I enjoyed the long read about Germany's flat-rate train tickets and the podcast about a British cult. LeadershipTWH#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. ...
Best croissant in Barcelona For some fun, watch the "Best croissant in Paris" video. Less fun: Cory Doctorow about capitalism. LeadershipBalancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. - I like the supported/tolerated/resented framework. Before your next offsite Interviewing engineering executives. - "Avoiding the unicorn search" ...
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. Leadershipthedecider.app - a simple tool to choose a decision process … mostly useful for the overview of processes. ...
Some nice urbanisation going on in Barcelona. I also enjoyed the podcast about scams and trust. LeadershipThe MarsBased Handbook - I love this kind of open handbook. It is silly that everybody has to invent them from scratch. EngineeringHow 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." ...
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 ...