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GitHub: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Searchhttps://githubengineering.com/towards-natural-language-semantic-code-search/ Introducing Experiments, an ongoing research effort from GitHub https://blog.github.com/2018-09-18-introducing-experiments-an-ongoing-research-effort-from-github/ Spotify: Scalable User Privacyhttps://labs.spotify.com/2018/09/18/scalable-user-privacy/ Slack-off Fridays: What Happened When One Team Experienced a Day Without Slackhttps://open.buffer.com/turn-off-slack-experiment/ Resource control at Facebook [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/764761/ JavaScript Equality Table Gamehttps://slikts.github.io/js-equality-game/ Guide: Set goals with OKRshttps://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/steps/introduction/ Bing starts serving AMP pages as Google prepares to reduce its controlhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/bing-starts-serving-amp-pages-as-google-prepares-to-reduce-its-control/ New – Parallel Query for Amazon Aurorahttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-parallel-query-for-amazon-aurora/

When I wrote the review of The Manager’s Path I started to think about other books I wish I had read earlier. Usually these triggered some kind of change in how I approach my work or life. This list is definitely incomplete and I will add more to the goodreads list at the bottom of this post. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck I still remember when and where I read this for the first time. It was on a plane from the US OSCON back to London where I had my start-up. ...

Time management: the leadership meta-problem.https://lethain.com/time-management/ Advice for a new executivehttps://larahogan.me/blog/advice-for-new-executive/ The Second Edition of “Refactoring”https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-ed.html#most-people-will-be-disappointed-by-the-second-edition https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-changes.html Use channels, not direct messages - 9 tipshttps://blog.arkency.com/use-channels-not-direct-messages/ Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design.”https://lethain.com/notes-philosophy-software-design/ Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontendhttps://githubengineering.com/removing-jquery-from-github-frontend/ Why We Prioritize Reading at Buffer and the 19 Most-Read Books From Our Teamhttps://open.buffer.com/prioritize-reading/ The 5 Whys Process We Use to Understand the Root of Any Problemhttps://open.buffer.com/5-whys-process/ CI and the Change Loghttp://www.davefarley.net/?p=263 PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/764515/ ...

60 agile pros tell me what really matters in agile todayhttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/agile/ask-me-anything-agile Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linuxhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux/ Signalhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/08/signal/ Serverless Firsthttps://zef.me/serverless-first-d2117ecc12da James Mickens on the Current State of Computer Securityhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/james_mickens_o.html New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performancehttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t3-instances-burstable-cost-effective-performance/ The not-so-secret trick to cutting solo car commutes: Charge for parking by the day https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-not-so-secret-trick-to-cutting-solo-car-commutes-charge-for-parking-by-the-day/ Engineering Ladders at Meetuphttps://medium.com/making-meetup/engineering-ladders-at-meetup-caacbea4916e Questions for our first 1:1https://larahogan.me/blog/first-one-on-one-questions/ Sharing Our Engineering Ladder http://dresscode.renttherunway.com/blog/ladder Liz Fong-Jones - Adopting SRE and Error Budgetshttps://youtu.be/7VeU6LnOUms ...

Original is here: https://github.com/christofdamian/manager-readme#manager-readme Update December 2020: I decided to make the repository private for now. I have some doubt if a manager README makes sense and mine was also not up to date. I might pick this up again in the future. Manager README? A few people (not only managers) now share information in a README or how-to style document on the web. The first one I came across was How to Rands. I thought it is a good idea for new team members, but also for people in the company who don’t have constant contact with me. ...