Small selection today. Some good reads, about the job market, corporate job, and a good podcasts about teams & AI. Leadership Organizational design and Team Topologies after AI [Podcast] - a much more balanced view on the changes AI brings to teams MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing - a bit older article AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies - this is more interesting, maybe theory is hitting reality now ...
The band Kraftwerk on stage Lots of good stuff again this week. I recommend listening to the history of TrainingPeaks and coding in the red-queen area. Leadership Using postmortems to break out of infinite loops | Adnan Karač | LDX3 London 2025 [YouTube] - a quick talking about how to make them useful. Team OKRs in Action - they have to be co-created, not top down. Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions? - tradition. I last worked with linked lists in C on the Amiga. ...
These are too many links. I was on holiday … twice. I could stagger these, but there will be more next week. There are still many good things here. Too many. I am sorry. Leadership How We Plan Retreats, After Hosting 14 over 12+ Years (+ Get Our Retreat Planning Playbook!) - important for fully remote companies, and I didn’t often see this done right ...
Too many random links this week. The interview with the creator of Praise You (sampled by Fatboy Slim) is pretty good, what a strong woman. If you need some inspiration to get on a bike, watch the video about riding 2500 km in London. Leadership Expert Generalists - “But we’ve found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties.” ...
Today is apparently the Urbanism YouTube edition. I also really liked the podcast about Hindenburg, and the video about the bikepacking trip (in Germany, sadly). Engineering Annotation Mono v0.2 - a pretty new mono font Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy [LWN] - It is a pretty drastic move, and I wonder if anything will change after this. Setting Up MCP Servers in Claude Code: A Tech Ritual for the Quietly Desperate - I have to give some of these a go. ...