cocaine hippos I enjoyed the in depth look into Pablo Escobar's hippos. Amazing what kind of wide ranging effect this has on the country. The whole Log4j incident was also fun to follow. ManagementHow To Start A Book Club At Work - beginners guide Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team - lots of insights from different leaders and companies ...
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Calypso I am a bit disillusioned with our response to the climate crisis and the pandemic. So I am focusing on other things like management, nostalgia and urbanism! ManagementAgility ≠ Speed - common misunderstanding well explained My experience with Re-organising a team - some good tips to keep in mind for the next time ...
Dakou Tapes The Great Resignation has definitely arrived in mainstream media. Lots of good podcasts this time, about career paths, engineering organisations, learning and weird Chinese cassette tape culture. ManagementManaging Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering? [Podcast] - interview with Camille Fournier going into details of platform teams ...
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 :-) ...