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The Starfish and the Spider

Brafman & Beckstrom

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Evanish liked it affiliate
When building an organization, you can build it like a starfish (independent arms that work together) or a spider (every limb answers to the top). This book does a good job of explaining the concept and how you can apply it to your company inside and out (especially if you have an API/ecosystem).

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.