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Management
The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers - I am not sure what is so micro about them, but still not bad for a list like this
Ask for Help - I wonder if this is one thing that is easier in offices
New research reveals employees value well-being over climbing the ladder - about time?
Is it Safe to Speak Up at Work? [Podcast] - about psychological safety
How we’ve built and evolved our habit of giving back at Buffer - Buffer still doing so much right
Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - hold your opinions a bit more tight
The Science of Storytelling: Entering Conversations with Curiosity and Defaulting to the Uncomfortable with Karen Eber (CEO of Eber Leadership Group) [Podcast] - she is a good story teller
Making retrospectives effective — and fun [Podcast] - the most important team meeting, now with added fun
Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp - I have days when I want to switch to IC again!
Engineering
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox - cloud is relative expensive and from a certain size it might make sense to host yourself
Analyzing Customer Issues to Improve User Experience - if you have so many issues that you need big data
What is Code Review? – Guidelines and Best Practices - good summary, especially of the benefits (mostly not about finding bugs)
Patterns of Legacy Displacement - Martin Fowler on strategies to replace legacy systems
Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters - this is a great series and filters can be so broken
A Guide to Running an Engineering Program - interesting, if you have the man power
Extract Product Lines - pattern of legacy displacement
Three Ways We Share Context at Shopify Engineering - handbook, talks, podcasts
Joy, or Not - Ron Jeffries muses about programming
Remote Work
Let’s switch ‘working from home’ to ‘working near home’ - mixing working and living in cities will be key to solving a lot of our problems
Why introverts excelled at working from home - some introverts maybe. It sounds like this could have been written in April 2020
The Case for Location-Independent Salaries - I guess this decision is easier in SF
Gabe Newell Says Remote Work Reduced Valve Productivity By 25% - focus productivity up, team productivity down
Technology
Releasing Org-roam v2 - upgrade was a medium hassle, but now everything works again
This beach does not exit - fake dream beaches
REvil is Off-Line - good news for some companies
fullstaqruby - do we need another Ruby distribution? and was the correct spelling taken?
NSO Group Hacked - or possibly leaked
NDA Expired - let's spill the beans on a weird startup - weird indeed
Environment
The lurking threat to solar power’s growth - this doesn't seem to take home solar cells and batteries in account. Maybe commercial solar plants just don't make sense any more once everybody is using "free" energy. Power usage will also increase with more electric cars and factories.
100 Dinge, die bei der CO₂-Wende schieflaufen [German] - nothing will change until the government changes in Germany
One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study - surprise: EVs cleaner as ICE. And they are getting even cleaner as the grid does.
How does the human body cope with extreme heat? (part two) [Podcast] - where is part one?
Critical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds - meanwhile politicians are still trying to avoid change
Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption - Queens avoiding change too
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
“My view is that people shouldn’t take their per-person mortality emissions too personally,” he said. “Our emissions are very much a function of the technology and culture of the place that we live.”
Dell pulls energy-hungry gaming PCs in six US states after failing efficiency rules - my computer is no game rig, but I bet it is also not super energy efficient
Cycling
Big rise in UK weekend cycling amid calls for more investment - change is so slow
Americans Are Ready to Embrace Bicycles, but There’s One Thing Standing in Their Way - I could list a long list of things, but this wasn't on my radar
German cycling director sent home over racial slur during Tokyo time trial - someone visiting from the 1970s
Urbanism
How I Got Into Urban Planning (and Why I Hate Houston) [YouTube] - Houston seems pretty bad, but there are more Houstons around
The History of Barcelona, in 26 Interactive Maps - great maps of the development of Barcelona
Barcelona’s Connectivity with the World - connectivity visualized
The Power of Getting Paid Not to Park at Work - subsidised parking is everything you don't want in cities
Low-traffic schemes halve number of road injuries, study shows - life is full of surprises
Random Breaks
Breaking through [Podcasts] - some history of break-dance and an outlook of having it at the Olympics
Hi-res audio is much ado about not very much (for most people) - also pointless if you are older than 30 or so
Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be - friendships are tricky
Eco and organic cycling apparel is MÃÄD - hand made custom sustainable bike clothes from Barcelona!
Basic Instructions: How to recast a superhero [Comic] - helpful
Lockdowns do not harm health more than Covid, say researchers - there goes another excuse of the anti-lockdown crowd. Not that they ever really cared.
Wo früh Masken getragen wurden, gab es deutlich weniger Covid-19-Tote [German] - turns out masks help
The Renault R5 Turbo is smoking hot | Revelations with Jason Cammisa | Ep. 01 [YouTube] - still one of my favourite cars. I had models and pictures on the wall of the R5 Turbo when I was in school
Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade - they still have all the alternatives though and want to go into health
Barcelona cannabis clubs face closure in new legal setback - there are some black sheep
‘They had a date to kill the cow. So I stole her’: how vegan activists are saving Spain’s farm animals - they saved a few cows in my village
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