peut vraiment nous faire dĂ©penser toute notre Ă©nergie au mauvais endroit. Paul Graham partage une bonne vision du sujet. Il lâapplique surtout aux individus connus. Je pense quâil peut aussi sâappliquer aux entreprises.
âThe mistake here is to think of the hater as someone you have a dispute with. When you have a dispute with someone, it's usually a good idea to try to understand why they're upset and then fix things if you can. Disputes are distracting. But it's a false analogy to think of a hater as someone you have a dispute with. It's an understandable mistake, if you've never encountered haters before.â
Dans lâarticle Reality has a surprising amount of details, John Salvatier montre que notre maniĂšre de voir les choses et de rĂ©soudre les problĂšmes est conditionnĂ©e par les dĂ©tails que nous remarquons, ou non. Voici quelques citations de lâarticle en question :
There is a surprising number of meaningful details in everything we do and they are what makes the difference.
When you got more practice and then you told yourself âman, it was so simple all along, I donât know why I had so much troubleâ. We run into a fundamental property of the universe (details are hard) and mistake it for a personal failing.
The physical laws themselves tend to be quite simple â but the manifestation of those laws is often complex and counterintuitive.
The more difficult your mission, the more details there will be that are critical to understand for success.
Such details arenât automatically visible, even when youâre directly running up against them. Things can just seem messy and noisy instead.
Itâs hard to put your attention on them because you donât even know what youâre looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent.
The direction for improvement is clear: seek detail you would not normally notice about the world.
Radical Candor : si vous nâavez pas lu ce livre de Kim Scott, commandez-le tout de suite. Nous lâoffrons Ă notre Ă©quipe ! Mathilde Collin partage quelques-uns de ses tips sur le sujet dans cet article.
đ±Monde des technologies
Excellente analyse de Ben Thompson (The Stratechery) sur lâacquisition de Plaid par Visa ($5bn) et sur la valeur des rĂ©seaux, et qui plaide pour plus de transparence envers les utilisateurs.
Amazon sous toutes les coutures : ces deux articles de fin 2019 (Jeff Bezosâs Master Plan & Is Amazon Unstoppable?) sont dâexcellentes lectures pour comprendre la culture et les ambitions dâAmazon (ainsi que les excellents leadership principles) :
Culture :
In 2002, Amazon distilled Bezosâs sensibility into a set of Leadership Principles, a collection of maxims including âInvent and Simplify,â âBias for Action,â and âHave Backbone; Disagree and Commit.â
Bezos loves the word relentlessâit appears again and again in his closely read annual letters to shareholders
Urge employees to ânever say âthatâs not my job,â â to âexamine their strongest convictions with humility,â to ânot compromise for the sake of social cohesion,â and to commit to excellence even if âpeople may think these standards are unreasonably high.â
âPeople who are right a lot change their mind,â he once said.
âWe never claim that our approach is the right one,â Bezos wrote, in a 2016 letter to shareholders. âJust that itâs ours.â
Recrutement :
The firm would send unsolicited letters to deanâs-list students at top universities, telling them: âWe approach our recruiting in unapologetically elitist fashion.â
Interviews would take the form of a Socratic test. Bezos would probe logical acuity with questions like Why are manhole covers round? According to Lovejoy, âOne of his mottos was that every time we hired someone, he or she should raise the bar for the next hire, so that the overall talent pool was always improving.
Equipe :
He created a new position, technical adviser, to instill his views in top managers; the technical advisers would shadow the master for at least a year, and emerge as what executives jokingly refer to as âJeff-bots.â
It distributes economists across a range of teams, where they can, among other things, run controlled experiments that permit scientific, and therefore effective, manipulation of consumer behavior.
Business :
When Amazon first created Prime, in 2005, Bezos insisted that the price be set high enough that the program felt like a genuine commitment.
RĂ©alitĂ© augmentĂ©e (The Information) : la start-up californienne Mojo-Vision a dĂ©voilĂ© au CES une lentille connectĂ©e qui en plus de corriger la vue, offre Ă lâutilisateur une interface pour consulter ses notifications, avoir la mĂ©tĂ©o ou encore accĂ©der Ă son calendrier. Le produit est encore au stade de prototype mais surprend par sa simplicitĂ© dâutilisation. Apple et Facebook travaillent eux aussi sur des projets similaires qui utilisent la rĂ©alitĂ© augmentĂ©e, et qui pourraient remplacer les smartphones dâici quelques annĂ©es.
Sam Levin a partagé ses prédictions pour la prochaine décennie (The Information). Quelques-unes particuliÚrement intéressantes :
The breakup of the internet will accelerate:Â The internet is already clearly fracturing into different spheresâthe American, Chinese and to a lesser extent European internets are all different and play by different rules. This fracturing will intensify. And because of the general trend toward smaller-scale community and personal identity, there isnât going to be much social pressure from people to hold the internet together.
Digital citizenship:Â China and the U.S. will offer some form of digital citizenship to noncitizens that extends certain rights and inclusions within the legal frameworks of the respective countries. As part of this, China will in some form require foreign companies exporting from China to pay suppliers for goods using digital RMBâthereby driving the expansion of that currency.
Personal computers:Â Apple and Microsoft will continue to dominate globally. I personally will use a MacBook daily as I do today and it will continue to be my primary interface, though the vast majority of connected people globally will be phone only.
VR:Â Oculus will be the dominant platform. Unit sales will look similar to current console sales (about 30 million units a year) and Facebook will have over 50% market share.
Middle management jobs will disappear:Â Automation and technology will make it easier for fewer managers to successfully manage far more people. This will remove the bulk of middle management jobs by 2030 and destroy historical job ladders in most knowledge work industries.
đ©ââïž SantĂ©
Internet et le secret médical : (Techcrunch)
Tous les jours, des millions dâimages mĂ©dicales qui contiennent des informations relevant du secret mĂ©dical sont publiĂ©es sur internet.
35 millions dâexamens mĂ©dicaux et 1,2 milliards de radios sont disponibles sur internet, ce qui constitue une atteinte considĂ©rable au secret mĂ©dical.
De nombreux cabinets mĂ©dicaux ignorent les rĂšgles de sĂ©curitĂ© de base et relient leur systĂšme PACS directement Ă internet, sans mĂȘme le protĂ©ger par un mot de passe.
đȘ DĂ©veloppement personnel
Je suis un Ă©norme fan de Tim Urban et de Wait But Why. Dans cet article, il dĂ©crit lâimportance la culture :
Culture is the collection of unwritten rules, norms, and values around âhow we do things here.â Every human environmentâfrom the two-person couples to the 20-person classrooms to the 20,000-person companiesâis embedded with its own culture.
Cultures use incentive systems too.
People in an Idea Lab are high-rung thinkers, so they know that knowledge is hard. They know the world is a foggy, incredibly complex place, and theyâre well aware that no single human knows that much about it.
The aggression never falls on the thinkerâarguments are often heated, but they donât get personal.
Where Idea Labs are cultures of critical thinking and debate, Echo Chambers are cultures of agreement and confirmation.
đ Les publications dâAlan
Un nouvel article est disponible sur notre blog et aborde le sujet du bien-ĂȘtre au travail. Longtemps considĂ©rĂ© comme tabou, ce sujet est maintenant central pour les entreprises qui veulent que leurs employĂ©s soient Ă©panouis et productifs. Alexander nous donne dans cet article les clĂ©s pour crĂ©er un environnement de travail plus sain: la sĂ©curitĂ©, la clartĂ© et la prĂ©sence dâun but.
Merci Ă tous et une excellente semaine.