Some good podcasts this week, I liked the ones about aging programmers, bees, and GLP-1s. Also some scientific insights into super blocks. Quote of the Week You bring skills, your experience and your presence to a conversation with someone else who is far more experienced in their life and work than you are, even if they are not yet noticing it. Simplifying Coaching Claire Pedrick Engineering How it feels to be a software engineer when AI is changing our relationship with code [Podcast] - very insightful views from Nate. ...

Quite a few articles about AI costs getting out of control. For something different I recommend the podcast about the origins of Rose Bikes. Quote of the Week What they found instead was that “who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions” (Google 2015). In other words, it all comes down to team dynamics. Accelerate Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim Engineering Do I belong in tech anymore? - I can relate to some of this. ...

A bit of a mixed bag today. Good reads are the Agents and the Era of Overproduction and AI reshaping values at Enode blog posts. Podcast-wise, give Driverless World and the Pedro Sánchez episode a listen. Quote of the Week “It’s like the free puppy,” I continue. “It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.” The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford Leadership TBM 418: Campfires, Trails, and Quests - collection of how AI affects teams. ...

I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad. I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended. Quote of the Week Safe to fail — Organisations need to make it safe to execute a rollback without penalty to the developer. We’ve seen some organisations introduce failure KPIs that demand that all employees (from the CEO down) demonstrate failure at least once per year in order to receive their bonus. The argument is that if they do not demonstrate failure, they are either hiding or not taking enough risks. #Noprojects Evan Leybourn and Shane Hastie Leadership The Vasa - “Understanding why the Vasa sank also gets to something important about how organisations fail.” ...

Two weeks of links. A lot of AI related articles again. I liked the paper about using chatbots in leadership, and the one about the YAML of the mind. If you want a podcast, check out the one about night trains. Quote of the Week The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top. Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman Leadership We-ness: The secret cause of Psychological Safety [Podcast] - very interesting deep dive into how feeling like a team can increase psychological safety. ...