Friday, June 17, 2022

Friday Links 22-20

Acid House flyer with smiley illustration

For some reason I have no urbanism topics or podcasts! 

Dave Kellogg brings an interesting perspective on leadership levels. It is an old article but still valid. He seems to be going against the stream in general. Worth a follow! 

Leadership

Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP - interesting perspective I agree on 

What we learned in studying the most effective founders - mostly as expected, but this is interesting: "While most people would expect self-confidence to grow with time, our data suggests the most effective founders are not nearly as confident as the least effective founders are." 

Stop Interviewing With Leet Code - everybody hates them, all of FAANG loves them

Agile

Your Roadmap Isn’t Really a Road Map - everybody knows this, right? 

Product Backlog Building Canvas - good user stories are hard, here are some helpful frameworks

“Measure Twice, Cut Once” isn’t very Agile. - do experiments, not perfect planning

Technology 

End of an era: Microsoft retires Internet Explorer - about bloody time, but now we have Chrome as the new IE

How we think about browsers - from GitHub

Work

The title Chief Notion Officer is popping up more and more — here's what it looks like - I posted about CNO before, but this is how it could look in practice 

Research Concludes: We Waste Our Time At Work - less meetings are good, especially if you are an IC

Random Acid

No card, no entry: documenting the world’s biggest collection of membership cards from the infamous acid house era - iirc I only had one or two club cards

‘It changed lives and opened minds’: a visual record of the birth of acid house - I was a little bit late to the party 

Heatwave in Spain to drive temperature above 40C in parts of country - I know!

Other Links 

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Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kind of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time you might notice common themes though.
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Friday, June 10, 2022

Friday Links 22-19

bicycle in front of a cycling sculpture
A short one this week. 

Some fun technical reads on Meta's cache invalidation and Linux pipes. 

Leadership

Valuing experience [Podcast] - another great discussions by two coaches

TBM 25/52: In Defense of Frameworks (and Process) - there are always frameworks and they make life easier and more predictable 

CTO Craft MiniCon - The Complete Hiring Arc (In Under 3 hours!) - Full event [YouTube] - recording of a recent hiring conference 

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap - another good post about career paths

Engineering

Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution - memcache is still around! But scale is just something different at Meta

Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab - also see Stockholm Syndrome 

What Would It Take for Roda to Win? - first time I hear about Roda. Good to see another Ruby framework.

Why still 80 columns? [Podcast] - I am in the 80 columns camp! Some of the history is cool.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? - people have too much time on their hand to solve weird puzzles.

Work

Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit - probably pre-empting law changes 

Our Virtual Hackathon - sadly the default now

Random Bicycles

Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up - soon available for everybody! 

Episode #298 – Bicycle Mayors Program Founded To Counter Reducing Numbers of Dutch Cyclists [Podcast] - cycling share for kids in the Netherlands is going down. If they can't make it work, who can?

505. Did Domestic Violence Really Spike During the Pandemic? [Podcast] - it is difficult, but probably not 

Random [Comic] - all my facial expressions

Other Links

Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kind of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time you might notice common themes though.
More about the links in a separate post: About Friday Links.

Friday, June 03, 2022

Friday Links 22-18

Robot torso
Quick one today with a new Hiring section.  

The podcasts abut coaching and with the Meetup CEO are also pretty good.

Leadership

TBM 24/52: Your Head Hurts. But Why? - how to debug dissonance, very cool 

Leader As Coach - with Andy Crissinger & Chris VandenBrink [Podcast] - also highlighting the difference between coaching as a leader and a coach

How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation [Podcast] - from the Meetup CEO

Hiring

Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem - lots of good stuff in there

Behavioural interviews - some of these helped me prepare for interviews, now I am thinking about how to interview

Engineering

Algebraic Data Types in Elixir - I am not sure if Elixir's or Ruby's type checking is weirder

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot - I hope this ends up on mobile too

Random Robots

Ahead of an electric motorcycle, Kawasaki shows off an electric goat robot with a human rider - this is the stuff nightmares are made of

504. Introducing “Off Leash” [Podcast] - I didn't realise I wanted a podcast about dogs!

Everything [Comic] - indeed

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp look back: ‘He came from the 60s, having multiple girlfriends at once’ - I love their YouTube channel

More Links

Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kind of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time you might notice common themes though.
More about the links in a separate post: About Friday Links.