Friday Links 24-20

Friday Links 24-20

Vintage Atari ad: One word for these prices: Rip-off This week I have been enjoying the audio archive of The Famous Computer Cafe, a radio show from the eighties with many famous guests of the home computer area. There are definitely some parallels to the present. The X Windows history is also great. Today’s post does contain plenty of throwbacks. Leadership TBM 297: Staying In Touch - keeping track of things helps, people forget, and we can’t see trends ...

5 July 2024 · 3 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 24-19

Friday Links 24-19

_-_edited,_without_background.jpg “Boombox”)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwAXeqzaShdGJMHZGjJpoOhjqwFEldWTr7usUw9I1vTerYOvZsOsgpuFLuz1sp-wxPMrLQT4Hk3QBFOtHgvhvuPeAFD4Q7rSayzfWX7-RJQQdnvt9GA-nvzxGIKkWxwgL_9cVODhXhMakGANUHKGItxmpEgImruu0tQAdUnJzeGexeXsPPGRYZw/s4676/Philips_D8444_stereo_radio_recorder_(boombox,_ghettoblaster)_-_edited,_without_background.jpg) Clearing up my backlog again! A lot of fun stuff in the random section. I did enjoy the podcast about getting or not getting into Berghain, and the one about the Stereophonic play. The ongoing research into the XZ backdoor also continues to be interesting. Leadership Seven Conversation Hacks - some of this is harder, when working remote. The route to better culture? Better managers - mostly quoting research. ...

28 June 2024 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 24-18

Friday Links 24-18

I really love the photograph series in the random section, it is a great concept. The videos about the busiest train station and buying a train are also great … if you like trains. Leadership Beyond ‘Sorry’: How to Apologize and Mean It 6 | 22 [Podcast] - most apologies are just deflections. TBM 293: Where More Effective Product Teams Spend More (and Less) Time - “Navigating proxies” - good collection! ...

14 June 2024 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 24-17

Friday Links 24-17

Book cover: Commodore Amiga a visual Commpendium The leadership antipatterns are quite good, so is the video about a new development in Amsterdam. Leadership Product Coaching with Petra Wille [Podcast] - coaching not agile coaches. Briefly: Anonymous Questions - how to set up Q&As as a leader Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta - #3 being a shit-umbrella Engineering What to Know Before You Implement Public-Facing APIs - I still think versioning APIs is overrated. ...

7 June 2024 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 24-16

Friday Links 24-16

This week, the “City in A Bottle” JavaScript demo blew me away. The podcasts in the leadership section are also pretty good. Leadership Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling, on Embracing Rapid Iteration and Setting Goals for Accountability [Podcast] - interesting ideas about project management and also insights into our competition. A company is not a family with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky [Podcast] - I didn’t know the origin of the name! I also think that overcommunication is a good thing. I am working on that. ...

31 May 2024 · 2 min · Christof Damian