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Two weeks of links. Sorry. I have been thinking and catching up with my leadership reading, especially around the first team concept. The flatground skateboard video is worth a watch, and the Ziggy Stardust podcast is great too. Leadership First Team Mindset - The concept from the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” I have been looking into this again over the recent weeks, here is a collection of resources. I have a better idea about what this means as a director compared to a CTO now. ...

I have a new job. You can expect more about hiring and communication here in the coming weeks. My weird hobby topics will continue. Leadership Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot - Code as Craft is back and it is good. I really liked this one. Pivots are tricky, the ground shifts below you. Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better - nothing really news, but using surveys and data to figure out developer happiness ...

I skipped last week because I was on the bicycle. Sorry about the length today and the many podcasts. I had a lot of listening time. Leadership TBM 22/52: The Perfect Manager/Leader - “I see people putting themselves under so much pressure to be the perfect manager or leader.” Radical Candor S4. Ep 7: Radically Candid Conversations — Kim Scott & Russ Laraway [Podcast] - this was a good episode of that podcast. I like that he doesn’t care about the difference between leadership and management any more :-) ...

This week I loved the article about the Single Threaded Owner. Or if you want something to listen to: The Sistine Chapel discussed at In Our Time. Leadership Your migration probably isn’t failing due to insufficient staffing. - there are so many things to go wrong that I question the wisdom of doing them at all. Dan Coyle can fix your culture [Podcast] - I quite like the book, this is good too ...

The paper about traffic safety messages is very surprising and interesting. If you don’t measure your change you might make the wrong assumptions. Leadership Visualizing Team Dependencies with a Team API - aka team agreement Founding Uber SRE. - I am pretty sure he is too modest. Interesting that hiring was so fast back then. Episode #4: Nothing In Nothing Out - I never seen a good use of Jira for metrics, maybe something to aim for at $NEXTJOB ...