For some fun, watch the “Best croissant in Paris” video. Less fun: Cory Doctorow about capitalism. Leadership Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. - I like the supported/tolerated/resented framework. Before your next offsite Interviewing engineering executives. - “Avoiding the unicorn search” Engineering How We Built a Multi-Task Canonical Ranker for Recommendations at Etsy - these are so hard to get right. ...
Dog sunbathing outside a kitchen window 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 Net Promoter Score – Helpful or Harmful? (part 1) - critical view of NPS ...
Wolf face I enjoyed the podcast about Rawls’ Theory of justice and the article about “BAU work”, which is really about much more. Leadership Go Beyond Fixing It: How the VP of Engineering at Box Approaches High-Stake Change (with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box) [Podcast] - different levels of leadership and focusing on goals What it takes to scale engineering [Podcast] - interesting insights in GitHub’s scaling How to tackle friction between product and engineering in scale-ups [Podcast] - I liked the articles, this is good too. ...
Two podcast suggestions for you today. Exposing rainforest carbon credits: why offsetting isn’t working, which is worrying but expected and Ukraine: Under the Counter, about people coming together to do help. Leadership 30-60 days in a new leadership role: run experiments for change - that seems early to me Internal comms for executives. - “Good communication is a series of habits” Five Ways Toward a Fairer, More Transparent Hiring Process - transparency and good communication is the key here. ...
“A collection of links on various topics, including overcoming disillusionment with the executive team, handling feedback, creating incentives for managers to grow, the pitfalls of using microservices, reflections on the state of Ruby and Rails, retaining high performing employees, closing a company for a week, transportation and urban planning in various cities around the world, tourism in Spain, a Netflix episode featuring David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the LastPass breach, and the rescue of abused beagles, as well as several collections of links on various topics.” ...