I am switching to more off-line reading in the coming weeks. I still got a few interesting bits this week.
A lot of good summary posts this week. I like the principles and koans one for example.
Leadership
Job Ads to Hire Software Engineers: My Advice - nothing new here, but good to have it in one place
When your coaching questions freak someone out - I never even considered that. Maybe I have been lucky so far.
Rethinking Flexibility at Work [Podcast] - about autonomy
TBM 18/52: We Need Someone Who Has Done "It" Before - "You have to resist either seeing everything as solved, or everything up in the air. It’s a mix. That’s….”it”."
The 8 Best Professional Development Goals for Managers - good summary of the usual ideas
TWH#35: Principles - for leadership and management
Engineering
Five Koans of Software Architecture - "“Graph databases are lies”" :-)
Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers - that was pretty bad, but I can understand how it can happen
Do You Really Code? - assessing if you are a programmer with a simple survey
Technology
The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy - oh no!
NULL [Podcast] - technology is pretty hopeless
Clever Cryptocurrency Theft - "It is insane to me that cryptocurrencies are still a thing."
Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m - poor thing!
Urbanism
U.S. and European Zoning, Compared [YouTube] - apparently you can do zoning OK and it used to be a good idea
What are the most effective ways to get cars out of cities? - Spoiler: congestion charges
The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land - I hope this spreads around the world ... unlikely
Air pollution and CO2 from daily mobility: Who emits and Why? Evidence from Paris - SUVs from the suburbs
Environment
I went on TV to explain Just Stop Oil – and it became a parody of Don’t Look Up - this is amazing, the show and moderators should be ashamed of themselves
Net Zero Check - "If your organisation tweets about #EarthDay we'll tweet with an assessment of your climate commitments."
Random Bikes
Secondhand bikes and city traffic: the joy and grit of an African cycle race - we are spoiled
Blinde Bäckerin verwöhnt Radler mit selbstgemachten Kuchen [German] - if you cycling around Berlin, make this one of your stops. I found it by chance and it was an amazing experience.
The music cassette tape revival is in full rewind mode - they are cheaper too!
1980's Kenwood Tape Deck - Auto-reverse fix [YouTube] - this is my favourite retro audio channel now after Techmoan
Someone managed to fit an entire Raspberry Pi computer inside the body of a cassette - not a cassette any more!
To Do List [Comic] - I feel seen again
Links
Bruce Lawson: Reading List 289
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