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@AlanJSmit The ONLY currencies!

Happy 100th, Sir David. You’ve informed, educated, and entertained millions of us. Our worldviews are better because of your work. And thanks, Lord Reith, for believing something so passionately and instilling it so deeply that giants like David could stand on it. bit.ly/3RHoOjJ #gapingvoid

@sandeepdixit22 @pickover Of course. Just ask Grandma.

@pickover @gapingvoid Can wisdom be transferred?

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CEO of @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei spends almost half his time on culture, not tech. He's doing the modern day version of what French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry encouraged leaders to do: “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” bit.ly/49JvzYu

@pickover A coworker said in a meeting the other day, “Knowledge is given. Wisdom is earned.”

@allbecuzofwords @rorysutherland @Gartner_inc The whole world, honestly

@gapingvoid @rorysutherland @Gartner_inc British business needs Rory more than it knows.

Thanks to everyone who joined @rorysutherland and Jason Korman for their HR Alchemy session at @Gartner_inc’s Executive Summit. Remember: Culture isn’t built in all-hands meetings. And employees don’t change their behavior because HR said “pretty please.” Real change happens when people experience meaning, not management. If you’re looking for support on your culture change initiatives, our DMs are open.

Most culture initiatives die somewhere between the kickoff deck and the employee survey. If you’re heading to @Gartner_inc’s Executive Summit tomorrow, catch @rorysutherland and our CEO Jason Korman breaking down how to instead make culture the most powerful management system in your organization.

If one quote captured the spirit of the night, it’s this one: “Culture is to humans as software is to computers. It’s code. And once you see it, it will forever change how you lead.”

We’ve opened the doors for the first of many Gapingvoid salons, The Art & Alchemy of Company Culture. For those who weren't able to make it to Miami, we’ll be sharing moments from inside the room soon!

Recently at Coachella, with Justin Bieber headlining via a stripped down, minimalist, almost austere performance, devoid of all the teenybop razzle dazzle of his earlier career. The big story turned out to be not so much about Justin’s appearance per se, but people’s reaction to it. It was very mixed. Some fans loved it, some fans just scratched their heads. Culture is organic, it’s a living thing. It must regenerate itself, or it dies. bit.ly/4cTjMsG #gapingvoid

“Fight Club” (1999), starring Ed Norton (as “The Narrator”) and Brad Pitt (as “Tyler Durden”) is considered one of the best movies of its decade. A real classic. bit.ly/4tacAhy #gapingvoid

Thomas McGovern who was well known in environmental circles at the time proposed a nice explanation for why the Norse settlements in Greenland vanished around 1400 A.D. Norse studies suddenly became a hot topic. Money poured in. Departments expanded. And with the funding came new equipment, like radio carbon analysis (RCA) machines they couldn’t afford before. bit.ly/48yWdTl

Joan of Arc walked into Charles VII’s court and convinced him to let her join the army. When she was 13, she began hearing voices of Saints telling her to drive the English out of France and get Charles VII crowned at the cathedral city of Reims. So there she was with no military training, no credentials, no obvious advantages. bit.ly/3PWWEAk

Robert Trivers died last week, perhaps the greatest evolutionary biologist of the last century. Though not as famous as his colleague, Richard Dawkins, he did write the introduction to the “The Selfish Gene”, which speaks for itself. bit.ly/4m4KAcv

[3/3] The cultural OS is what makes human scaling possible at the organizational level. More on that soon — with @JasonKorman @GapingVoid, who helped us build ours at BTO. Full post: see LI

[2/3] Founder: you hold the whole machine in your head. Portfolio exec: dozens of machines, all in crisis. DARPA BTO: you shape conditions, not execution. Each stage required a different OS. The thing that makes you effective at one size is often the bottleneck at the next.

Kaeden is a 22-year-old print specialist at a Staples in upstate New York. She started making TikToks about her job because she genuinely loved it. bit.ly/4lsKr2i