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Last Friday Links of the year, 41 of 52 Fridays. Mostly skipping for holidays or sickness.
All the best for 2023!
Leadership
How Do I Overcome My Disillusionment with the Executive Team? [Podcasts] - as a coach, it makes sense to help the listener to find a way to a better place. Some of it sounded mostly about avoidance.
What to do when my feedback doesn’t land? - is it just about feedback to help or do you need to set boundaries
Team Matching Creates Incentives - for managers to grow. I never worked in an organisation that applied team matching. I, personally, like to give hiring managers more autonomy on whom they hire.
Engineering
The Pitfalls of Treating Microservices as a Blanket Solution - definitely fit them to your teams, products, and organisation capabilities
Year in Review 2022: Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions - Ruby is still sticking around (Rails doesn't get mentioned much)
Work
How to hold on to your high performing employees, with Fresia Jackson. [Podcast] - interesting insights into performance rating systems and reviews
Why and How We Close Buffer For The Last Week Of The Year - at Devex we did this twice a year and it is brilliant to have everybody away at the same time
Urbanism
Traffic wars: who will win the battle for city streets? - it is not a "war". It is about restoring the balance again.
Driving Through Paris? That’s Going to Get a Lot Tougher in 2024 - Paris still leading the way of transformation.
London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city - narrow escape
Shifting gears: why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lot - slowly ... very slowly
The Lifesaving Tech Drivers Hate [YouTube] - drivers want to break the law without punishment
Cyclist clears way with homemade bicycle snowplow [YouTube] - this looks like so much fun, possibly a bit dangerous
Copenhagen is a City of WEIRD Bicycle Bridges (and some don’t work well) [YouTube] - clearly overrated city, while still being better than most
Vienna Straddles the Danube with Modern TRAINS and Sleek TRAMS [YouTube] - TIL: second-largest German-speaking city!
Barcelona 'systematically' breached EU air quality directive, rules European Court of Justice - they don't care
Spain allowed NO2 levels to exceed limits in Madrid and Barcelona, EU court rules - I hope there will be meaningful punishment
Japan To Introduce Mandatory Helmet Law For People On Bicycles - this is stupid
Exklusiv Einigung beim Mobilitätsgesetz: Senat will Autoverkehr in Berlin reduzieren und Lieferzonen schaffen [German] - Berlin wants to reduce parking and space for cars ... I believe it when I see it
Random Beagles
‘We did not stop’: How rescue groups saved 3,776 abused beagles - too cute!
Spain tops world’s best tourist villages ranking with three awards - avoid these for a while
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Full Episode | Netflix [YouTube] - he is just remarkable, and Letterman is pretty good too.
Our country of the year for 2022 can only be Ukraine - "For the heroism of its people, and for standing up to a bully"
LastPass Breach - if you are using LastPass, you might want to switch now.
Why 70% of Spain is Empty [YouTube] - history and hills
Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub [LWN] - it's not only Mastodon
The 50 best TV shows of 2022 - time for best-of lists!
Other Links
- A bit of a link traffic jam from Ben Crowder. It's probably best if you just subscribe to his blog.
