AI generated art of modern, but run down office building Quiet week. The team assessment repository has a lot in it and I just started looking through it. Interesting papers about urbanism, but maybe I just say that because it confirms my bias. Leadership Multi-team Software Delivery Assessment - nice collection of useful team assessments, everything from team health, to delivery and security Imposter Syndrome [Comic] – it’s me Benefits of Pulse Surveys for Remote and Distributed Teams - a bit spammy. I used to be highly sceptical, but now I am a convert. If done right and with the right communication, these can be super helpful for all teams. ...

This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Culture AMP’s data and the one with Daniel Pink about regret. I am still browsing the Gallup State of Workplace survey, it is a lot of data. Leadership Build Week at Buffer: What It Is and How We’re Approaching It - we used to call that just hack week. Build week is definitely more inclusive. ...

Two weeks worth of links. This time with a comics extra instead of leadership links. Lots of good environment and urbanism articles. And the most surprising podcast about how rescuing people from cars is changing. Engineering A Deep Dive into Memory Leaks in Ruby - part 2 CPAN - This Day In History [Podcast] - when I switched from Perl to PHP, CPAN was what I was missing the most Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2022 - also available as raw data! ...

Some good long reads today: The classic “Give Away Your Legos”, how to slowly kill your org, Why Spotify Squads are a Failure and Bicycle Graveyards. A few podcasts, the one about agile is definitely worth it. Leadership ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups - classic article 190 Brilliant Examples of Company Values - so many values, so similar. The ones from Build-A-Bear a fun. ...

Most of the current electric cars are either very fast, very fancy or very cute. Ours definitely isn’t any of these. We would have loved to get a cute small one like the Honda-e. We certainly didn’t want an SUV. There are some electric dream cars out there, like the Rivian R1S, but this isn’t available yet and also out of our price range. Because of our large collection of dogs, we needed something with enough space for them. Ideally something robust and easy to clean as the dogs are currently nibbling at everything they get their hands on. ...