Environment

Two podcast suggestions for you today. Exposing rainforest carbon credits: why offsetting isn’t working, which is worrying but expected and Ukraine: Under the Counter, about people coming together to do help. Leadership 30-60 days in a new leadership role: run experiments for change - that seems early to me Internal comms for executives. - “Good communication is a series of habits” Five Ways Toward a Fairer, More Transparent Hiring Process - transparency and good communication is the key here. ...

I was out for two weeks with holiday and then a Covid-19 episode. Today I enjoyed the long read about female British spies. Furthermore, some good articles about leadership and how Etsy is scaling. The whole remote work / return to the office discussion hasn’t been resolved either. Leadership Lessons from a 5x CTO: How to Retain Talent and Run Skip Level 1:1s Through Rapid Growth (with Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer at CircleCI) [Podcast] - clearly this was before they let many people go, but still good insights ...

Another round of Mastodon links. The migration is still ongoing, and Twitter seems to be moving toward the abyss. I also enjoyed the $70k Android hack and the weird-old-book-finder. Mastodon bitbang.social - retrocomputing instance Mastodon Moment - Tim Bray on Mastodon Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”) - Mastodon might have a scaling problem ...

Since Twitter has been going downhill for a while and I am mostly leaving Facebook and Instagram, I have been searching for an alternative. Mastodon is the obvious candidate. I had created an account a while ago, and it offers an ad and algorithm free alternative. You can also take control by having your personal server. Below are some of the links I found helpful. ...

A mixed bag of goodies this week. Since Twitter might get even worse, I am now also publishing on Mastodon. Leadership Communication Models and How They Scale - “almost any model works for a group of <100” - I think the problem is that people cling to that for too long 3 big moments that can define your leadership career - start, choose, do ...