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Two weeks of links and quite a few urbanism ones, mostly about the new Oxford Street. I recommend the podcast about the “fat bikes” ban in the Netherlands. The engineering articles about Coding Alone and small-change code reviews are very good too. Quote of the Week How does a manager motivate his subordinates? For most of us, the word implies doing something to another person. But I don’t think that can happen, because motivation has to come from within somebody. Accordingly, all a manager can do is create an environment in which motivated people can flourish. High Output Management Andrew S. Grove Leadership Interview with Eric Ries: AI, Founder Mode, and Why Good Companies Go Bad - “MVPs are still misunderstood, even after 15 years” - this won’t change, ever. ...

The trend is definitely going towards a smaller Engineering and a bigger AI section. I don’t like that. This week, have a look at John Cutler’s Feature Factory Retrospective and the No Man Is an Island post. If you want a podcast and like engineering, check out “Building resilient systems”. Quote of the Week And that’s the deciding factor. We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman Leadership TBM 445: The Feature Factory: A 10-Year Retrospective - “First, you ARE working in a feature factory. So you don’t need any signs.” ...

Good long reads this week: Camille Fournier on the manager’s path in the age of AI and how AI affects building things by Paulo André. Quote of the Week The first rule is that a measurement—any measurement—is better than none. High Output Management Andrew S. Grove Leadership If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? - it’s a business and happy means different things to different people. ...

A bit of a catch-up from recent weeks today. I recommend the two Book Overflow episodes about The Pragmatic Programmer and with Uncle Bob. The long post from Charity about Slop is also worth a read. Quote of the Week Another benefit of writing a test for every logged message is that it’s painful. Sometimes pain is a good thing. Agile Java™ Jeff Langr Leadership Managers Are Catalysts - “Your job, as a manager, is lowering that activation energy.” ...

I skipped a week again. Some good podcasts this week, have a listen to the ones about The Pragmatic Programmer and the one about performance. For some fun, play Snek and watch the relaxing visualisation of train movements. Quote of the Week You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig Leadership Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break - I can definitely relate. I would say that this doesn’t affect only leaders. ...