Scrabble tilesSome long reads this week. The one about longtermism and "Great Attrition" are very interesting. Management Ratings as Incentives - I once worked at a place doing the 1-5 ratings, with additional rules that acted as weird incentives. I liked the idea, but it failed in reality. Experimenting with Focus Weeks and Mob Programming - I still haven't tried mob programming, but then I never got into pair programming either ...
Lego Compact Cassette Catching up and dreaming of a four day work week. ManagementThe Sabotage List - nice idea to collect the stuff you are probably not going to do for reasons Always do Extra - if you have slack, do extra, not more of the same How to Understand the Power Structure [Comic] - funny :-) ...
stairway to nowhere Too many articles about management today! I got pulled into a rabbit hole about Thomasson Hyperart this week, which was fun. ManagementThe Skill of Org Design - great long read about organisation design How to safely think in systems - "When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right" ...
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ZX81 and Michael K WilliamsSad news about Michael K. Williams and Sir Clive Sinclair passing away. People who influenced me in quite different but profound ways. Of course you also get the my usual link dump, again from the last two weeks. Environment news are frustrating as always and I don't think COP26 is going to cheer me up. ...