I forgot to post Podcasts for a while. This makes this week Podcast Week! Leadership Follow the Leader: How to Be the Example and Transform Engineering Teams (with Jossie Haines, Executive Coach) [Podcast] - I like her focus on respect and empathy. Wisdom for Work #16 - The Brightest Bulb Challenge: Moving From Individual Contributor to Team Leader [Podcast] - a common problem and I always enjoy the Reboot approach. ...
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.” ...
The podcasts about the creator of LZ4 and the one about happiness science were interesting and entertaining. Leadership We Pay Out Unused Sabbaticals When Someone Leaves Buffer, Here’s Why - interesting choice. With or without shared-component team - I don’t really like specialised teams in general Engineering Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator [Podcast] - from the creator of LZ4 and ZStandard ...
For some fun, watch the “Best croissant in Paris” video. Less fun: Cory Doctorow about capitalism. Leadership Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. - I like the supported/tolerated/resented framework. Before your next offsite Interviewing engineering executives. - “Avoiding the unicorn search” Engineering How We Built a Multi-Task Canonical Ranker for Recommendations at Etsy - these are so hard to get right. ...
Many videos about urbanism from the last two weeks. The articles from LinkedIn about measuring developer productivity and happiness and the one about slack by Marting Fowler are also great. This week we also have a short “Music” section. Leadership thedecider.app - a simple tool to choose a decision process … mostly useful for the overview of processes. Inside Look: Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn - both difficult to measure, this is one approach. ...