All posts tagged: culture

Posted on Jun 30, 2025 at 08:46 by scott truitt

I didn’t go to Glastonbury this weekend, and I’m sad to say I’ve never been. However, the combination of an exhausting week and extreme heat led to a lazy weekend spent watching much of the spectacle from my sofa, courtesy of the BBC. And I was treated to a show unlike any other, blending genres, genealogies, generations, and genders on stage and in the crowd. It was a celebration of humanity, focused on the immense creativity of a few thousand artists and shared with a massive, momentary com

Posted on Jul 12, 2024 at 19:49 by scott truitt

This lightly edited quote about tuning an F1 race car from Jamie Allison, newly reinstalled Mercedes technical director and key influence behind their recent successes, perfectly applies to building software in 2024: It took Mercedes too long to realise that the rules introduced in 2022 “required a different set of skills and a different way of interacting with each other.” “The car is the outcome of the institutional approach to designing it. Being competitive requires valuing the right thing