This week I enjoyed the podcast about Venezuela, the blog post about asking, and the one from Lara Hogan about employees getting stuck.

Leadership

How can we make asking easier? - if you want public question, you have to make it safe, otherwise accept private ones.

Creating momentum when an employee is stuck - this was more helpful than I expected :-)

I’m Going to Dig a Hole - sometimes you have to let people do stupid things.

Engineering

Story: Inside Early Google - Race Conditions, Java Pain, and the Birth of AdWords [Podcast] - Google war stories!

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? - I am sure we do a bit.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering - that’s some pretty neat shit.

GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode - nice, I like the idea of OpenCode.

Environment

In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels - and keeps growing.

Urbanism

The Netherlands: 10 new cities? [Podcast] - that does sound less than sure.

How can a NEW Transit Line be THIS BAD!? (Finch West LRT) [YouTube] - slow and bad!

Random Tools

A life of bikes with Calvin Jones [Podcast] - Legend!

Margaret Atwood, writer [Podcast] - I like her down to earth way of talking.

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1) [Podcast] - I have to confess, I didn’t know much of this.

Job Title Maxxing - fun to play with for a bit