My YouTube links got lost because of my new workflow. It is working now. This week I enjoyed the Podcast about copyright and the video about cycling couriers in Seoul. Leadership The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail - long read about demand. Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend - your manager should be thinking about the company and the team, then the individuals. ...
This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea. OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in railways all over the world. Engineering The Work of Building for Other Engineers: Platform & SRE Mindset Anatomy of a Recruitment Phish - the things jobseekers have to deal with nowadays. Environment Climate action literacy interventions increase commitments to more effective mitigation behaviors [Paper] - people don’t know which individual actions are useful. I should get rid of my pets. ...
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-) ...
A very random collection this week, with some prepping research. The Life-Sized City report from Berlin is pretty cool, so is the one about building a simple game in different engines, I also liked the post about microservices. Engineering Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford - very long read about the pitfalls and some advantages of microservices. Formally verified cloud-scale authorization [Paper] - fascinating. Maybe only do that if you have a billion calls a second. ...
Many podcasts this week. I really loved the one with Cyndi Lauper. I did enjoy the one with Kent Beck and basically all the engineering and leadership ones. Leadership Kent Beck on why software development is an exercise in human relationships [Podcast] - great interview with Kent, he is so humble and down to earth. Meaning: why showing work matters has such an impact [Podcast] - interesting discussion round. ...