A few articles about writing stuff down this week. I love the long read about NTP and the podcast about 1984. Leadership Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice - I am not good at writing long documents, but I like the idea and even one-pagers would be already an improvement to most processes ...
Podcast edition! I love the Björk: Sonic Symbolism podcast. It brings back so many memories from my time in London. The Happiness Lab (in random) and leadership podcasts are also great. Leadership Ep - 12 - How do I grow a culture of empowerment? feat. Meri Williams (ex-CTO Monzo, MOO, Healx) [Podcast] - first part of the interview which I really liked. ...
Many topics this week. I love the hack of a stolen laptop, the post of cascading goals made me think, good climate news cheered me up and check out random for some fun and funny stuff. Leadership Setting your engineers up for success: how Skyscanner created greater clarity in our competencies and pathways to progression - interesting approach, kind of similar to my favourite one from Etsy TBM 41/51: Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead) - interesting. I always thought top down, cascading goals were a good thing. I have to think about this more. ...
AI art: lady in front of cityscape Two week of links again. Will’s post about hiring quality was fascinating. And I learned about Sturgeon’s Bias, which I have to remember for the future. Leadership One-on-ones with executives. - cool advice from Will Larson about ad-hoc 1:1s with executives Is Engineering Management Bullshit? - no Sturgeon’s Biases - TIL: “Ninety percent of everything is crud.” Eight Traps to Avoid When You Take Over a Team - a bit late, but thanks ...
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Culture AMP’s data and the one with Daniel Pink about regret. I am still browsing the Gallup State of Workplace survey, it is a lot of data. Leadership Build Week at Buffer: What It Is and How We’re Approaching It - we used to call that just hack week. Build week is definitely more inclusive. ...