My weird hobby topics will continue.
Leadership
Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot - Code as Craft is back and it is good. I really liked this one. Pivots are tricky, the ground shifts below you.
Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better - nothing really news, but using surveys and data to figure out developer happiness
When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done - a common problem and a good long read about how to fix it
It is not my job - "Glue work vs gap filling" is a great way of describing Staff+ roles
21 secrets the Scrum Guide doesn’t tell you - "How we cripple Scrum to fit the broken system" - I am not a Scrum purists, but there a lot of good stuff here
Everything You Need to Know About Answering Behavioral Interview Questions - this is more for the interviewee, but a good introduction to behavioural questions
Asynchronous Communication is the Great Leveler in Engineering - not much new, just a good summary
Technology
Stupid RCU Tricks: Is RCU Watching? - I can't stop myself from reading posts about Linux internals! (til: Livejournal is still a thing)
What happened to Perl 7? - I did forget about it! I really don't use Perl much any more. It is such a fun language though.
747 Hackathon - security researches are clearly having too much fun!
Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software [Podcast] - Bruce Schneier is great. This is the first time I hear him in a podcast and I like how down to earth and humble he is.
Environment
Toxic particles from brakes to be included in ‘Euro 7’ emission rules - still missing tires
Urbanism
Crash Course - words matter
Random Books
a book like {foo} - book recommender and recommender for books outside your bubble: Break the Bubble!
Bikes4Ukraine - crowdfunding sends bikes to Lviv, Ukraine [YouTube] - cool initiatives, but it doesn't look like the crowd funding is going anywhere
layoffs.fyi - well, that's depressing
Classic Desert Island Discs - George Michael [Podcast] - I don't think I listed to this one the first time around, really good and what a guy!
How can we live an ethical life? [Podcast] - great interview with the Philosopher Peter Singer
The 6 Horizons of Focus - it has been a long time since I read GTD and I completely forgot about the horizons, this is a good reminder
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