Like many things of 2022 my reading didn’t go to plan. It went different in a completely unexpected way. My initial plan was to read about 18 books, which is a bit more than I manage in a normal year. I wanted to read a mix of fiction and non-fiction, and planned to alternate between one of each. I had a queue already on Goodreads and was all set. ...
“A collection of links on various topics, including overcoming disillusionment with the executive team, handling feedback, creating incentives for managers to grow, the pitfalls of using microservices, reflections on the state of Ruby and Rails, retaining high performing employees, closing a company for a week, transportation and urban planning in various cities around the world, tourism in Spain, a Netflix episode featuring David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the LastPass breach, and the rescue of abused beagles, as well as several collections of links on various topics.” ...
Catching up with my podcasts. The Heroko one was fun and so was the one about retrospectives. If you want to see something impossible, watch the making-of series by Danny McAskill. Leadership Radical Candor S4, Ep. 16: What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Crank Call From Kim) [Podcast] - goes off the topic a bit at the end :-) How Retrospectives, Public Channels, and Asynchronous Meetings Foster Inclusive & Culturally-Diverse Teams (with Alexandra Sunderland, Sr Engineering Manager at Fellow) [Podcast] - I am a big fan of retrospectives, even if you don’t do anything agile, do retrospectives ...
I was out for two weeks with holiday and then a Covid-19 episode. Today I enjoyed the long read about female British spies. Furthermore, some good articles about leadership and how Etsy is scaling. The whole remote work / return to the office discussion hasn’t been resolved either. Leadership Lessons from a 5x CTO: How to Retain Talent and Run Skip Level 1:1s Through Rapid Growth (with Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer at CircleCI) [Podcast] - clearly this was before they let many people go, but still good insights ...
Colourful AI generated mastodon Another Mastodon week. Seems like another wave of users is migrating to Mastodon. I also looked into on-call … for reasons. And I enjoyed the old Barcelona videos and the article about the USE method. Mastodon How OSI got to Mastodon - good to see more institutions and organisations joining and creating their own instances. The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up) - the EFF chiming in … without creating their own instance. ...