Friday Links 25-17

Friday Links 25-17

TI 99/4A home computer original box for European market This week I enjoyed the post about dealing with abandoned EV charger hardware and of course, the video about the TI 99/4A. Leadership Nobody Wins at Calendar Tetris - busy doesn’t mean productive Tech debt isn’t an ‘IT issue.’ It’s a business strategy - yep. The Management Skill Nobody Talks About - how to fail good. Engineering Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI - lots of them are popping up now. It is a good intro to the tools and libraries. ...

August 29, 2025 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 25-16

Friday Links 25-16

The band Kraftwerk on stage Lots of good stuff again this week. I recommend listening to the history of TrainingPeaks and coding in the red-queen area. Leadership Using postmortems to break out of infinite loops | Adnan Karač | LDX3 London 2025 [YouTube] - a quick talking about how to make them useful. Team OKRs in Action - they have to be co-created, not top down. Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions? - tradition. I last worked with linked lists in C on the Amiga. ...

August 22, 2025 · 5 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 25-15

Friday Links 25-15

I liked the work bringing Doom to the Amiga, without actually using Amiga code. And I learned some new things about the history of Civility in the BBC podcast. Leadership How We Encourage Self-Improvement at Buffer - $1000 is nice, it is more than in many organisations. I don’t think it is enough. TBM 370: Dependencies Aren’t Your Problem - “Shift the goal from managing dependencies, to focusing on the throughput of potentially value-creating activities” ...

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 25-14

Friday Links 25-14

These are too many links. I was on holiday … twice. I could stagger these, but there will be more next week. There are still many good things here. Too many. I am sorry. Leadership How We Plan Retreats, After Hosting 14 over 12+ Years (+ Get Our Retreat Planning Playbook!) - important for fully remote companies, and I didn’t often see this done right ...

August 1, 2025 · 6 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 25-13

Friday Links 25-13

Too many random links this week. The interview with the creator of Praise You (sampled by Fatboy Slim) is pretty good, what a strong woman. If you need some inspiration to get on a bike, watch the video about riding 2500 km in London. Leadership Expert Generalists - “But we’ve found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties.” ...

July 4, 2025 · 4 min · Christof Damian