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Chris Combe

@chriscombe.com

Recovering CTO/Architect/Ways of working lead (formerly), bow all things product and strategy. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscombe/

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AI native, AI first. Human worst...

05.12.2025 08:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.

What could go wrong with such an incentive....

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Perverse incentives aka Cobra Effect come to mind.

More teen pregnancy anyone? This feels like a metric that will be gamed.

23.04.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Your brain doesn’t learn the way we thought, according to new neuroscience breakthrough Scientists have discovered that the brain learns using more complex and diverse rules than previously thought, reshaping our understanding of memory and learning.

www.psypost.org/your-brain-d...

22.04.2025 02:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love the lighting, great shot

18.04.2025 02:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that any different to governments banning or burning books?

10.04.2025 03:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Books yes but how is that something exclusive to libraries.

The social interaction and sense of community is a key point!

10.04.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The world needs more empathy and critical thinking. I see so many people slogging it out online like it's us vs them.

One side is x, the other is y. Seems like kids in the playground but on a mass scale, only cowering behind their browser / apps.

What happened to respectful debate and facts?

10.04.2025 00:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How are they vital in today's age?

I think books are vital, access to information is vital.

Perhaps it's low cost access to both of those that is crucial for under privileged people?

Or something else entirely

10.04.2025 00:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

living in a VUCA world....

10.04.2025 00:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We shall see. I've been bitterly disappointed the past couple years.

08.03.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How 1.5 hours of screen time a day affects a toddler’s development Study finds that children who watch more than 90 minutes a day are below average for vocabulary, communication, writing and numeracy

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

20.01.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The parallels of work and end of year large family gatherings for the holidays Applying a ways of working lens to family holiday gatherings

After surviving the end of year celebrations at the in-laws, I was inspired to write up a somewhat tongue in cheek blog on some of the common dysfunctions.

www.chriscombe.com/p/the-parall...

I appreciate that not everyone's family / in-laws are like this but thought I'd share in the open.

07.01.2025 11:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks mate, hope all is well.

04.01.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Year New Blog On being explicit and planning in the open.

Just over a week until I move back home to Sydney.

In the meantime I have a new blog which I migrated from Medium to Substack and just posted this blog as a year in review and a look to the future.

www.chriscombe.com/p/new-year-n...

04.01.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So your point is they are potentially dangerous if you are making important decisions based on what is captured. I think that is true for almost all surveys captured via web forms

07.12.2024 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I generally try not to crap on approaches until I can point out an alternative.

07.12.2024 18:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What would you suggest instead?

07.12.2024 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All the money and talent and they give a big screw you to the users...

01.12.2024 14:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Workspace: Secure Online Productivity & Collaboration Tools Learn how the suite of secure, online tools from Google Workspace empowers teams of all sizes to do their best work.

I'm guessing Google it.. isn't helpful 😜

If you go here and try the chat option on the bottom right does that help?

workspace.google.com

01.12.2024 13:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice I'll share with the team and see if we can get that hooked up.

Unless SSH offers an option for advocates πŸ€”

01.12.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

love sharing in the open @simon.bvssh.com - I also need to figure out how to get a cool looking domain name like you and Jon have ;)

01.12.2024 13:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Demystifying the Viable System Model: A Practical Approach
Demystifying the Viable System Model: A Practical Approach YouTube video by Systems at Play

Great share from @jon.bvssh.com on the Viable Systems Model - check out this great into video / talk by Adam Thompson www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWL...

What other resources do you recommend on the VSM?
I've read Hpverstatd's Fractal Org and Davies' Unaccountability Machine

01.12.2024 13:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you beat me to it!

30.11.2024 11:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@simon.bvssh.com and I were just talking about this!

30.11.2024 11:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are giving a talk and calling others out for being wrong or not doing their homework... and you don't even try to talk to them to verify your own claims - you sir are a dick!

I won't kiss and tell, I am disappointed how the agile community acts sometimes. Very childish.

30.11.2024 11:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this what happens to all the pumpkins after Halloween?

28.11.2024 13:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This one ☝️☝️☝️☝️

22.11.2024 13:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does that change at all if your tooling enables a column with both states waiting and active?

21.11.2024 11:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Still can't believe December is almost here. I'm moving back to Oz in January. Life is flashing before my eyes.

21.11.2024 06:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have a better suggestion or do you think less queues overall but still some are waiting?

21.11.2024 06:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0