Work

Catching up with my podcasts. The Heroko one was fun and so was the one about retrospectives. If you want to see something impossible, watch the making-of series by Danny McAskill. Leadership Radical Candor S4, Ep. 16: What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Crank Call From Kim) [Podcast] - goes off the topic a bit at the end :-) How Retrospectives, Public Channels, and Asynchronous Meetings Foster Inclusive & Culturally-Diverse Teams (with Alexandra Sunderland, Sr Engineering Manager at Fellow) [Podcast] - I am a big fan of retrospectives, even if you don’t do anything agile, do retrospectives ...

I was out for two weeks with holiday and then a Covid-19 episode. Today I enjoyed the long read about female British spies. Furthermore, some good articles about leadership and how Etsy is scaling. The whole remote work / return to the office discussion hasn’t been resolved either. Leadership Lessons from a 5x CTO: How to Retain Talent and Run Skip Level 1:1s Through Rapid Growth (with Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer at CircleCI) [Podcast] - clearly this was before they let many people go, but still good insights ...

Another round of Mastodon links. The migration is still ongoing, and Twitter seems to be moving toward the abyss. I also enjoyed the $70k Android hack and the weird-old-book-finder. Mastodon bitbang.social - retrocomputing instance Mastodon Moment - Tim Bray on Mastodon Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”) - Mastodon might have a scaling problem ...

A mixed bag of goodies this week. Since Twitter might get even worse, I am now also publishing on Mastodon. Leadership Communication Models and How They Scale - “almost any model works for a group of <100” - I think the problem is that people cling to that for too long 3 big moments that can define your leadership career - start, choose, do ...

I forgot about the bottleneck series, the new part about Product v Engineering is nice. William Shatner’s reflections on space are also not what I expected. Leadership How Slack’s SVP Approaches Culture, Focuses on Outcomes, and Provides Flexibility (with Brian Elliott, Executive Leader of Future Forum and Senior Vice President) [Podcast] - Plenty of good ideas in here. I like the hybrid meeting moderator and surveying your teams. ...