Friday

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 :-) How Retrospectives, Public Channels, and Asynchronous Meetings Foster Inclusive & Culturally-Diverse Teams (with Alexandra Sunderland, Sr Engineering Manager at Fellow) [Podcast] - I am a big fan of retrospectives, even if you don’t do anything agile, do retrospectives ...

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. Leadership Lessons from a 5x CTO: How to Retain Talent and Run Skip Level 1:1s Through Rapid Growth (with Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer at CircleCI) [Podcast] - clearly this was before they let many people go, but still good insights ...

Colourful AI generated mastodon 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. Mastodon How OSI got to Mastodon - good to see more institutions and organisations joining and creating their own instances. The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up) - the EFF chiming in … without creating their own instance. ...

Since Twitter has been going downhill for a while and I am mostly leaving Facebook and Instagram, I have been searching for an alternative. Mastodon is the obvious candidate. I had created an account a while ago, and it offers an ad and algorithm free alternative. You can also take control by having your personal server. Below are some of the links I found helpful. ...

A mixed bag of goodies this week. Since Twitter might get even worse, I am now also publishing on Mastodon. Leadership Communication Models and How They Scale - “almost any model works for a group of <100” - I think the problem is that people cling to that for too long 3 big moments that can define your leadership career - start, choose, do ...