Friday Links 23-04

Friday Links 23-04

Two podcast suggestions for you today. Exposing rainforest carbon credits: why offsetting isn’t working, which is worrying but expected and Ukraine: Under the Counter, about people coming together to do help. Leadership 30-60 days in a new leadership role: run experiments for change - that seems early to me Internal comms for executives. - “Good communication is a series of habits” Five Ways Toward a Fairer, More Transparent Hiring Process - transparency and good communication is the key here. ...

27 January 2023 · 3 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-03

Friday Links 23-03

I enjoyed the podcast about the seven habits book (which I haven’t finished so far) and the post about meetings for engineering organisations. A lot of good content in the urbanism section this week. The videos about cycling made me miss snow a bit. Leadership Starting the year with 7 Habits [Podcast] - since I haven’t made it through the book, this was a nice summary ...

20 January 2023 · 3 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-02

Friday Links 23-02

I have nearly caught up with my podcast backlog! This week’s post is short nonetheless. I enjoyed the podcast about daily scrum meetings and if you can read German, I also recommend the article about digital nomads. Leadership Ep - 20 - What’s wrong with the software engineering industry? feat. Nick Rogers (VP of Engineering at Wagestream) [Podcast] - interesting chat How to Run Successful Daily Scrum Meetings [Podcast] - many things I agree with, especially: doing daily meetings in Slack is not worth it ...

13 January 2023 · 3 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 23-01

Friday Links 23-01

Happy new year! New year, new links! I am not going to take a break just because I am on funemployment at the moment. This week I loved the article about measuring engineering organisations and the podcast about Bauhaus. Leadership Measuring an engineering organization. - everything you need to start thinking about your metrics as engineering leader ...

6 January 2023 · 3 min · Christof Damian
2022 in Books

2022 in Books

Like many things of 2022 my reading didn’t go to plan. It went different in a completely unexpected way. My initial plan was to read about 18 books, which is a bit more than I manage in a normal year. I wanted to read a mix of fiction and non-fiction, and planned to alternate between one of each. I had a queue already on Goodreads and was all set. ...

3 January 2023 · 10 min · Christof Damian