New Year’s Resolution: limit the number of links in these posts. Catching up with everything since before Christmas. So much good stuff from BBC podcasts and The Guardian this time around. Leadership The Kool-Aid Factory - super useful and pretty site with play books about building teams and companies Embracing Change and Mimicking Chaos: Why Leaders Need to Cringe Fast and Early (with Hamza Kahn) [Podcast] - another great episode ...

I am pretty sure I said something along the lines of “2021 has to be better than 2020” a year ago. It certainly was different than 2020. And for 2022 I am going to predict it will be different again. I am not going to try even harder. Zoo The main thing that changed this year is what I now lovingly refer to as The Zoo. ...

As with many things 2021 didn’t quite go to plan with my reading. There were too many distractions in the first half of the year, but I got some reading time in the second half. The lack of holidays, flying and commuting didn’t really help overall. As always this is a mix of light fiction and books related to work, which this year mostly means management. ...

I enjoyed the in depth look into Pablo Escobar’s hippos. Amazing what kind of wide ranging effect this has on the country. The whole Log4j incident was also fun to follow. Management How To Start A Book Club At Work - beginners guide Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team - lots of insights from different leaders and companies Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations - because of changes ...

Short one this week. I did catch up with my podcasts, but not many made it to the list. I found the article series on architecture and devops interesting reads. Management Operator’s Manual #2: What Does It Mean To Let Others Lead? - with Ali Schultz & Jerry Colonna [Podcast] - “The simplest way to trust is to let go of perfection. If you can allow the team to make mistakes then it’s a lot easier to trust.” ...