Engineering

I am catching up with my reading and listening. Nothing about the war in Europe. It is to fresh and too frustrating. I don’t even want to think about it. Leadership TBM 8/52: The Data-Informed Product Cycle - “We (hopefully) start with a Strategy” You Won’t Have All the Answers: Why Being Intellectually Honest and Disassociating from Ideas Makes You a Better Leader (with Remi Guyot, Chief Product Officer at BlaBlaCar) [Podcast] - how to get into management and how to enable people ...

Focus on urbanism again, with a two video crossover about zoning. I also enjoyed the origin story of Kayak. Leadership TBM 6/52: Inputs First. Bets Next - nothing new: start with the vision The truth about management in Silicon Valley: It doesn’t exist - I don’t buy that, but still a good read KAYAK: Paul English [Podcast] - cool Kayak origin story ...

If you want to know more about web3, NFTs and crypto-currency mess, definitely watch the long YouTube video. There seems to be a lot of reviewing about agile ideas at the moment. Which is great, because that is what agile is about. Leadership TBM 4/52: An Actionable Post With Examples (Tree/Loop Prompts) - prompts to think about north stars, goals, decisions, … ...

Back to a reasonable number of links! I enjoyed the scaling teams podcast, which I found very pragmatic. For fun checkout the Wikipedia game and size of countries tool in the random section. Leadership TBM 3/52: That’s Not What They Are Hearing - communication is hard, being honest at work is hard, but we have to figure it out Saying “no” - one of the most important skill for everyone ...

New Year’s Resolution: limit the number of links in these posts. Catching up with everything since before Christmas. So much good stuff from BBC podcasts and The Guardian this time around. Leadership The Kool-Aid Factory - super useful and pretty site with play books about building teams and companies Embracing Change and Mimicking Chaos: Why Leaders Need to Cringe Fast and Early (with Hamza Kahn) [Podcast] - another great episode ...