Happy new year! New year, new links! I am not going to take a break just because I am on funemployment at the moment. This week I loved the article about measuring engineering organisations and the podcast about Bauhaus. LeadershipMeasuring an engineering organization. - everything you need to start thinking about your metrics as engineering leader ...
"A collection of links on various topics, including overcoming disillusionment with the executive team, handling feedback, creating incentives for managers to grow, the pitfalls of using microservices, reflections on the state of Ruby and Rails, retaining high performing employees, closing a company for a week, transportation and urban planning in various cities around the world, tourism in Spain, a Netflix episode featuring David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the LastPass breach, and the rescue of abused beagles, as well as several collections of links on various topics." ...
Catching up with my podcasts. The Heroko one was fun and so was the one about retrospectives. If you want to see something impossible, watch the making-of series by Danny McAskill. Leadership Radical Candor S4, Ep. 16: What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Crank Call From Kim) [Podcast] - goes off the topic a bit at the end :-) ...
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. ...
Another Mastodon week. Seems like another wave of users is migrating to Mastodon. I also looked into on-call ... for reasons. And I enjoyed the old Barcelona videos and the article about the USE method. MastodonHow OSI got to Mastodon - good to see more institutions and organisations joining and creating their own instances. ...