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The Great Resignation has definitely arrived in mainstream media.
Lots of good podcasts this time, about career paths, engineering organisations, learning and weird Chinese cassette tape culture.
Management
Managing Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering? [Podcast] - interview with Camille Fournier going into details of platform teams
Why all new managers want to quit - I feel you
Why you need an emotional-support network at work - it isn't easy, but identifying peers as support and creating community of practice groups is a start
Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills - I think we are doing better at this, but interviews in general are assessing anxiety and you always have to take this into account
Measuring software development productivity - going away from individual productivity to higher level measurements. Very good overview of different areas to measure.
No-compensation Ratings - ratings are tricky, so is compensation
The Importance of Writing in Software Engineering [Podcast] - I would argue writing is important in most jobs
Intercom’s Jane Honey on perfecting career paths for product management [Podcast] - I usually just see engineering career paths, so this is a different perspective for other roles
Engineering
How a couple of characters brought down our site - I would argue a couple of characters can bring down any site
Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript - this is probably in our future and I am already worried
Deleting Data in a Microservices Architecture - microservices, creating jobs of the future
How Two Interns Are Helping Secure Millions of Lines of Code - the disadvantage of choosing new languages: all the tools have to be created again
Test Desiderata - properties for good tests according to Kent Beck
Backroom/Frontroom to Smooth Releases - decouple code deployments from feature deployments, through feature flags for example
Work
Why remote working in Spain is once again a thing of the future - good intentions going wrong
Mindful employees are more likely to experience self-control depletion as a result of “surface acting” at work - mindfulness at work is on my list of things that I am highly sceptical about. Good to see studies about this.
Kim Scott (Author of Radical Candor) on How to Get Sh*t Done Fast and Fair in the Workplace [Podcast] - feedback and inclusion
This insane tech hiring market [Podcast] - I am still suspicious about this being true for all companies, but still a good episodeThe Great Resignation
- The ‘Great Resignation’ is altering the workforce dynamic — maybe for good
- Why all your coworkers who quit are about to come back as ‘boomerang employees’ - I haven't heard about this being a thing, especially in tech
- Retaining talent during the great resignation - basically being a good employer
- The great resignation is here! Seven things bosses should do to make brilliant staff stay - being nice?
- On the Front Lines of the Great Resignation - "Employees are tired because many are essentially working multiple jobs in the same company to make up for layoffs or people who’ve quit.", it is creating a snowball effect of dissatisfaction
- ‘An unbelievable sense of freedom’: why Americans are quitting in record numbers - people leaving without a new job is especially worrying
- ‘The Great Resignation’: almost one in four UK workers planning job change
Technology
Putting on my hacker hoodie to View Source - Google & Apple are currently fighting about who will inherit the evil empire crown from Microsoft
Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index - nice, this was a problem in a previous job
From the Top: Building Zwift [Podcast] - cool insight in building and growing Zwift
Urbanism
Few willing to change lifestyle to save the planet, climate survey finds - surprise!
So wird das nichts mit der Verkehrswende [German] - Germany still being a bit rubbish at everything that isn't a car
45 Min Vorfahrt fürs Fahrrad? | Themenwoche 2021 [Video, German] - this is quite scary at times
The hidden climate costs of America’s free parking spaces - less parking = more space for people and fewer cars
It started with 5 families. Now hundreds are biking to school together in Barcelona - this Spanish initiative is spreading through the media at the moment. Seeing kids cycling always make me happy and hopeful for cities.
The Top Ten Bikes in Amsterdam in 2021 - what you expect, but with pretty pictures
Mobility protests in the Netherlands of the 1970s: Activism, innovation, and transitions - study about the effects of the protests
The bikelash paradox: how cycle lanes enrage some but win votes - people love the change once it happens, but never before
Random Tapes
Mixtape: Dakou [Podcast] - one of my favourite podcasts is making a series about cassette tapes, this one is especially good. I never heard about Dakou.
#123 William Irvine: How To Live a Stoic Life [Podcast] - This is the first podcast about stoicism that I liked.
Paella, ‘icon of the Mediterranean diet’, given protected status - probably the best one-pan dishes
Beating the To Do List [Podcast] - I am a "productivity enthusiast", but definitely with low expectations of change
How to stop languishing and start finding flow | TED Talks Daily [Podcast]
Slow, Life-sized Travel - a conversation with Carl Honoré Ep 19 [Podcast] - life-sized travel: we are flying halfway around the globe to spend a couple of days in a coffee shop or bar
Have a chill time moving house in Unpacking, out now - tidying without getting up ... brilliant
Google News to return to Spain - finally! Until then just use news.google.co.uk
#122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion [Podcast] - influence not manipulation
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2021 - so I keep posting them because I am fascinated by drive failures, not because I care
Ti TMS0119 - single-chip calculator (1971) : weekend die-shot - another weird blog I follow, but now I discovered http://www.datamath.org/ through this, which is lovely
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