Reading
What I’m reading — a list of articles, blog posts, twitter threads, and everything in-between. Is this recommended reading or a bookmarks list? You decide.
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www.fastcompany.com
The ‘How might we’ design prompt is insidious, and it’s time to bury it.
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codesubmit.io
Onboarding new hires requires taking their perspective into account and designing the best possible experience to get your new teammate assimilated and contributing as quickly as possible.
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www.linkedin.com
Does this sound familiar? Your team members so badly want to take work off your plate and prove they can handle things on their own. You want to give your team the independence they seek, but have this nagging feeling that they may not be quite up for the challenge.
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review.firstround.com
Twitter’s former Director of Engineering shares the plan he uses to transform engineers into successful and happy managers.
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michaelnygard.com
Suppose we’ve had a recent error with a Kubernetes cluster. As often happens with a problem in our systems, we noticed it first in terms of the visible error, which we could state as “Builds did not complete.” Now we want to trace backwards to figure out what happened. A common technique is the “Fiv…
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zenhabits.net
‘Act without expectation.’ ~Lao Tzu Post written by Leo Babauta. How much of your stress, frustration, disappointment, anger, irritation, pissed-offedness comes from one little thing? Almost all of it comes from your expectations, and when things (inevitably) don’t turn out as we expect, from wishin…
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randsinrepose.com
When you accept a new job, you don’t know who you are going to work with, what you are going to be doing, and how much (or little) you’re going to like it. Call everyone you want. Ask their opinions. Trust the fact that a good friend referred you for the gig. Revel in the idea that the company h
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skamille.medium.com
For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
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www.verywellmind.com
The first bit of information you learn can sometimes bias the decision you ultimately make. Psychologists refer to this as the anchoring bias.
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www.sciencedirect.com
Software architecture documentation helps people in understanding the software architecture of a system. In practice, software architectures are often…
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18f.gsa.gov
18F builds effective, user-centric digital services focused on the interaction between government and the people and businesses it serves.
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bigthink.com
In today’s excerpt – thanks to the work of Daniel Kahneman and others, we now increasingly view our cognitive processes as being divided into two systems. System 1 produces the fast, intuitive reactions and instantaneous decisions that govern most of our lives. System 2 is the deliberate type of thi…
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surj.org
Please see the new “(divorcing) White Supremacy Culture” article and website published by Tema Okun in 2021, a revised and updated take on the original article outlining White Supremacy characteristics written in 1999.
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hbr.org
Two studies reveal two reasons.
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The alternative is messier, but more democratic.
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www.usenix.org
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smallbigideas.substack.com
Your most valuable mental resource.
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www.theatlantic.com
People refer to various forms of malaise as “burnout,” but it’s technically a work problem. And only your employer can solve it.
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review.firstround.com
Therapist Jessmina Archbold (publicly known as Minaa B.) shares her detailed guide to deeper self-care work, pushing back against common myths, offering up tactical advice and making the case for focusing on boundaries.
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opensource.guide
Making your life easier as an open source maintainer, from documenting processes to leveraging your community.
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mcfunley.com
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blog.thepete.net
Deploying something useless into production, as soon as you can, is the right way to start a new project. It pulls unknown risk forward, opens up parallel streams of work, and establishes good habits.
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www.newyorker.com
How an African-American composer’s works were saved from destruction.
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dhemery.com
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webkit.org
This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.
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mobile.twitter.com
Here’s a quick quiz to assess the health of your 1:1s.
Think of one of your direct reports and answer the following questions with "yes", "no", or "I don’t know":
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review.firstround.com
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that’s withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she’s something of a rapid scaling expert. Here’s the key to doing it right, she says.
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Strategies to foster equity and inclusion
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adamdrake.com
Introduction When leading teams, one of the most important things to keep in mind is to lead from a perspective of wanting the team to grow and improve in order to achieve a higher goal. The biggest part of that is taking care of the people on the team. This can mean things people may typically thin…
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larahogan.me
Y’all know how crucial I think one-on-one’s are for managers to get to know their direct reports: what they need from their manager, how they like feedback, ...
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bluepenguindevelopment.com
I had dinner this past Monday night with my old college friend, Rob. Rob lives in Vancouver and I live in Boston, so it doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it’s been 15 years since we’d last seen each other. Fortunately, and as is often the case with people who’ve seen you drunk, high, naked and stu…
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medium.com
… and stop doing things that make sense
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www.thoughtworks.com
Joining strategy together with the execution of the right solution challenges most teams today. It’s difficult for many reasons. Defining a strategy is not a static exercise. Predicting the future is difficult, full of uncertainty, and new information is always being discovered. Complicating things …
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startsmallscalefast.com
How do you structure a large business for continuous innovation? These models provide real insight in organisational design for the modern world
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madeofmetaphors.com
My post before this was a kind of therapy / Buddhism / personal growth kind of deal, but I also spend a lot of time thinking about how to run effective teams a
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18f.gsa.gov
Governments often use two anti-patterns when sustaining software: equating the first release with complete and how they manage the reduction of staff when a reduction in budget is appropriate. To address the latter anti-pattern, managers need to rethink how they approach spending their operations an…
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alexgaynor.net