Friday Links

Two weeks of links. Sorry. I have been thinking and catching up with my leadership reading, especially around the first team concept. The flatground skateboard video is worth a watch, and the Ziggy Stardust podcast is great too. Leadership First Team Mindset - The concept from the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” I have been looking into this again over the recent weeks, here is a collection of resources. I have a better idea about what this means as a director compared to a CTO now. ...

Acid House flyer with smiley illustration For some reason I have no urbanism topics or podcasts! Dave Kellogg brings an interesting perspective on leadership levels. It is an old article but still valid. He seems to be going against the stream in general. Worth a follow! Leadership Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP - interesting perspective I agree on What we learned in studying the most effective founders - mostly as expected, but this is interesting: “While most people would expect self-confidence to grow with time, our data suggests the most effective founders are not nearly as confident as the least effective founders are.” ...

A short one this week. Some fun technical reads on Meta’s cache invalidation and Linux pipes. Leadership Valuing experience [Podcast] - another great discussions by two coaches TBM 25/52: In Defense of Frameworks (and Process) - there are always frameworks and they make life easier and more predictable CTO Craft MiniCon - The Complete Hiring Arc (In Under 3 hours!) - Full event [YouTube] - recording of a recent hiring conference ...

Quick one today with a new Hiring section. The podcasts abut coaching and with the Meetup CEO are also pretty good. Leadership TBM 24/52: Your Head Hurts. But Why? - how to debug dissonance, very cool Leader As Coach - with Andy Crissinger & Chris VandenBrink [Podcast] - also highlighting the difference between coaching as a leader and a coach How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation [Podcast] - from the Meetup CEO ...

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 ...