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Sean Devine
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Sean Devine
@barelyknown
Founder/CEO of XBE, author of The Dionysus Program, husband, father, programmer, NBA fan. Drifting westward. Old, still applicable. Self-validating.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Haziran 2010
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“Let trust form organically” is often negligence with better branding.
In fast-moving teams, work no longer creates enough shared strain to bond people. What remains is a group held together by payroll. When pressure hits, you don’t get candor or adaptation. You get theater.
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What a book! A must read, multiple times.
Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️@EricJorgenson
🚨📕 THE BOOK OF ELON IS NOW LIVE!!! 🎉🚀 This is the book we WISHED @elonmusk would write… “All of Elon's most useful ideas, in his own words.” Learn directly from the world’s greatest entrepreneur, like you’re sitting across from him at dinner. It took FIVE YEARS to make this for you. Because it's built from hundreds and hundreds of Elon's public appearances. I went through 3,000,000+ words to collect the most useful and timeless ideas. The final book is ~50,000 words. Every word is USEFUL. (This is what I do. My first book, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, is one of the top 100 most highlighted books of all time on Kindle.) Then, I spent $50,000+ on editing and design so it looks and feels beautiful. Then… > Foreword by @naval. > Visuals by @jackbutcher. > Blurb from @mrbeast. > Published by @scribemediaco. > And yes, approval on this idea from Elon himself, thanks to @samteller. I went Maximum Effort to make this an all-timer. We got 10/10 on reviews from early readers, then worked on it for ANOTHER YEAR. Why so much effort? My mission is to create One Million Musks. For a generation to lift our gaze and build, so our grandchildren live in a world beyond our wildest dreams. I’m an independent author. I don’t get an advance. I risk my own time and money to make these books. Then we give away millions of them. Digital versions are free. I believe this book can benefit every human, and if you can’t pay five bucks for it, I want to personally gift it to you. Because I know it is useful. Useful how? You may be seeking purpose, a mission worthy of your life’s effort. You may have a clear purpose and seek the tools for success. You will find both in this book. Get the benefits of Elon’s entire life of hard-won lessons in a five-hour, easy read. (I checked, it’s a 5th-grade reading level.) You’ll feel personally mentored by the greatest entrepreneur in history. Click below to buy it now on Amazon, Audible, or directly from me. Amazon: amzn.to/47avSuh Audible: lnkd.in/gi_7HrFP Me: lnkd.in/gS2xWUWH If you’re not sure it’s worth $4.99 yet, just start reading the free version. PLEASE take 6 seconds to Like, Bookmark, and Repost. Even better: send this to your friends, team, or Group Chats! I guarantee this book will improve their lives. Spread the word! Every little thing helps. Your support spreads good ideas around the world, helping people and making the future better for everyone. Thank you! Forward. Together.
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Engineering problems yield to better information. Organizational problems often get worse with it.
A fact in a machine is just a fact. A fact in a team threatens status, competence, and loyalty. That’s why obvious problems stay unsaid.
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Klarna didn’t prove AI failed. It proved you can cut headcount faster than you can rebuild judgment.
The work stays. The costs just move: weaker service, thinner trust, expensive rehiring.
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@thsottiaux I don’t like it. I think it’d be fine to have a config, but not as default.
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Do people like this? We don't do this for codex because it exists to help you and it's important that you remain the owner and accountable for your work without AI taking credit. At the same time it does mean that you can't trace how popular codex is among repos.
Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW
I noticed something interesting: Claude Code auto-adds itself as a co-author on every git commit. Codex doesn’t. That’s why you see Claude everywhere on GitHub, but not Codex. I wonder why OpenAI is not doing that. Feels like an obvious branding strategy OpenAI is skipping.
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The cost of tying identity to know-how stays hidden until the know-how gets cheaper.
A team built on being the smartest analysts in the room meets a model that drafts in seconds. Then the fight isn't about quality. It's humiliation dressed up as standards.
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The name for a company full of candor rituals and unsafe truths is Management Theater.
Reviews multiply. Language gets careful. Decisions happen in one person’s head or in private chats. That’s not alignment. It’s fear wearing process.
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Most “lack of candor” is a design error, not a character flaw.
Teams use Run Time accountability inside Ritual Time. In a postmortem, that means people are still being scored while trying to surface what broke. The artifact stops being the target. The self does.
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Honesty that arrives at 2 a.m. is just accounting for a loss already taken.
In uncertain ops, people over-order when doubt feels riskier than disagreeing with the superintendent. Break plans into reversible pieces, and review the piece—not the person.
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This is a naming move before it’s a staffing move.
Call team reduction “elevating individual contributors” and later misses arrive pre-explained. The postmortem still happens, but the permitted vocabulary was chosen before the facts were.
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@samdblond I'm the Founder and CEO of XBE, the System of Action and Agent Superworkforce for the heavy materials, logistics, and construction industry. I'm here in San Francisco. The rest of the team is around the world. I think Monaco might be a great fit and I'd like a demo.
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Readers of "The Dionysus Program" have reacted strongly to this essay.
It describes how artificial intelligence and remote work have destroyed the default process that generates trust between teammates. It also prescribes some counter measures.
Does it ring true to you too?
Sean Devine@barelyknown
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Without @EricJorgenson, I don’t think I’d have finished and released “The Dionysus Program”. He was an inspiration and thought partner and friend. He was also gracious enough to write its Foreword.
It was amazing to receive an early copy of his “The Book of Elon” this week too.
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I wrote a book! The Dionysus Program.
As you may know, I run a software company (XBE) that I started back in 2016. Since then, we’ve become one of the leading providers of business operations software for the heavy materials, logistics, and construction industries.
We’ve been impacted by artificial intelligence in every conceivable way over the past 3+ years. We build amazing AI-based features, products, and agents. We use AI to build everything faster and better. And we’ve transformed every aspect of our organization using AI.
Along the way, it became clear to me that the bottleneck to continuous improvement in this new era wouldn’t be technical, but cultural.
I believe that the biggest and newest problems are usually solved by the oldest and most long-lasting (high-Lindy) ideas, so I began to research explanations about what was happening to us and what it would take to respond effectively.
That research eventually became this book, “The Dionysus Program.”
If you’re trying to figure out how to thrive as the half-life of knowledge and expertise shrinks, it’s for you.
The book is available for free at dionysusprogram.com
There’s also a paperback version available on Amazon (amazon.com/dp/B0GQGWGGTL) for those (like me!) who want a totem.
I hope the book helps you. And I hope to hear from you about anything you like or disagree with. I published “The Dionysus Program” to subject its ideas to the criticism that it identifies as the source of future knowledge.
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