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. ...
Another week and too many links. But more importantly, today is the anniversary of the aggression against the Ukraine people. It threw me off-centre quite a bit last year, more than the pandemic and more than many things I can remember living through. I won’t forget until this is over and Ukraine free again. Ukraine Solidarity with Ukraine [Twitter] - Led by Donkeys still doing good work ...
In game screenshot from Zwift I highly recommend the article about the man following the UK coastline. I enjoyed the interview with Jason Warner too. Leadership #158 Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work [Podcast] Better to micromanage than be disengaged. - or maybe neither? Voices, Votes, and Vetos: Who Is Making the 100 Million Dollar Decisions? (with Jason Warner, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) [Podcast] - I like his pragmatic approach over processes. ...
This week I recommend the reviews of NoSQL and “Spotify Model”. It is good to look back at these hypes after a bit of time and learn from the good and the bad bits. Leadership Becoming a Genius Maker: Liz Wiseman’s Approach to Multiplying Your Team’s Potential (with Liz Wiseman, Author and CEO of The Wiseman Group) [Podcast] - many good ideas about enabling your team to do their best work … instead of you doing it. ...