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I have a new job. You can expect more about hiring and communication here in the coming weeks. My weird hobby topics will continue. Leadership Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot - Code as Craft is back and it is good. I really liked this one. Pivots are tricky, the ground shifts below you. Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better - nothing really news, but using surveys and data to figure out developer happiness ...

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. ...

Short and quiet week. I liked the refresher on engineering directors and 1:1s. Leadership Mailbag: Resources for Engineering Directors. - helpful summary of previous articles and book pointers Episode #2: The First Taste of Metrics - continuation of the metrics blog post series One on One Meetings: The Only Guide Managers Need - I get more and more annoyed by the Lighthouse posts, but this one is a good overview ...

Catching up with podcast. The ones about Coaching Habit, Brian Kernighan and The Pedestrian are very good. Leadership Tackling bottlenecks at scale-ups [Podcast] - Podcast with a summary of the idea behind the content I shared recently. How To Do Less - about hard prioritization “First, you need to lower everybody’s expectations, ASAP.” Why greater autonomy is the future of software development - release of the Atlassian State of the Developer Report [PDF] ...