Friday Links

I am going to give this another try. I post links I find interesting every Friday at work. There was some interest to make these public. As I don't have any other place to put them I am just going to post them here.

Important disclaimer: inclusion of a link doesn't mean I agree with the content, it just means that I find it interesting. I do include a lot of links of Buffer and Basecamp, but I often disagree completely with their position.

So here it goes ...

What's Your Cultural Profile?
https://www.erinmeyer.com/self-assessment-questionnaire/

AppSignal Dashboard: Live updating insights
https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/07/05/appsignal-dashboard-live-updating-insights.html

My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups
http://firstround.com/review/my-lessons-from-interviewing-400-engineers-over-three-startups/

Rands: Anti-Flow
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/anti-flow/

Webpacker Assets Demo
https://github.com/testdouble/webpacker-assets-demo#webpacker-assets-demo

Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/california_data_privacy_law/

Data For Good Barcelona Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Data-For-Good-Barcelona/

How We Set Goals in Tech at King
https://techblog.king.com/how-we-set-goals-in-tech-at-king/

Changing the change rules at Google
https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/changing-the-change-rules-at-google/

Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader
https://lwn.net/Articles/759654/rss

Fewer meetings courtesy of automated check-ins
https://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/12/fewer-meetings-courtesy-of-automated-check-ins

Modeling User Journeys via Semantic Embeddings
https://codeascraft.com/2018/07/12/modeling-user-journey-via-semantic-embeddings/

The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3

How We Do Team Benefits As a Remote and International Company
https://open.buffer.com/benefits-remote-company/

Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSD
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690

New – Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lifecycle-management-for-amazon-ebs-snapshots/