Engineering

Two weeks of links. Sorry. I have been thinking and catching up with my leadership reading, especially around the first team concept. The flatground skateboard video is worth a watch, and the Ziggy Stardust podcast is great too. Leadership First Team Mindset - The concept from the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” I have been looking into this again over the recent weeks, here is a collection of resources. I have a better idea about what this means as a director compared to a CTO now. ...

A short one this week. Some fun technical reads on Meta’s cache invalidation and Linux pipes. Leadership Valuing experience [Podcast] - another great discussions by two coaches TBM 25/52: In Defense of Frameworks (and Process) - there are always frameworks and they make life easier and more predictable CTO Craft MiniCon - The Complete Hiring Arc (In Under 3 hours!) - Full event [YouTube] - recording of a recent hiring conference ...

Quick one today with a new Hiring section. The podcasts abut coaching and with the Meetup CEO are also pretty good. Leadership TBM 24/52: Your Head Hurts. But Why? - how to debug dissonance, very cool Leader As Coach - with Andy Crissinger & Chris VandenBrink [Podcast] - also highlighting the difference between coaching as a leader and a coach How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation [Podcast] - from the Meetup CEO ...

I skipped last week because I was on the bicycle. Sorry about the length today and the many podcasts. I had a lot of listening time. Leadership TBM 22/52: The Perfect Manager/Leader - “I see people putting themselves under so much pressure to be the perfect manager or leader.” Radical Candor S4. Ep 7: Radically Candid Conversations — Kim Scott & Russ Laraway [Podcast] - this was a good episode of that podcast. I like that he doesn’t care about the difference between leadership and management any more :-) ...

Bicycle in front of old stone village I am switching to more off-line reading in the coming weeks. I still got a few interesting bits this week. A lot of good summary posts this week. I like the principles and koans one for example. Leadership Job Ads to Hire Software Engineers: My Advice - nothing new here, but good to have it in one place When your coaching questions freak someone out - I never even considered that. Maybe I have been lucky so far. ...