2020 was a bit unexpected to say the least. Here is a quick review from my perspective. This is the second year we are living in the countryside and hour from Barcelona and over the year it turned out to have been a pretty good decision. January Pretty uneventful. I mostly cycled indoors and met the BRCG crew once for a longer ride. A storm hit Spain and led to a bit of damage on our house. ...
A bit of a catch-up issue of the Friday Links. Full of urbanism, randomness, a few of 2020 reviews and the usual engineering management. Relatively few podcast were released over the holidays. I managed to catch up with my back-log (for a while). Management What are our core values and practices for building software? - cool summary about Thoughtsworks engineering values. I think they probably apply to a lot of companies ...
You would think a global pandemic would be good for your reading habit. This doesn’t seem to be the case for me. I am not sure where the time I spent on commute went, but definitely not towards some good use. This list is kind of in order, but also grouped by author and series. Most of the books are easy airport reads, with thrillers and some sci-fi. ...
I can’t remember when I started to listen to podcasts. I am sure I was not an early adopter. It might have been around 2004 using iPodder on Linux with the first iPod and later an iPod Shuffle. Over the years I used various tools and devices to download podcasts and now have settled on Pocket Casts on Android. It has nice sync functionality between multiple devices and a useful web interface too. The web app is also useful to pull up the recently starred episodes for my Friday Links. ...
Last one before the holidays, where I am going to post some other things. A little bit on productivity today as I look into the Zettelkasten hype. Leadership How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too - I am personally just looking forward to the holiday. Shared vision on organization - I think this is one of the hardest things to get right ...