Tag: hacking

  • Over-Engineering Culture, Hacking, and Complexity

    Over-Engineering Culture, Hacking, and Complexity

    I was talking to a fellow escapee of The Conglomerate and we were talking about over-engineering culture. In the sense of “lol things built because it was time for someone to get promoted” and in the sense of complexity. The thing about layers and layers of (debatably necessary) abstractions is that they make things that should…

  • Awesome Foundation KW Meets Kwartzlab

    Awesome Foundation KW Meets Kwartzlab

    This week we had yet another amazing pitch night for Awesome Foundation KW. It was a tough decision, but we decided to fund Kwartzlab’s “Hacky Halloween” project. I’m really excited about this project, and I think this paragraph from their blog post shows why: We live in a world of electronics. Learning a simple skill like…