Friday Links

Self-made superheroes and street naps: Manila – a cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/12/self-made-superheroes-and-street-naps-manila-a-cartoon-marius-black

Technical Skills
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-skills/

Software Engineeringat Google
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf

Research: Why Managers Ignore Employees’ Ideas
https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-why-managers-ignore-employees-ideas

The Agile Crisis — a Primer
https://medium.com/@wischweh/the-agile-crisis-2016-9fb1c2f52af5

The tax you are paying for using Scrum
https://medium.com/@aevitas/the-tax-you-are-paying-for-using-scrum-50f12298b422

Google makes the power of BigQuery available in Sheets
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/google-makes-the-power-of-bigquery-available-in-sheets/

The 9 mistakes you don’t know you’re making as a new manager
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-9-mistakes-you-dont-know-youre-making-as-a-new-manager/

Infocom
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/infocom/

Zork Text
https://zork.glitch.me/

How To Grow as An Engineering Manager in 7 Steps
https://medium.com/@inowland/how-to-grow-as-an-engineering-manager-in-7-steps-a1bf4dcf5e78

Rage Against the Codebase: Programmers and Negativity
https://medium.com/@way/rage-against-the-codebase-programmers-and-negativity-d7d6b968e5f3

Overhead? Maybe not.
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/overhead/

Meetings Are Not For You
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/meetings-are-not-for-you/

How To Deliver Software Without Deadlines
https://medium.com/@jproco/how-to-deliver-software-without-deadlines-872f8eb244b0