Carl Baatz
Essays
About
Memo — a learning-app experiment
Inert ideas
Morality: Intentions or results
Economic software testing
Reading
Positioning
Relatedness, competence, and autonomy
Motivation regulation
The CEO’s job
Intrinsic business value
Assets
Culture, clarity, and focus
A founder’s perspective on 4 years with Haskell
3 lessons from management consulting
Three ways to spoil a discussion
The civilized programmer
Why is serious training rare?
How people pay: money, time, and discomfort
Design with mental models and iteration
A learning platform for enterprises
On simplicity
Functionalism beats minimalism
Avoid deception!
7 types of resilience
Not a Luddite fallacy
On quality
What I’ve learnt (so far)
Some signs of Stoicism
Thoughts on Excel
Deliberate practice
What’s Jobs’s end game?
Why a cottage in a lake is bad art
On the mechanisation of thought
Intentionally refine your taste
Artless fashion