Summarized in three sentences or less.

http://blog.wix.engineering/2015/12/10/scaling-to-100m-mysql-is-a-better-nosql/

MySQL is actually pretty fast, and in most cases you can probably use it instead of one of those newfangled “NoSQL” databases. But, for the best performance in those situations, store all the data that you’re not querying on in a denormalized JSON blob to avoid JOINs and transactions.

https://medium.com/@sandofsky/why-big-apps-arent-moving-to-swift-yet-f8e9a89ef661

Porting a large codebase to a new language is a lot of work (…), and is especially annoying when the language keeps changing.  Swift isn’t done changing yet.

http://zef.me/blog/6023/who-needs-git-when-you-got-zfs

ZFS is cool.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-sachs-dumps-employee-ranking-system-1464272443

Having an annual review where your performance for the past year is ranked from 1-9 is not very helpful.  Instead, Goldman will focus on telling employees what they can do to improve.  They’ll also experiment with using online tools for continuous performance feedback (7geese???)

https://stratechery.com/2016/the-curse-of-culture/

Organizations have a set of cultural “underlying assumptions” built up from beliefs and values that resulted in repeated success.  However, these cultural assumptions can prevent an organization from changing direction, which can destroy it if the assumptions no longer work/are no longer valid.  Therefore, in addition to helping define/create the culture of an organization, a leader must also be responsible for destroying the culture if it’s no longer working.