Leadership
Why Your Meetings Suck (And How to Fix Them): Insights from Dr. Steven Rogelberg 6 | 37 [Podcast] - focusing on 1:1 meetings
Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time [Podcast] - the use case is improving developer experience tools and not measuring developers.
TBM 318: Why Orgs Become Too Tall - again a good overview from John about the causes, some of them are difficult to work around.
Eng org seniority-mix model. - if you want to reduce spending on senior engineers, you have to reduce hiring them, but also reduce promoting into that level.
Urbanism and Transit
Jaywalking is now legal in New York City - the rest of the world: "what?"
Forget tainted candy: The scariest thing on Halloween is parked in your driveway - "But the biggest reason may be that American streets and cities are designed for cars, and not people."
Crossing the USA by train - did I post this already? It's great anyway, and makes me want to travel large distances by train.
How Many Hydrogen Transit Trial Failures Are Enough? - people are still clinging to this fuel.
Stuttgart 21: Europe’s Most Controversial Rail Project | DW News [YouTube] - that does look a bit overdesigned, but it will be great once it arrives.
Random Lawns
Lawns: Is yours giving sun king or pink flamingo? [Podcast] - blame the French!
When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? - great project, and now I am curious when it will happen.
Clothes Line Animals Series - pretty art.
The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker
"Another clever sales technique was to get electricity companies to serve as Toshiba distributors. At the time, Japan was facing a national power surplus stemming from the widespread replacement of carbon-filament lightbulbs with more efficient tungsten ones." - maybe we see more things switch to electric when energy prices will go down in the future
The Unfettered Selfishness of Digital Nomads - "I think the least we can ask of these people is that they spare us all the self-serving posture of enlightenment."