Two podcast recommendations today: the one about culture fit and the one about Escobar's hippos.
Leadership
The wrong way to think about culture fit [Podcast] - It is very hard to get this wrong. Similar as values. It is just to easy to abuse.
How Infrequent Retrospectives Reduce Learning Cycle Time and Make Everything Worse - retrospectives are still my favourite part of everything agile.
Using systems modeling to refine strategy.
Engineering
Martin Fowler Reflects on Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code [Podcast] - another good episode. I would argue that the book could have been a handful of blog posts. If you exclude the reference.
Build Your Own Radar: Using the Technology Radar as a governance tool [Podcast] - I think thise makes sense for every reasonably sized engineering team.
Your Security Plan - simplified way to think about your security.
Migrating in-place from PostgreSQL to MySQL - pretty cool.
Demystifying The Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime - what?
Environment
It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it - change is possible if we don't get stuck on the old way of doing things.
2024 'virtually certain' to be warmest year on record, scientists say - I think this has been confirmed by now?
‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions - thank you rich people!
EU emissions fall by 8% in steep reduction reminiscent of Covid shutdown - some good news.
Urbanism & Cycling
The cyclists tracking down their own stolen bikes - this is probably a bad idea in most cases.
Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after Spain's Valencia floods
100,000 Chinese students join 50km night-time bike ride in search of good soup dumplings - now I want those dumplings.
Pedestrian-friendly cities have lower rates of diabetes and obesity - not surprising.
Launching a new guide for taking bicycles on trains - very basic at the moment
Central Paris To Limit Through Motor Traffic From Next Week - How long will it take until Paris makes it to the top of the Copenhagenize list?
Random Hippos
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos? [Podcast] - possibly my favourite invasive species?
Bland, soggy slop or scratch-cooked chilli and pancakes? The best and worst hospital food around the world – in pictures - they all looks good? I would go for the Taiwanese one.
