Overall, a lot of interesting stuff to think about this week.
Leadership
How Do I More Effectively Build Stakeholder Alignment? [Podcast] - excellent example of coaching, where the thinker is already aware of the answers.
Communicating Your Engineering Team’s Impact at Work - Tips for Leaders [Podcast] - obviously pushing LinearB a bit, but still good.
A Friendly Reminder to Cost-Cutters: Keep the Company a Great Place to Work for Survivors - the list is helpful, I have seen all of these go wrong at some point.
TBM 252: How to Troubleshoot Status Updates and Syncs - don't just do the meetings, make sure there is impact
Hire Better Managers: 35 Interview Questions for Assessing a Candidate - good if you are hiring or looking for your next opportunity (like me currently).
TBM 251: Scale vs. Efficiency - you can't have it all.
Developing leadership styles - I have been thinking about leadership styles a lot lately. "The key insight to remember is that you can use any leadership style badly, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful when done well. "
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. - I think I had the slides in a previous week.
Runbook vs. Playbook, SOP, User Guide: How Do They Compare? - it's all the same.
Engineering
Engineering platforms and golden paths: Building better developer experiences [Podcast] - treating the developers as customers is the key here (and the customer is not always right)
Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix - I like the idea of having a proper support system for your platform teams.
Bjarne Stroustrup’s Plan for Bringing Safety to C++ - C++ was my first OOP language, but it is a different beast nowadays. I am not sure if this is a good thing.
Protomaps is an open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage - pretty cool
Environment
Bill Gates: How I stay positive on climate change [Podcast] - It is nice to see some optimism, even if I don't share it.
The Oatly Chronicles Part 1: The Big Dairy Problem [Podcast] - it's more than just about the environment, good background on the brand.
Young Europeans more likely to quit driving and have fewer children to save planet - they will grow up, though.
How green is your waterproof cycling jacket? Why some tech is being phased out in favour of more eco-friendly materials - I still have the old stuff, but I am looking forward to what they come up with.
Cycling
Unraveling the SRAM Experiment: Tubeless vs. Tubular Tires — Are the Claims Inflated? - more statistics on an aspect of bicycles.
The Real Reason You Should Get an E-bike - "It’ll cut your emissions. It’ll also make you happier."
Pedal to Freedom - HOW CYCLING SAVED MY LIFE - with Owen Vermeulen [YouTube] - cycling for mental health is underrated.
Urbanism
Impacts of parking and accessibility on retail-oriented city centres - parking in front of shops is not good for retail (via Parkplätze vor der Ladentür sind schlecht fürs Geschäft [German])
Does Bicibús reflect and reproduce social injustices? - probably
Germany's "Green" City (with more bikes than cars!) [YouTube] - there are good bits in Germany!
Random Animals
Mangrove forests: Steely gaze of young tigress wins photo award - brilliant photographs
Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain [Podcast] - a bit of meta talk about one of my favourite podcasts "In Our Time"
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