I enjoyed the long read about Germany’s flat-rate train tickets and the podcast about a British cult. Leadership TWH#56: Becoming a Startup VP Engineering - While I am looking for a position like that, it does mean something different for everybody. How We Handle Severance In Cases Of Mutual Separation - interesting concept. Environment German police call for crackdown on growing climate protests - “preventive detention and longer prison terms” ...
Many videos about urbanism from the last two weeks. The articles from LinkedIn about measuring developer productivity and happiness and the one about slack by Marting Fowler are also great. This week we also have a short “Music” section. Leadership thedecider.app - a simple tool to choose a decision process … mostly useful for the overview of processes. Inside Look: Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn - both difficult to measure, this is one approach. ...
Some nice urbanisation going on in Barcelona. I also enjoyed the podcast about scams and trust. Leadership The MarsBased Handbook - I love this kind of open handbook. It is silly that everybody has to invent them from scratch. Engineering How LinkedIn automates cherry-picking commits to improve developer productivity - “While most repositories (e.g., web services) practice continuous delivery solely from trunk (or main branch), those (e.g., core libraries) that need to stabilize their release or release on a fixed schedule use release branches.” ...
Dog sunbathing outside a kitchen window Lots of urbanism links, but apart from that, I can recommend the “The Pillars of Integrity” podcast episode and the (German) story about a dog “Bambam”. Leadership #161 Jim Dethmer: The Pillars of Integrity [Podcast] - this was a great episode, not only about the pillars, but the rest of the chat too Net Promoter Score – Helpful or Harmful? (part 1) - critical view of NPS ...
Short one today! I enjoyed the conversation about “Brains, hormones, and time” with Dunbar. If you haven’t subscribed to “The War on Cars” yet, this 100th episode might be a good start. Leadership The Backbone of a Successful Team: 1:1s, Skip Levels, and the Delegation Framework (with Spencer Norman, VP of Engineering at Privy) [Podcast] - there is a lot in this. I don’t agree with all of it. ...