Friday Links

Friday Links

2020 Game I have been catching up with my podcasts. The environment section is probably here to stay. It will be one of the things of 2021 when people get bored of the virus. Management TBM 2/52: Start by Counting Things - how to start with metrics TBM 3/52: Help Your Team Find Its Own Way - definitely worth looking into why these companies prefer six weeks. We tried it too and it wasn't a good fit at the time. ...

January 22, 2021 · 5 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links

Friday Links

Oriol Ferrer MesiàGood stuff on management and random stuff today. And a new section "Environment", which is just depressing. ManagementOptimize Your Time with The Balanced Calendar - good tips on creating free space or focused time Meeting Rooms Are Now Free - but meetings are still expensive Summarized – Tech and business books I read in 2020 - Daniel Bartholomae's book tips ...

January 15, 2021 · 4 min · Christof Damian

Post Holiday Friday Links

C64 Generator A bit of a catch-up issue of the Friday Links. Full of urbanism, randomness, a few of 2020 reviews and the usual engineering management. Relatively few podcast were released over the holidays. I managed to catch up with my back-log (for a while). Management What are our core values and practices for building software? - cool summary about Thoughtsworks engineering values. I think they probably apply to a lot of companies ...

January 8, 2021 · 6 min · Christof Damian

2020 in Books

goodreads books 2020 You would think a global pandemic would be good for your reading habit. This doesn't seem to be the case for me. I am not sure where the time I spent on commute went, but definitely not towards some good use. This list is kind of in order, but also grouped by author and series. ...

January 4, 2021 · 7 min · Christof Damian
Podcasts

Podcasts

I can't remember when I started to listen to podcasts. I am sure I was not an early adopter. It might have been around 2004 using iPodder on Linux with the first iPod and later an iPod Shuffle. Over the years I used various tools and devices to download podcasts and now have settled on Pocket Casts on Android. It has nice sync functionality between multiple devices and a useful web interface too. The web app is also useful to pull up the recently starred episodes for my Friday Links.I have a silly amount of subscriptions, the list below are the main ones which are still active and the ones I am still listen to regularly. ...

December 22, 2020 · 6 min · Christof Damian