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I got pulled into a rabbit hole about Thomasson Hyperart this week, which was fun.
Management
The Skill of Org Design - great long read about organisation design
How to safely think in systems - "When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right"
TBM 41a/52: Slow Down on Your Own Terms - I like the idea of working in different speeds. When introducing changes for example it is important to slow down (or take a long breath I like to call it) before introducing more
TBM 41b/52: Suitably Detailed Roadmap Items - this is just an expanded tweet, but a log model of planning long roadmaps
Responsible Tech Playbook [mostly PDF] - collection of guides from Thoughtworks about making better technology decisions
Learning-focused engineering [Podcast] - about learning and teaching in the context of companies
What Is a User Story? - nice opinionated overview
Asymmetric Workloads: One Way Leaders Can Poison Their Culture - easy thing to step into
Engineering Teams Are Just Networks - it is about the team and not just the individual
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum - absence is probably incorrect, but he always goes for the click-bait titles
Why do we recommend working small, especially in a constantly changing environment? - nice diagram to show the effects
Review Notes: Shape Up - I didn't see this back then. I am much mire sceptical and he also lists all the caveats
Burnout in Software Development - Survey Results 2021 - that paints a pretty bleak picture
Minimize Team Cognitive Load to Increase Flow - this is probably one of the most important thing to think about when creating teams
Mission on Repeat: To Lead in High Pressure Environments, Get Laser-Focused on the Standards with David Robinson (Former Commanding Officer at the US Marine Corps) [Podcast] - I am still not a fan of taking the military as an example, but this is a great episode
Engineering
Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve - on reducing CI costs
Welcome to the Verica Open Incident Database - pretty cool and timely
A web developer's 'happiest' announcement: Google Search is saying goodbye to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 - best news since Flash's EOL
Dungeon 235--So I Got to Thinking ... - I love this series. After the plot twist he no gets into the weeds.
How Red Hat uses GitLab for kernel development [LWN] - weird that Fedora didn't choose GitLab
Work
Facebook denies end to 'WFH forever' rule in wake of mega outage - in today's "forever news", ...
Here’s why flexibility, not hybrid, is what employees say they want - clearly
Technology
Submarine Cable Map - pretty, but are these all of them?
Facebook Outage
- More details about the October 4 outage - Facebook's post
- Facebook Is Down - Schneier
- Facebook outage: what went wrong and why did it take so long to fix after social platform went down? - The Guardian
Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. - "investors" got scammed with NFTs and then were surprised to be scammed
Environment
‘Eco-anxiety’: fear of environmental doom weighs on young people - I guess that makes me young. Nobody cares about these fears though, while they were very concerned about young people during the pandemic (when it suited them)
Peter Lustig und das Elektroauto (1983) [YouTube, German] - electric car on German TV in 1983
3 new ways to navigate more sustainably with Maps - some nice new features for Google Maps. I wish they would also change navigation to avoid populated areas if possible (also on The Guardian)
Microsoft climate head says planting trees won’t be enough to remove CO2 from the air - surprise!
Urbanism
Berlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’ - in Germany? Hah!
What’s the Point of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery? - no point
Birmingham to become a super-sized low-traffic neighbourhood - another town, millions to go, ...
Promenades & Medians of Passeig Sant Joan [YouTube] - my office and former living hood. I hate central bike paths with a passion. I still remember this road before the transformation. It was much worse.
Random Hyperart
Hyperart Thomasson - I came across the term via this tweet. I was always facinated by this, but never new it had a name.
I’m a life coach, you’re a life coach: the rise of an unregulated industry - MLM?
How Tracking and Streaks Help You Establish Habits and Reach Your Goals - good personal summary about tracking streaks
Animal rights groups call for sterilization methods to control wild boars - the boars are back in town!
‘Email is a zombie that keeps rising from the dead’: the endless pursuit of Inbox Zero - once you get into GTD Inbox Zero just makes sense
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