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Two great long reads this week: “The Case Against Travel” and “How to reduce the damage done by gentrification” Leadership Platform Engineering Hype - I am not a big fan of these kinds of teams either. Maybe there is a scale where it makes sense, but not for most of the companies. climbing the leadership ladder: from manager to director to VP - interesting perspective about managing in different directions and “If the things that you love are communicating, unblocking, and coaching, you must do more of that at higher levels.” ...

Group of professional cyclists passing on top of a climb in Barcelona The last two weeks I enjoyed the interview with S.A. Cosby (and his book) and the story about the right-wing looney on ecstasy. Leadership Honor the Past, Present, and People: Creating and Managing Positive Change (with Esther Derby, Consultant) [Podcast] - “See the role of the middle manager as connecting the contextual knowledge from the top of the organization with the day-to-day operations at the bottom.” ...

I am skipping every second week currently, with the result that today is a bit long. I loved the podcast about the U-Cycle initiative in Ukraine and one about the climate-grandmas in Switzerland. Leadership Measuring Success & Performance of Managers - A Deep Dive [Podcast] - measuring individual contributors is already hard, measuring managers even more so. Admiral Linda Fagan on servant leadership [Podcast] - I usually skip military leadership lessons, this is great, though. ...

This week I enjoyed the tiny C compiler post and quite a bit of good news about the environment. Work Apply, Network, Repeat - “Skip the cover letter” I Tried a Secret Google Project! [YouTube] - that looks like a pretty amazing and probably expensive way to do video calls. I also have no idea how this would help in group calls. Rust-out is the workplace phenomenon making us all feel flat - just call it burn-out because that’s what it is. ...

Clearly, work hasn’t been on my mind this week. The podcast about the future of work is a nice crossover between work and urbanism. The drought in Spain is still depressing and has been going through all the news. Environment Barcelona’s beaches could vanish as authorities abandon ‘enhancement’ - that would change Barcelona quite a bit. Still dry Unprecedented €2.2bn drought response plan approved in Spain Drone footage shows Spanish reservoirs dry amid hottest April on record – video Drought spells ‘catastrophe’ for Spain’s olive harvest Fruit growers arrested for using illegal wells in drought-hit Spain Drought prompts French ban on garden swimming pools Urbanism Why are 15-minute cities so unpopular? [Podcast] - because people don’t understand them and hate change. ...