popular bookmarks generated Sat Dec  6 22:20:57 2025 UTC
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Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig | Sinclair Target
[https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/]
A nice comparison of all three and why you might use one over the other.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{zig golang rust gooddesign}


pglite
[https://pglite.dev/]
"a complete wasm build of postgres that's under 3mb gzipped."
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{postgresql wasm db}


Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
[https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
[https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{programming engineering staff article career}


I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail
[https://www.makeuseof.com/wasted-money-over-aa-battery-code-meaning/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{electricity electronics power battery}


Writing a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog
[https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership
[https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{culture management}


How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files | Alex Schapiro
[https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k]
<blockquote>Timeline & Responsible Disclosure</blockquote>
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{security reverseengineering}


Rob Zolkos - Ruby on Rails Software Developer
[https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{css webdesign}


FinFam - Collaborative Financial Planning
[https://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgages]
Compare mortgage rates across 100+ lending companies
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0 Ʊ lyra's epic blog
[https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{svg clickjacking security headache}


Learning Music with Strudel
[https://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{strudel learning music classes todo}


State of AI | OpenRouter
[https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{GenAI stats}


Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud
[https://uncloud.run/]
Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud Take your Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling. Self-hosting made reliable without the complexity.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{docker self-hosting}


tunnl.gg | The easiest way to expose localhost to the internet
[https://tunnl.gg/]
Nice, free, no install, ngrok alternative
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{libraries cool}


AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
[https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{readlater}


Fizzy
[https://www.fizzy.do/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{project-management proprietary software}


In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/]
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all ... That name has been a source of confusion for three decades. It was a marketing decision meant to capitalize on the buzz around Java at the time. The 1995 press release prominently positioned JavaScript as a complement to Java, with the former handling small client-side tasks while Java powered larger enterprise applications. Bill Joy ... said at the time: “JavaScript will be the most effective method to connect HTML-based content to Java applets.” ... Confusion about its relationship to Java continues: The two languages share a name, some syntax conventions, and virtually nothing else. Java was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems using static typing and class-based objects. JavaScript uses dynamic typing and prototype-based inheritance ... Perhaps the biggest irony of all is that Java applets largely vanished from browsers years ago, but JavaScript dominates.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{web_dev}


Daring Fireball: Bad Dye Job
[https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/pAneSIJ
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Alan.app
[https://tyler.io/2025/11/alan/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{macOS}


Everyone in Seattle hates AI | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai society attitudes}


Everything I've learned about homeowner's insurance, natural disasters, and recovery aid in 2025
[https://a.wholelottanothing.org/all-crazy-stuff-ive-learned-about-homeowners-insurance-natural-disasters-and-recovery/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{Climate Housing Insurance}


Crucial is shutting down –because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/ULYBRsV
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
[https://andersmurphy.com/2025/12/02/100000-tps-over-a-billion-rows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sqlite.html]
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{sqlite db database perf bench}


Paged Out!
[https://pagedout.institute/]
Gynvael Coldwind's initiative
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{programming magazine}


Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
[https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie]
<blockquote>How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America</blockquote>some market doom then cost of living doom
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{economy cost_of_living}


Minimal Todo List and Monthly Task Planner Online | PrintCalendar.top
[https://printcalendar.top/]
Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable offline no signup) https://printcalendar.top/ via:feedbin
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{via:feedbin}


And Stay Out
[https://lmnt.me/blog/and-stay-out.html]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?
[https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{mydocs+health}


Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
[https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162]
Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{evil surveillance fascism}


To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
[https://www.doc.cc/articles/we-must-forget]
conversational AI is an “echo chamber to end all echo chambers.” Gibbs points out how even harmless-seeming positive reinforcement can quietly reshape user perceptions and restrict creative or critical thinking.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai llm teaching learning university postsecondary students Education}


The time has come to declare war on AI
[https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/time-to-declare-war-ai-21221535.php]
via @ike@pkm.social boost of https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115662287459082163
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai capitalism}


daninet/mtxt: a human-writable text format for musical notes, timing, and expression.
[https://github.com/Daninet/mtxt]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{mtxt music}


Stacked Diffs with `git rebase --onto`
[https://dineshpandiyan.com/blog/stacked-diffs-with-rebase-onto/]
Using git `rebase --onto` workflow to work with stacked diffs
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


[ untitled ]
[http://]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Python Data Science Handbook | Python Data Science Handbook
[https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{a409 python jupyter tutorial vanderplas}


Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components – React
[https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerability-in-react-server-components]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{react security}


sinelaw/fresh: Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast
[https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{tui terminal editor text ide rust}


The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI - The Atlantic
[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/people-outsourcing-their-thinking-ai/685093/]
Rise of the LLeMmings
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{artificialintelligence chatgpt gemini anthropic atlantic}


25 Things to Say to Your Children | Cup of Jo
[https://cupofjo.com/2025/11/24/25-things-to-say-to-your-children/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{inspiration}


Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148748]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai}


Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit – Mitchell Hashimoto
[https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Science e-Books - NASA Science
[https://science.nasa.gov/multimedia/science-e-books/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{nasa books ebook epub}


onlyrecipe
[https://onlyrecipeapp.com/]
<blockquote>Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards. Your personal recipe collection in the cloud.</blockquote>
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{recipe tools}


Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document — LessWrong
[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{claude llm prompt context long}


52 things I learned in 2025. This year I stopped being a consultant… | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium
[https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8]
Sharp, actionable insights from a former consultant's year of learning. Return for distilled wisdom on work, life, and technology to apply immediately.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{consulting learning technology product-management business-strategy future-predictions}


» Typewriter Plotters
[https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143]
Did you know there were typewriters that used ball point pens to draw not just text but also graphics? I’ve collected several of these over the years. Read on to discover a world that you didn’t know existed.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Grid Paper
[https://grid-paper.daverupert.com/]
grid papaer pattern generator
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{grid tools}


Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/personaltech/why-one-man-is-fighting-for-our-right-to-control-our-garage-door-openers.html]
Chamberlain Group, a company that makes garage door openers, had created the MyQ hubs so that virtually any garage door opener could be controlled with home automation software from Apple, Google, Nest and others. Chamberlain also offered a free MyQ smartphone app.

Two years ago, Chamberlain started shutting down support for most third-party access to its MyQ servers. The company said it was trying to improve the reliability of its products. But this effectively broke connections that people had set up to work with Apple’s Home app or Google’s Home app, among others. Chamberlain also started working with partners that charge subscriptions for their services, though a basic app to control garage doors was still free.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


‘Adversarial poetry’ tricks AI chatbots into divulging harmful content | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/report/838167/ai-chatbots-can-be-wooed-into-crimes-with-poetry]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/R6eGboW
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9014]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073978
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{math education learning culture philosophy brain interesting}


The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better? - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-npu-in-your-phone-keeps-improving-why-isnt-that-making-ai-better/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{smartphone GenAI machine.learning hardware}


IBM CEO Has Doubts That Big Tech's AI Spending Spree Will Pay Off - Business Insider
[https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai}


Sparkling Pistachio Cookies Recipe | King Arthur Baking
[https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sparkling-pistachio-cookies-recipe]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{food:dessert:cookies}


Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession • The Register
[https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/]
Insightful analysis of Zig's departure from GitHub, highlighting concerns about Microsoft's AI focus and its impact on open-source priorities. Return for a deeper understanding of developer sentiment regarding AI's influence on platform development.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{zig microsoft ai github-quits programming-language open-source-gripes}


After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai industry memory market hardware tech siliconvalley datacenter}


Resonant Computing Manifesto
[https://resonantcomputing.org/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Untitled (https://n8n.io/)
[https://n8n.io/]
Open Source Alternative for Zapier
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Tutorial - loopmaster
[https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/how-to-synthesize-a-house-loop]
loopmaster - Live Audio Programming. Create music with code in real-time.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{music}


Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) - by Dwarkesh Patel
[https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-ai-progress-dec-2025]
Analyzes current AI capabilities and future trajectory, offering actionable insights on investment and research focus. Return for a strategic perspective on navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai progress thoughts openai-predictions llm-forecasting agi-timeline}


Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
[https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{technical-debt}


Jane Street Blog - Getting from tested to battle-tested
[https://blog.janestreet.com/getting-from-tested-to-battle-tested/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{testing}


Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive
[https://stacktower.io/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{bestof graphs algorithm}


Giving cash vs. traditional aid: What works, according to ongoing research | The Kid Should See This
[https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/giving-cash-vs-traditional-aid-fighting-poverty-research-teded]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Evaluation Guidebook - a Hugging Face Space by OpenEvals
[https://huggingface.co/spaces/OpenEvals/evaluation-guidebook]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{llm-eval}


Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI
[https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ml-models}


LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
[https://taranis.ie/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46109534
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai llm technology economics programming}


8086 Microcode Browser - Small things retro
[https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/8086_microcode_browser/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-fab.html]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Most technical problems are people problems | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160773]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Jelly Doughnut Cake Recipe | King Arthur Baking
[https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/jelly-doughnut-cake-recipe]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{recipes}


Super-flat ASTs
[https://jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{parser programming compiler plt ast}


Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t-magazine/gen-x-generation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.veAo.0waY9JV81xJE]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137253]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{automata jargon}


China has invented a whole new way to do innovation
[https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/china-has-invented-a-whole-new-way]
Extreme vertical integration makes China's research system different than any other.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{product innovation}


40 questions to ask yourself every year — Steph Ango
[https://stephango.com/40-questions]
40 questions to ask yourself every year https://ift.tt/9YyN7AK life
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{life}


Who Makes a Higher Salary – and the Jobs They Work – FlowingData
[https://flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/who-makes-a-higher-salary-and-the-jobs-they-work/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{statistics}


EU fines X $140 million for violating landmark digital service rules | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/645154/eu-fines-x-dsa-violations-xai-elon-musk]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/waeEcgQ
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Desk Stops
[https://www.deskstop.computer/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{creativity desktop hub}


RETROSPEKT - Reviving Retro Tech for a New Generation
[https://retrospekt.com/]
Free shipping in the usa Retro Audio Formats Retro Audio Formats Cassette Cassette Players Cassette Tapes Compact Disc CD Players CDs Vinyl Turntables Vinyl…
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


e-Books - NASA
[https://www.nasa.gov/ebooks/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{nasa free book list space asteroid cfd}


Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) | Rails Designer
[https://railsdesigner.com/custom-elements/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update | Microsoft 365 Blog
[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/12/04/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update/]
price increase
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{microsoft CSP}


【npm】11月24日以降にnpm installした人へ - Shai-Hulud感染チェック & 多層防御ガイド
[https://zenn.dev/hand_dot/articles/04542a91bc432e]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Why people keep flocking to Linux in 2025 (and it's not just to escape Windows) | ZDNET
[https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-keep-flocking-to-linux-in-2025-and-its-not-just-to-escape-windows/]
Explore the compelling, modern reasons for Linux adoption beyond Windows migration. Discover key advantages in security, customization, and development tools driving its continued growth.
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{linux desktop migration windows-alternatives open-source-adoption enterprise-operating}


We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
[https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-skills-training]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{llm tuning awesome programming}


AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure - IEEE Spectrum
[https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety]
"He offers a caveat related to what’s called situational awareness. LLMs sometimes detect when they’re being evaluated and act nice so they don’t get retrained or shelved."
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{ai safety}


An Astonishing Graph
[https://kottke.org/25/12/an-astonishing-graph]
An Astonishing GraphFor most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like…
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{Articles}


Best TV Shows of 2025 - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/arts/television/best-tv-shows-of-2025.html]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{list bestof tv}


Home  |  web.dev
[https://web.dev/]
Chrome also announced a new developer learning site at . Need to dig in further to figure ou…
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


The 10 Best Books of 2025
[https://slate.com/culture/2025/12/best-books-2025-nonfiction-novels.html]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
[https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-27-crdt-dictionary/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{crdt}


Apple’s head of UI design is leaving for Meta | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/837654/apple-meta-alan-dye-designer]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/ULYBRsV
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


This may be the last time
[https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/this-may-be-the-last-time]
“Yet each of these instances is a good reminder that if you wait for certain victory to act, you’ll never do anything. Change starts with smaller actions, with going against the odds. And the strangest possibilities can sometimes lead to the biggest gains. So open every door you can to the future that you want to see.”
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{history politics advice america!}


2025 App Store Award Winners Revealed - MacStories
[https://www.macstories.net/news/2025-app-store-award-winners-revealed/]
via MacStories https://ift.tt/N3JSU74
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


Stratechery by Ben Thompson: An Interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes About Atlassian and AI
[https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-atlassian-ceo-mike-cannon-brookes-about-atlassian-and-ai/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 


The Best Releases of 2025 · Feature ⟋ RA
[https://ra.co/features/4350]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{music}


Fresh - The Terminal Text Editor
[https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/]
2025-12-06T05:47:01Z 
{development terminal editor}


Feedback Loop (#513) - by Robert Glazer
[https://robertglazer.substack.com/p/friday-forward-feedback-loop-513]
Dec 04, 2025 | Friday Forward  | by Robert Glazer.++If you want feedback to flow in your organization, you have to model it++a recent conversation with leadership coach and speaker Jeff Hancher.An army veteran with a troubled childhood, Jeff began his business career as a blue-collar worker at a large company before earning 10 promotions and rising to a senior leadership role. Now, as a leadership expert, coach and speaker, Jeff has a particular focus on something I’m very passionate about myself: the value and importance of >>feedback<<.There was one point Jeff said that was so poignant that I revisited the recording afterwards so I could capture it correctly:“You can’t get better without feedback. Everybody listening today is a product of the feedback they’ve been given [i.e. = "consciousness-shaped interplay"], or the feedback that’s been missing. That’s who we are. If you’re not where you want to be, you haven’t been given the proper feedback, or you have and you haven’t listened.”Let’s unpack both sides of that.First, top performers seek out feedback >>intentionally<<, recognizing that it’s a prerequisite for growth. These individuals have learned to separate their identity from their performance [i.e. = "don't take things personally"] and take feedback as a path to growth, rather than an attack.Great athletes hire multiple coaches. Exceptional leaders invite criticism and often have strong mentors who tell them what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. >>Top performers<< don’t wait for feedback to be given. They **ask for it** [i.e. = "actively seeking], listen carefully, and act on it.On the flipside, when feedback is missing, that absence leaves a different, but visible, mark. I’ve seen promising employees >>underperform<<, not because they weren’t capable, but because no one told them honestly what they needed to change. Maybe a manager avoided a **tough conversation**. Maybe the feedback was too vague, too late, or too sugar-coated to land.Over time, those missed moments >>compound<<. >>Habits<< harden, and >>course corrections<< that could have been simple become difficult, or even impossible. In those situations, everyone loses: the individual, the team, and the organization.There’s a third category, too: people who seem to want feedback, but fail to act on it. I’ve seen this time and again. These people, who I call Repeaters, say they want to grow, and they nod emphatically when you coach them. But then nothing changes and you’re having the exact same conversation with them six months later. Repeaters are the equivalent of people who go to the doctor, hear that their health is at risk, and refuse to take the medicine that could help.As a leader this is always what’s most painful: watching someone fail or struggle because they’re unwilling to improve the things that are holding them back. Sometimes these people genuinely can’t change, more often they simply don’t take feedback to heart.To give everyone the best possible shot, it’s vital to build a feedback-driven culture. This starts with leaders. If you want feedback to flow in your organization, you have to model what it looks like to welcome it, respond to it, and apply it. That means inviting input from everyone, listening without >>defensiveness<<, and showing how it changes your behavior.When leaders do that consistently, people feel safer offering their own observations. And when leaders challenge managers on their team to give frequent, honest feedback, those managers are more likely to act on that guidance.Of course, it’s also worth remembering that sometimes the absence of success is feedback in itself. If you or your team isn’t hitting goals, the problem may go beyond bad luck or external conditions. It might be a sign that something important hasn’t been shared or hasn’t been heard.None of us can see ourselves clearly. We all have >>blind spots<<. And the people who offer us honest >>feedback<< are **offering a gift**. As Jeff notes, whether we accept it or reject it often determines whether we >>grow<< or stay stuck.If you’re not where you want to be in some area of your life or work, it might be time to start asking some >>harder questions<< and really listening to the answers.I’d highly encourage you to listen to my interview with Jeff.Quote of The Week“What you do not know about yourself, someone else does.” – Unknown
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