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Henrik Karlsson, Starting a Blog.

2025-02-01T15:20:00Z

Henrik Karlsson, “Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog,” January 17, 2023, https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/start-a-blog.

Reading notes.

Be yourself, integrated, and ignore what others are doing. Weird combinations of personal interests are way more interesting than just one thing. Develop your own style through embracing quirks. Chat style is more relatable than official written article style. Write for your own purposes, especially in the beginning, by writing to think things through more deeply. Writing to someone specific encourages your emotion and personality to shine because you’re trying to say things that resonate. But the writing has to be well-formed: the learning and organizing comes before the writing so the writing can be off the cuff. Simple formats to try:

here’s a problem and how I solved it
here are reflections on a problem I want to solve
a list of whatever

Having a problem to solve tells the reader what they get for their work. For each piece in the first 100, work to improve one detail:

title
structure
ending
descriptions
dialogue

Gotta work outside of comfort zone to grow, but also have to finish stuff. Deadlines can help with this. Use prompts to start. If you don’t like what you get, start over, done try to edit it to good. Edit, but not too much. Cut the weakest 20% of the draft. There’s no audience to optimize for, let them build from what you find you want to do.

Vicki Boykis, On the Team as a System.

2025-02-01T15:19:00Z

Vicki Boykis, “On the Team as a System,” September 10, 2022, https://veekaybee.github.io/2022/09/10/on-the-team-as-a-system/.

Reading notes.

Software quality comes from systems that value quality, not individuals.

Good management starts with the understanding that there is a theoretically ideal system design, one that is completely efficient and produces perfect work output. From this system, you can make tradeoffs to make it more realistic. You can add code reviews to slow down the system but increase maintainability. Carefully make these tradeoffs, though, to make sure the deficiency does not outweigh the benefit.

Bad management is the adoption of tools and practices without understanding the tradeoffs they create. Breaking up teams introduces queues into the process flow while optimizing comms within it. If this is done without understanding the tradeoff is a problem.

Good teams have effective process. What is missing in a system is just as important has what it has. Slack in work as in kanban adds efficiency. 1:1s are for providing regular feedback, but also puts gaps in the flow of feedback. Takes away the ability to have uninterrupted work. Have to interpret what is being removed and gained when making these changes.

Sam Thomas Davies, Super Thinking.

2025-01-26T00:00:00Z

Sam Thomas Davies, “Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann,” Sam Thomas Davies (blog), accessed January 25, 2025, https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/book-summaries/psychology/super-thinking/.

Reading notes.

This book mostly sounds like a compilation of notes from Thinking in Systems, Essentialism, Your Brain at Work, and Liminal Thinking.

Being wrong less:

Thinking things through from first principles is the best way to be wrong less and to learn new things rapidly. First principles are assumptions that need to be tested in the real world. Use Ockham’s Razor to strip away any unnecessary dependencies.

Traps:

Framing: Stuck in one frame of reference. Consider other frames when an idea is presented.
Nudging: Influenced by specific words or other cues, unrelated to the idea itself
Anchoring: Over-reliance on first impression
Availability bias: Distortions of objectivity/model of the big picture created by overvaluing recent information

To be wrong less about other people, imagine the situation from an impartial observer’s standpoint. Similarly, try to get into an understanding where you can represent the other PoV.

Most Respectful Interpretation MRI is giving benefit of the doubt, choosing to interpret something as favorably as possible.

Hanlon’s Razor suggests carelessness creates negative experience more than malice.

Fundamental Attribution Error is the interpretation that others’ behaviors come from their fundamental motivation rather than external factors. The above strategies help mediate this.

Veil of ignorance: pretending our perspective doesn’t exist when considering how society should be organized

Confirmation bias: using new information to reaffirm existing beliefs.

Backfire effect: tendency to dig into an incorrect position when presented with contrary evidence.

Disconfirmation bias: holding new information to unreasonably high standards that existing beliefs don’t have to clear

Cognitive dissonance: Discomfort cause by possessing two contradictory ideas at the same time. Reinforcement mechanism for confirmation bias.

Real trick to being wrong less: work to accept new information, paradigms.

Models to help do that:

Thinking gray: Get out of black and white thinking, it doesn’t work
Devil’s advocate: Write out opposing rationale. Include opposition when making decisions.
- Helps reduce Optimistic Probability Bias, confusing desire for something to be true with the likelihood it is

Daniel Aronson, Stocks and Flows: Converting From Causal Loop Diagrams.

2025-01-26T00:00:00Z

Daniel Aronson, “Step-By-Step Stocks and Flows: Converting From Causal Loop Diagrams,” January 17, 2016, https://thesystemsthinker.com/step-by-step-stocks-and-flows-converting-from-causal-loop-diagrams/.

Reading notes.

To convert Causal Loop Diagrams to Stock and Flow diagrams:

Identify the units used for each variable in the CLD. Makes the diagram more precise, starts identifying where time is a variable (therefore insinuating a flow), and points out missing variables.
Identify stocks. The prior step may have noted flows, which indicate stocks. (Note that not all time-involved variables are definitely flows.) Consider whether there are additional stocks to involve. (Stocks are drawn as rectangles)
Identify flows. What increases a stock? Decreases it? Every one of these processes is a flow. (Flows are drawn as fat arrows with a circle indicating the activity with a valve connected to it)
Connect stocks and flows. All decreasers are outflows, all increasers are inflows. A stock may need to be connected to a flow if the stock’s size provides information to modulate the flow—information links are line arrows.
Add and link remaining variables. Anything left over is either a constant (like market size) or a calculation (like % market untapped). These variables can only influence each other and flows. If it seems like they are influencing a stock, then they might actually be a full-on flow and should be reconsidered. Variables are just circles connected by information arrows.
Check units. Make sure they all line up and use the same time increments.
Add any remaining variables. The goal here is to get to a calculable model, so any missing ratios etc need to be added to get there.

Jade Rubick, Velocity Role 2 - the Mole.

2025-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Velocity Role 2 - the Mole,” January 23, 2024, https://www.rubick.com/velocity-role-mole/.

Reading notes.

The mole: Spying on the org to bring back intel

Goal is to coordinate with the org better. Absorb as much information and comms as possible. They connect the dots for less informed/attentive folk. Knows who knows what.

Moles ask who would be the best to talk to about things, and which stakeholders need more information.

Risk becoming gossips or preferring social interaction than the actual organizational goals. Shouldn’t undermine trust.

Jeff Rosenthal and Molly Rosen, How to Lead Across a Siloed Organization.

2025-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jeff Rosenthal and Molly Rosen, “How to Lead Across a Siloed Organization,” Harvard Business Review, January 11, 2024, https://hbr.org/2024/01/how-to-lead-across-a-siloed-organization.

Reading notes.

It’s a common problem for CEOs to not know how to get their executive teams to work together, with each executive thinking only about their own function.

Sampling VPs+ who are able to successfully navigate their organizations without harming their relationships, clear trends emerged. They have “lateral agility”, spending as much time with their teams as with the rest of the organization—able to focus on their own objectives while driving forward the objectives of others.

3 traits:

Expanded mindsets: Humility in choosing priorities, putting the entire organization ahead of their own functions. View their job as locating expertise around the organization, weaving it together.
Connective skills: Curiosity and empathy lead to trust and symbiosis. Interest in motivations and constraints of peers. Negotiation skills seeking for everyone to win.
Innovative practices: Everyone brings sketches, no one brings plans that didn’t involve others—never about getting others to take your ideas. Prioritize building relationships with the most important participants.

To improve:

Figure out 5-8 most important stakeholders and decide whether enough time is spent with them
Is time spend going laterally or just vertically?
Learn about the day-to-day lives of people around the organization

Jade Rubick, Velocity Role 4 - the Nowist.

2025-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Velocity Role 4 - the Nowist,” January 25, 2024, https://www.rubick.com/velocity-role-nowist/.

Reading notes.

The Nowist: Strives to remove waiting from the system. Doesn’t wait for communication, questions the need for meetings. Regards deadlines as not the goal but the failure line. There is always a way to make progress without blockers stopping movement. Seeks expertise rather than approval, broadcasting intentions instead of waiting for confirmation. Senses the way a decision will go and gets a head start on following it, risking a bit of wasted work if the guess was wrong. Needs immediate goals to work toward.

Risks creating untenable goals/expectations if this is a leader. Need to pay extra attention to the needs and constraints of people who are introducing slowness.

Jade Rubick, Velocity Role 1 - the Subtractionist.

2025-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Velocity Role 1 - the Subtractionist,” January 22, 2024, https://www.rubick.com/velocity-role-subtractionist/.

Reading notes.

Mindset to create velocity in a team: Subtractionism. Simplification of everything.

Distill complexity into simple representations. Focus discussions on the most important aspects. Prevent scope creep. Essentialism.

Risks cutting too deep, simplifying too far, or completely ignoring secondary improvements.

How to integrate velocity roles on a team:

Have each member choose one role. Keep it secret.
Ask in a month who can guess which role someone chose.
Ask everyone to try on a new role in the following month.
Discuss learnings along the way.

As an individual, monitor the activity of someone who has this skill to learn from them. If there are no role models, consider becoming the trait’s representative.

Jade Rubick, Velocity Role 3 - the Dodger.

2025-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Velocity Role 3 - the Dodger,” January 24, 2024, https://www.rubick.com/velocity-role-dodger/.

Reading notes.

The dodger: foresees and proactively resolves blockers. Liminal role for sure, asking if an assumption or constraint is even true/real. Facilitate others. Develops multiple solutions to problems.

Risks avoiding more permanent solutions upstream through avoidance, creating only temporary and incomplete solutions.

Sheril Mathews, Frustration Tolerance.

2025-01-24T00:00:00Z

Sheril Mathews, “Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs,” January 16, 2025, https://www.leadingsapiens.com/frustration-tolerance/.

Reading notes.

Frustration tolerance is what separates people who can be successful in a large organization from those who can’t hack it. This isn’t patience exactly, it includes ability to focus on the goal while navigating other people.

Psychological definition of frustration is an interfered goal and subsequent dissatisfaction. Impacted by the language of expectation vs reality.

Those with it expect things to go poorly and prepare to cope with it in advance. Those without are surprised and incapable of tolerance—rather accept the frustration rather than deal with the difficulties of changes for the longer-term goal. Have “anxiety about anxiety”, avoiding situations they assume would make them anxious.

Leaders with low frustration tolerance:

abandon initiatives early
react disproportionately to challenges
create a tense environment through their emotional disregulation

Root cause is 4 irrational beliefs, characterized by how things “should” be, how others “must” act, how one “must” perform.

Demands for comfort and ease: expectations that no process or interaction should be challenging to deal with. Leads to avoidance or avoiding growth opportunities.
Demands for fairness and entitlement: demands for more recognition, leading to resentment and conflict. Victim mentality will hurt teamwork and prevent growth in leaders.
Demands for achievement and perfectionism: unrealistic high standards perfectionism creates procrastination and unending projects. Delegation suffers, burnout proliferates, and innovation is prevented.
Demands for emotional control and certainty: refusal to tolerate negative emotions or uncertainty. This stoic behavior leads to cultures where vulnerability is weakness and performers never ask for help, whereby burning themselves out.

Understanding that friction at work isn’t just inevitable but actually desirable helps one learn to wield it for their own intentions.

Brandur Leach, Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It.

2025-01-24T00:00:00Z

Brandur Leach, “Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It,” accessed March 6, 2023, https://brandur.org/soft-deletion.

Reading notes.

Soft delete allows easy restoration. It leaks filtering requirements into query logic, though, and even where this is made easy to do, it’s then easy to forget in manual contexts. It also breaks the benefits of foreign keys. Things like GDPR frown on retaining data unnecessarily. SAoft deletion never actually ends up supporting undeletion, either. Deletions often have side effects in other systems, and un-soft-deleting won’t magically cause the right thing to occur there.

A deleted records JSONB table is probably more useful where there’s a use case of needing to reference old data for troubleshooting etc. Supports regulatory compliance much more easily.

Rich Hickey, Simple Made Easy.

2025-01-24T00:00:00Z

Rich Hickey, “Simple Made Easy,” InfoQ, October 20, 2011, https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/.

Reading notes.

“Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability”. - Edsger W. Dijkstra

Easy is approachable, readily available. Simple is more like not deeply intertwined. They are different things.

Simplicity enables understandability, changeability, debuggability, flexibility.

Build simple systems:

Abstractions answer specific W questions
Return values of constructs are simple
Encapsulation hides complexity for building higher

Jenny Nicholson, Evermore: The Theme Park That Wasn’t.

2025-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jenny Nicholson, “Evermore: The Theme Park That Wasn’t,” November 4, 2022, https://youtube.com/watch?v=L9OhTB5eBqQ.

Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale, What Did They Say When You Told Them?

2025-01-21T00:00:00Z

Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale, “What Did They Say When You Told Them?,” August 7, 2024, https://rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/what-did-they-say-when-you-told-them/.

Reading notes.

You can’t run a “complaint laundry” where all report are bringing their issues to you to resolve or commiserate. There are structurally relevant things to escalate. We work with adults and “what did they say when you told them that?” is a great way to turn complaints into positive action without intervention.

But it goes both ways. Valid escalations can be uncomfortable to resolve, as they’ll involve either lateral or upward discussions that are difficult to have. Those are still necessary to help the org function in a healthy manner.

Ed Zitron, The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses’ Brains.

2025-01-20T16:47:00Z

Ed Zitron, “The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses’ Brains,” February 9, 2023, https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destroying.

Technology Connections, Old-Fashioned Rice Cookers Are Extremely Clever.

2025-01-17T00:00:00Z

Technology Connections, “Old-Fashioned Rice Cookers Are Extremely Clever,” 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI.

David Wheeler, Review of Debugging.

2025-01-16T00:00:00Z

David Wheeler, “David A. Wheeler’s Review of ‘Debugging’ by David J. Agans,” March 2, 2004, https://dwheeler.com/essays/debugging-agans.html.

Ethan Siegel, Protons: Made of Quarks, but Ruled by Gluons.

2025-01-16T00:00:00Z

Ethan Siegel, “Protons: Made of Quarks, but Ruled by Gluons,” January 16, 2025, https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/protons-quarks-gluons/.

Woodruff William, Be Aware of the Makefile Effect.

2025-01-16T00:00:00Z

Woodruff William, “Be Aware of the Makefile Effect,” January 10, 2025, https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/01/10/Be-aware-of-the-Makefile-effect.

Fred Hebert, Queues Don’t Fix Overload.

2025-01-15T00:00:00Z

Fred Hebert, “Queues Don’t Fix Overload,” November 19, 2014, https://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html.

Sebastian Gebski, The Failed Promise of Domain-Driven Design.

2025-01-15T00:00:00Z

Sebastian Gebski, “The Failed Promise of Domain-Driven Design - Part 1,” January 2, 2024, https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-failed-promise-of-domain-driven-design-part-1/.

Jason Wong, Building a First Team Mindset.

2025-01-13T00:00:00Z

Jason Wong, “Building a First Team Mindset,” Jason Wong’s Blog (blog), June 25, 2018, https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/06/25/building-a-first-team-mindset/.

Sanjana Gajbhiye, Male and Female Brains.

2025-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sanjana Gajbhiye, “Male and Female Brains Truly Are Wired Completely Differently,” Earth.com, January 9, 2025, https://www.earth.com/news/male-and-female-brains-are-wired-completely-differently/.

Catherine Pearson, 6 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships in 2023.

2025-01-10T00:00:00Z

Catherine Pearson, “6 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships in 2023,” The New York Times, December 29, 2022, sec. Well, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/well/family/relationship-advice-love-friendship-dating.html.

Anita Hossain Choudhry and Mindy Zhang, The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach.

2025-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anita Hossain Choudhry and Mindy Zhang, “The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach — Four Tools to Add to Your Toolkit,” accessed January 16, 2022, https://review.firstround.com/the-best-managers-dont-fix,-they-coach-four-tools-to-add-to-your-toolkit.

Jennifer Chu, Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light.

2025-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jennifer Chu, “Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light,” December 18, 2024, https://news.mit.edu/2024/physicists-magnetize-material-using-light-1218.

Sigal Samuel, You Can’t Optimize Your Way to Being a Good Person.

2025-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sigal Samuel, “You Can’t Optimize Your Way to Being a Good Person,” December 3, 2024, https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/387570/moral-optimization.

Alex Russell, Frontend’s Lost Decade.

2025-01-09T00:00:00Z

Alex Russell, “Reckoning: Frontend’s Lost Decade,” 2025, https://youtu.be/0XwWVjQOmyg.

Sergey Tselovalnikov, Six Sins of Platform Teams.

2025-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sergey Tselovalnikov, “Six Sins of Platform Teams,” January 7, 2025, https://serce.me/posts/2025-01-07-six-sins-of-platform-teams.

Doc Norton, Tuckman Was Wrong!

2025-01-08T00:00:00Z

Doc Norton, “Tuckman Was Wrong!,” OnBelay, May 5, 2017, https://onbelay.co/articles/2017/5/5/tuckman-was-wrong.

Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building.

2025-01-05T00:00:00Z

Peter Naur, “Programming as Theory Building,” Microprocessing and Microprogramming 15, no. 5 (May 1985): 253–61, (85)90032-8">https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-6074(85)90032-8.

Giacomo Bartolucci et al., Phase Behavior of Cacio and Pepe Sauce.

2025-01-04T00:00:00Z

Giacomo Bartolucci et al., “Phase Behavior of Cacio and Pepe Sauce” (arXiv, December 31, 2024), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.00536.

Joshua Kaplan, A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias.

2025-01-04T00:00:00Z

Joshua Kaplan, “A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.,” ProPublica, January 4, 2025, https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole.

Nicole Forsgren et al., The SPACE of Developer Productivity.

2025-01-03T00:00:00Z

Nicole Forsgren et al., “The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s More to It than You Think.,” Queue 19, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 20–48, https://doi.org/10.1145/3454122.3454124.

Marilyn Haigh, Silent Meetings.

2025-01-02T00:00:00Z

Marilyn Haigh, “Execs from Amazon, LinkedIn and Square Start Some Meetings in Silence — Here’s Why,” CNBC, November 7, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/amazon-and-square-execs-swear-by-the-silent-meeting–heres-why.html.

Julius Seporaitis, What Can 75,000 Pull Requests Tell?

2025-01-02T00:00:00Z

Julius Seporaitis, “What Can 75,000 Pull Requests Tell?,” July 19, 2021, https://www.seporaitis.net/posts/2021/07/19/what-can-75000-pull-requests-tell/.

Ethan Siegel, The One-Page Calendar That Changes How You View the Year.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethan Siegel, “The One-Page Calendar That Changes How You View the Year,” Big Think (blog), January 1, 2025, https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/one-page-calendar/.

Noah Davis, Cycle Time.

2024-12-31T00:00:00Z

Noah Davis, “What Is Cycle Time and Why Does It Matter?,” Code Climate (blog), December 8, 2020, https://codeclimate.com/blog/software-engineering-cycle-time/.

Marianne Bellotti, Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts.

2024-12-30T00:00:00Z

Marianne Bellotti, “Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts,” Medium (blog), December 20, 2021, https://bellmar.medium.com/hunting-tech-debt-via-org-charts-92df0b253145.

Stiltsoft, How to Visualize Cycle Time / Lead Time.

2024-12-29T00:00:00Z

“Pull Request Analytics: How to Visualize Cycle Time / Lead Time and Get Insights for Improvement,” Stiltsoft (blog), March 30, 2021, https://stiltsoft.com/blog/pull-request-analytics-how-to-visualize-cycle-time-lead-time-and-get-insights-for-improvement/.

George Guimarães, 5 Metrics Engineering Managers Can Extract from Pull Requests.

2024-12-29T00:00:00Z

George Guimarães, “5 Metrics Engineering Managers Can Extract from Pull Requests,” SourceLevel (blog), November 14, 2019, https://sourcelevel.io/blog/5-metrics-engineering-managers-can-extract-from-pull-requests.

Noah Davis, What Analyzing 180,000 Pull Requests Taught Us About Shipping Faster.

2024-12-28T00:00:00Z

Noah Davis, “What Analyzing 180,000 Pull Requests Taught Us About Shipping Faster,” Code Climate (blog), November 28, 2018, https://codeclimate.com/blog/what-data-science-tells-us-about-shipping-faster/.

Adrian Colyer, The Evolution of Continuous Experimentation in Software Product Development.

2024-12-27T00:00:00Z

Adrian Colyer, “The Evolution of Continuous Experimentation in Software Product Development | the Morning Paper,” September 29, 2017, https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/29/the-evolution-of-continuous-experimentation-in-software-product-development/.

Jaime Bocanumenth, Five Organizational Models.

2024-12-27T00:00:00Z

Jaime Bocanumenth, “Five Organizational Models,” accessed August 1, 2022, https://www.ursinus.edu/live/files/1157-five-organizational-modelspdf.

Sandi Metz, The Wrong Abstraction.

2024-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sandi Metz, “The Wrong Abstraction,” Sandi Metz, January 20, 2016, https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction.

Sinan Ata, Rockstars vs Superstars.

2024-12-24T00:00:00Z

Sinan Ata, “Rockstars vs Superstars — Get to Know Your People,” Medium, March 19, 2020, https://medium.com/the-crossover-cast/rockstars-vs-superstars-get-to-know-your-people-b30cd878e0a1.

Patrick M. Lencioni, Make Your Values Mean Something.

2024-12-20T00:00:00Z

Patrick M. Lencioni, “Make Your Values Mean Something,” Harvard Business Review, July 1, 2002, https://hbr.org/2002/07/make-your-values-mean-something.

Douglas A. Ready and Emily Truelove, The Power of Collective Ambition.

2024-12-19T00:00:00Z

Douglas A. Ready and Emily Truelove, “The Power of Collective Ambition,” Harvard Business Review, December 1, 2011, https://hbr.org/2011/12/the-power-of-collective-ambition.

Derek Comartin, STOP Doing Dogmatic Domain Driven Design.

2024-12-19T00:00:00Z

Derek Comartin, “STOP Doing Dogmatic Domain Driven Design,” CodeOpinion (blog), June 9, 2021, https://codeopinion.com/stop-doing-dogmatic-domain-driven-design/.

Julia Rozovsky, The Five Keys to a Successful Google Team.

2024-12-19T00:00:00Z

Julia Rozovsky, “Re:Work - The Five Keys to a Successful Google Team,” November 17, 2015, https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/.

Maarten Dalmijn, Shape Up vs Scrum.

2024-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maarten Dalmijn, “Basecamp’s Shape Up: How Different Is It Really from Scrum?,” Medium, May 6, 2020, https://medium.com/serious-scrum/basecamps-shape-up-how-different-is-it-really-from-scrum-c0298f124333.

Brandur Leach, Implementing Stripe-like Idempotency Keys in Postgres.

2024-12-15T00:00:00Z

Brandur Leach, “Implementing Stripe-like Idempotency Keys in Postgres — Brandur.Org,” October 27, 2017, https://www.brandur.org/idempotency-keys.

Richard Cook, How Complex Systems Fail.

2024-12-15T00:00:00Z

Richard Cook, “How Complex Systems Fail,” April 21, 2000, https://how.complexsystems.fail/.

RAPID®: Bain’s Tool to Clarify Decision Accountability.

2024-10-21T00:00:00Z

“RAPID®: Bain’s Tool to Clarify Decision Accountability,” Bain, August 11, 2011, https://www.bain.com/insights/rapid-tool-to-clarify-decision-accountability/.

Benjamin Artz, Amanda Goodall, and Andrew J. Oswald, If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work.

2024-10-20T00:00:00Z

Benjamin Artz, Amanda Goodall, and Andrew J. Oswald, “If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work,” Harvard Business Review, December 29, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/12/if-your-boss-could-do-your-job-youre-more-likely-to-be-happy-at-work.

Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

2024-10-20T00:00:00Z

Melvin E. Conway, “How Do Committees Invent?,” Datamation, April 1968, https://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf.

Charity Majors, Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder.

2024-10-20T00:00:00Z

Charity Majors, “Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder,” charity.wtf, January 4, 2019, https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/.

Ron Carucci, How Corporate Values Get Hijacked and Misused.

2024-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ron Carucci, “How Corporate Values Get Hijacked and Misused,” Harvard Business Review, May 29, 2017, https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-corporate-values-get-hijacked-and-misused.

Jade Rubick, Why and How to Do Skip Level 1-1s.

2024-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Why and How to Do Skip Level 1-1s,” September 30, 2024, https://www.rubick.com/skip-level-1-on-1s/.

Will Larson, Good Engineering Strategy Is Boring.

2024-10-02T00:00:00Z

Will Larson, “Write Five, Then Synthesize: Good Engineering Strategy Is Boring.,” November 26, 2020, https://lethain.com/good-engineering-strategy-is-boring/.

Richard Rumelt, The Perils of Bad Strategy.

2024-10-02T00:00:00Z

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Will Larson, Engineering Strategy Every Org Should Write.

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Angela Giuffrida, Carbonara Is a US Dish.

2023-03-29T00:00:00Z

Angela Giuffrida, “Italian Academic Cooks up Controversy with Claim Carbonara Is US Dish,” The Guardian, March 27, 2023, sec. World news, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/italian-academic-cooks-up-controversy-with-claim-carbonara-is-us-dish.

Jade Rubick, Completed Staff Work.

2023-03-21T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Completed Staff Work,” July 27, 2016, https://www.rubick.com/completed-staff-work/.

Jade Rubick, Advice for New Directors.

2023-03-20T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Advice for New Directors,” February 20, 2023, https://www.rubick.com/advice-for-new-directors/.

Jade Rubick, A History of Mini-Ms.

2023-03-18T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “A History of Mini-Ms,” February 23, 2023, https://www.rubick.com/history-of-mini-ms/.

Premise: History and context of EM groups.

Jade Rubick, Variations for Mini-M Management Support Groups.

2023-03-17T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Variations for Mini-M Management Support Groups,” February 10, 2023, https://www.rubick.com/mini-m-variations/.

Premise: Ideas on ways to adjust EM support group formats.

Jade Rubick, How to Implement Mini-M Support Groups.

2023-03-16T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “How to Implement Mini-M Support Groups,” February 2, 2023, https://www.rubick.com/implementing-mini-m-support-groups/.

Premise: Guidance on implementing EM support groups.

Jade Rubick, Uplevel Your Managers with Mini-M Support Groups.

2023-03-15T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Uplevel Your Managers with Mini-M Support Groups,” January 28, 2023, https://www.rubick.com/mini-m-support-groups/.

Premise: Introduction to an EM support group format.

Jason Sachs, Why Amdahl’s Law is Misleading.

2023-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jason Sachs, “Zebras Hate You For No Reason: Why Amdahl’s Law Is Misleading in a World of Cats (And Maybe in Ours Too) - Jason Sachs,” February 27, 2017, https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1033.php.

Eric Schwitzgebel, If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious.

2023-03-07T00:00:00Z

Eric Schwitzgebel, “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious,” Philosophical Studies, no. 172 (2015): 1697–1721.

View a PDF of the article here.

KK Ottsen, They Are Preparing for War.

2023-03-07T00:00:00Z

KK Ottesen, “‘They Are Preparing for War’: An Expert on Civil Wars Discusses Where Political Extremists Are Taking This Country,” Washington Post, March 8, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/.

Vadim Kravcenko, Contracts You Should Never Sign.

2023-03-06T00:00:00Z

Vadim Kravcenko, “Contracts You Should Never Sign,” Vadim Kravcenko, January 27, 2023, https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/contracts-you-should-never-sign/.

Tim Carmody, Cistercian Numerals.

2023-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tim Carmody, “Cistercian Numerals,” kottke.org, January 30, 2023, https://kottke.org/23/01/cistercian-numerals.

Jade Rubick, Everyone Lies to Leaders.

2023-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jade Rubick, “Everyone Lies to Leaders,” June 1, 2021, https://www.rubick.com/everyone-lies-to-leaders/.

Animation Obsessive, How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki.

2023-03-06T00:00:00Z

Animation Obsessive, “How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki,” Substack newsletter, Animation Obsessive (blog), February 2, 2023, https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-to-paint-like-hayao-miyazaki/.

Don Wentworth, Bashō by Hass.

2023-03-06T00:00:00Z

Don Wentworth, “Issa’s Untidy Hut: ‘Even in Kyoto … I Long for Kyoto:’ Bashō by Hass,” Issa’s Untidy Hut (blog), August 27, 2010, https://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2010/08/even-in-kyoto-i-long-for-kyoto-basho-by.html.

Amos Wenger, Lies We Tell Ourselves to Keep Using Golang.

2023-03-06T00:00:00Z

Amos Wenger, “Lies We Tell Ourselves to Keep Using Golang,” fasterthanli.me, April 29, 2022, https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang.

Clive Thompson, How I Use RSS To ‘Rewild’ My Attention.

2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clive Thompson, “How I Use RSS To ‘Rewild’ My Attention,” Medium (blog), February 7, 2023, https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-i-use-rss-to-rewild-my-attention-7731267a40d8.

Philipp Hauer, Effective Remote Work.

2023-02-01T00:00:00Z

Philipp Hauer, “Lessons Learned from the Book ‘Effective Remote Work,’” August 25, 2022, https://phauer.com/2022/book-remote-work-lessons-learned/.

Kevin Bartley, ETL vs ELT.

2023-01-20T00:00:00Z

Kevin Bartley, “ETL vs ELT: Key Differences, Side-by-Side Comparisons, & Use Cases,” Rivery, June 27, 2022, https://rivery.io/blog/etl-vs-elt/.

Michael McIntyre, Goodhart’s Law.

2022-12-24T00:00:00Z

Michael McIntyre, “Goodhart’s Law,” October 17, 2001, https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/mem/papers/LHCE/goodhart.html.

Basel Al-Sheikh Hussein, The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today.

2022-12-23T00:00:00Z

Basel Al-Sheikh Hussein, “The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today,” Theory and Practice in Language Studies 2, no. 3 (March 1, 2012): 642–46, https://doi.org/10.4304/tpls.2.3.642-646.

Evan Andrews, Sword of Damocles.

2022-12-23T00:00:00Z

Evan Andrews, “What Was the Sword of Damocles?,” HISTORY, February 17, 2016, https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles.

Nancy Friedman, Cunningham’s Law.

2022-12-21T00:00:00Z

Nancy Friedman, “Word of the Week: Cunningham’s Law,” Fritinancy, May 31, 2010, https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/05/word-of-the-week-cunninghams-law.html.

William Morgan, The Generation Ship Model of Software Development.

2022-12-21T00:00:00Z

William Morgan, “The Generation Ship Model of Software Development,” Medium (blog), July 10, 2014, https://medium.com/@wm/the-generation-ship-model-of-software-development-5ef89a74854b.

Robert Lucas, Econometric Policy Evaluation.

2022-11-16T00:00:00Z

Robert E. Lucas, “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique,” Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, no. 1 (1976): 19–46.

Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach.

2022-11-13T00:00:00Z

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 20th anniversary ed (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

Lieberherr and Holland, Assuring Good Style for Object-Oriented Programs.

2022-11-13T00:00:00Z

K.J. Lieberherr and I.M. Holland, “Assuring Good Style for Object-Oriented Programs,” IEEE Software 6, no. 5 (September 1989): 38–48, https://doi.org/10.1109/52.35588.

Benoit Mandelbrot, How Long is the Cost of Britain?

2022-11-13T00:00:00Z

Benoit Mandelbrot, “How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension,” Science 156, no. 3775 (May 5, 1967): 636–38, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.156.3775.636.

Doc Norton, Escape Velocity.

2022-11-09T00:00:00Z

Doc Norton, Escape Velocity: Better Metrics for Agile Teams (Leanpub, 2020), http://leanpub.com/escapevelocity.

Nathaniel Davis, UX Design Practice Verticals.

2022-11-06T00:00:00Z

Nathaniel Davis, “UX Design Practice Verticals,” December 4, 2011, https://methodbrain.com/2011/12/04/ux-design-practice-verticals-2/.

Aaron Gustafson, Understanding Progressive Enhancement.

2022-11-06T00:00:00Z

Aaron Gustafson, “Understanding Progressive Enhancement,” A List Apart, October 7, 2008, https://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhancement/.

Seth Godin, Three Kinds of Forever.

2022-11-06T00:00:00Z

Seth Godin, “Three Kinds of ‘Forever,’” Seth’s Blog, May 17, 2019, https://seths.blog/2019/05/three-kinds-of-forever/.

Will Larson, Staff Engineer.

2022-11-05T00:00:00Z

Will Larson, Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the Management Track, First edition (San Francisco? Will Larson, 2021).

Ben Gremillion, Mobile-First Responsive Design.

2022-11-05T00:00:00Z

Ben Gremillion, “A Hands-On Guide to Mobile-First Responsive Design,” Studio by UXPin (blog), October 1, 2015, https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/a-hands-on-guide-to-mobile-first-design/.

Shin Takahashi, The Manga Guide to Statistics.

2022-10-22T00:00:00Z

Shin Takahashi, The Manga Guide to Statistics (San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2009).

Jasper Polak, McKinsey Presentations.

2022-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jasper Polak, “McKinsey Makes $500,000+ on a Single Presentation. You Can Learn Their Simple Framework below (for Free):,” Tweet, Twitter, July 23, 2022, https://twitter.com/polak_jasper/status/1550816018158833667.

Trey Harris, The Case of the 500-Mile Email.

2022-10-01T00:00:00Z

Trey Harris, “The Case of the 500-Mile Email,” November 29, 2002, https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html.

George Dvorsky, What Is the Purpose of the Universe? Here Is One Possible Answer..

2022-10-01T00:00:00Z

George Dvorsky, “What Is the Purpose of the Universe? Here Is One Possible Answer.,” March 30, 2013, https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-universe-here-is-one-possib-5981472.

Julia Evans, How to Spy on Your Programs with Strace.

2022-10-01T00:00:00Z

Julia Evans, “How to Spy on Your Programs with Strace” (Julia Evans, April 14, 2015), https://wizardzines.com/zines/strace/.

Ann Pietrangelo, Yerkes-Dodson Law.

2022-09-19T00:00:00Z

Ann Pietrangelo, “Yerkes-Dodson Law: How It Correlates to Stress, Anxiety, Performance,” Healthline, October 22, 2020, https://www.healthline.com/health/yerkes-dodson-law.

Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle.

2022-08-11T00:00:00Z

William Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, First edition (San Francisco, Calif.: Stripe Press / Stripe Matter Inc., 2019).

Robert Keidel, Seeing Organizational Patterns.

2022-07-30T00:00:00Z

Robert W Keidel, Seeing Organizational Patterns: A New Theory and Language of Organizational Design (Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2005).

Caleb Kruse, Seeing Blue.

2022-07-25T00:00:00Z

Caleb Kruse, “Focusing on Blue - 10 Projects,” accessed August 10, 2022, https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/.

Premise: The human eye cannot see blue light in focus.

Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, Programming Perl.

2022-07-03T00:00:00Z

Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, Programming Perl, Minor correction, A Nutshell Handbook (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1991).

“I Have Dubbed It The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon”

2022-07-03T00:00:00Z

“Sunday Bulletin Board: I Have Dubbed It The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon,” Twin Cities (blog), October 16, 1994, https://www.twincities.com/1994/10/16/baader-meinhof-phenomenon-sunday-bulletin-board/.

Ricial Dilig, Shokunin.

2022-07-03T00:00:00Z

Ricial Dilig, “Shokunin: The Mastery of One’s Profession,” Pop Japan, May 10, 2018, https://pop-japan.com/culture/shokunin-the-mastery-of-ones-profession/.

Russell Ackoff, From Data to Wisdom.

2022-06-28T00:00:00Z

Russell Ackoff, “From Data to Wisdom,” Journal of Applied Systems Analysis 16 (1989): 3–7.

Russell Ackoff, Continuous Improvement.

2022-06-28T00:00:00Z

Russell Ackoff, “Learning and Legacy of Dr. W. Edwards Deming - Continuous Improvement,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeIG8aPPk.

Will Larson, To Lead, You Have to Follow.

2022-06-27T00:00:00Z

Will Larson, “To Lead, You Have to Follow.,” May 25, 2020, https://lethain.com/to-lead-follow/.

Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law.

2022-06-25T00:00:00Z

C. Northcote Parkinson, “Parkinson’s Law,” The Economist, November 19, 1955, https://www.economist.com/news/1955/11/19/parkinsons-law.

Susanne and Andreas Bartel, The Official Guide to the Kanban Method.

2022-06-23T00:00:00Z

Susanne Bartel and Andreas Bartel, “The Official Guide to the Kanban Method,” February 2021.

Jay H. Bernstein, The Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy and Its Antithesis.

2022-06-22T00:00:00Z

Jay H. Bernstein, “The Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy and Its Antithesis,” Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2 (November 13, 2009): 68–75, https://doi.org/10.7152/NASKO.V2I1.12806.

Lyn Bond, Synthesizing.

2022-06-20T00:00:00Z

Lyn Bond, “Synthesising,” Text, February 16, 2012, https://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab/content/synthesising-0.

Abigail Bassett, The Art of Kakeibo.

2022-06-19T00:00:00Z

Abigail Bassett, “The Art of Kakeibo, the Japanese Budgeting System That Could Change Your Financial Life,” Pocket (blog), February 3, 2020, https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-art-of-kakeibo-the-japanese-budgeting-system-that-could-change-your-financial-life.

Arnold Zwicky, Why Are We so Illuded?

2022-06-18T00:00:00Z

Arnold M. Zwicky, “Why Are We so Illuded?,” September 2006, https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/LSA07illude.abst.pdf.

Will Storr, The Status Game.

2022-05-02T00:00:00Z

Will Storr, The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It, Unabridged (London: William Collins, 2021).

Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals.

2022-05-02T00:00:00Z

Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, First (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).

Allen Wilson, Playing the Zettelkasten RPG Through Arbitrary Constraints.

2022-04-23T00:00:00Z

Allen Wilson, “Playing the Zettelkasten RPG Through Arbitrary Constraints,” Zettelkasten Method (blog), April 8, 2022, https://zettelkasten.de/posts/playing-zettelkasten-rpg-through-arbitrary-constraints/.

Juvoni Beckford, Using Books to Navigate Life.

2022-04-23T00:00:00Z

Anne-Laure Le Cunff, “Interview: Using Books to Navigate Life with Juvoni Beckford,” Ness Labs (blog), November 3, 2020, https://nesslabs.com/juvoni-beckford-interview.

How, Exactly, Is Structure Supposed to Emerge?

2022-04-17T00:00:00Z

Imaginary-Unit-3267, “How, Exactly, Is Structure Supposed to ‘Emerge’?,” Reddit Comment, R/Zettelkasten, March 26, 2022, https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/todvoo/how_exactly_is_structure_supposed_to_emerge/i26u1hq/.

AoM #734 with Brandon Warmke, How Moral Grandstanding Is Ruining Our Public Discourse.

2022-01-09T00:00:00Z

Brett & Kate McKay, “Podcast #734: How Moral Grandstanding Is Ruining Our Public Discourse,” The Art of Manliness (blog), August 23, 2021, https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/moral-grandstanding-podcast/.

AoM #756 with Will Storr, How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything.

2022-01-09T00:00:00Z

Brett & Kate McKay, “Podcast #756: How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything,” The Art of Manliness (blog), November 15, 2021, https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/podcast-756-how-the-desire-for-status-explains-pretty-much-everything/.

Jakub Neander, How To Export PostgreSQL Query Output as CSV.

2022-01-09T00:00:00Z

Jakub Neander, “How To Export PostgreSQL Query Output as CSV,” zaiste.net, accessed January 5, 2022, https://zaiste.net/databases/postgresql/howtos/howto-export-postgresql-query-output-csv/.

Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems.

2022-01-03T00:00:00Z

Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (White River Junction, Vt: Chelsea Green Pub, 2008).

Premise: Changing a system requires understanding the interactions of its components to identify the leverage points by which change is possible.

Society of GK Chesterton, “Taking a Fence Down”.

2021-12-30T00:00:00Z

“Taking a Fence Down,” Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (blog), April 30, 2012, https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/.

AoM #762 with Michael Hyatt, Prepare Now to Have Your Best New Year Ever.

2021-12-21T00:00:00Z

Brett & Kate McKay, “Podcast #762: Prepare Now to Have Your Best Year Ever,” The Art of Manliness (blog), December 8, 2021, https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/your-best-year-ever/.

David Gray, Liminal Thinking.

2021-12-20T00:00:00Z

David Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think, 2016.

Premise: Beliefs shape how we experience the world and they must be changed to produce change.

Ron Jeffries, Story Points Revisited.

2021-12-11T00:00:00Z

Ron Jeffries, “Story Points Revisited,” May 23, 2019, https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/story-points/Index.html.

Premise: Story points had just meant “ideal days”, but today are used for all manner of inappropriate purposes.

Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path.

2021-12-05T00:00:00Z

Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, ed. Laurel Ruma, First Edition (Beijing: O’Reilly, 2017).

Premise: A technical management career has many escalating roles and areas of responsibility.

Kurzgesagt, The Origin of Consciousness.

2021-12-05T00:00:00Z

Kurzgesagt, The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6u0VBqNBQ8.

Premise: Consciousness evolved from the need to find food.

Sarah Drasner, Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager.

2021-11-28T00:00:00Z

Sarah Drasner, “Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager,” CSS-Tricks, February 18, 2021, https://css-tricks.com/mistakes-ive-made-as-an-engineering-manager/.

Premise: A review of some common mistakes that engineering managers make and what to do instead.

David Allen, Getting Things Done.

2021-11-07T00:00:00Z

David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, Revised edition (New York City: Penguin Books, 2015).

Premise: Get things done by writing them into small tasks 0G0.

Christopher Sirk, The History of Kaizen.

2021-11-01T00:00:00Z

Christopher Sirk, “The History of Kaizen,” CRM.org, August 5, 2020, https://crm.org/articles/the-history-of-kaizen.

Premise: Kaizen started in the US pre-WWII before saving Toyota in Japan and then coming back 0M2A.

Sarah Drasner, The Importance of Career Laddering.

2021-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sarah Drasner, “The Importance of Career Laddering,” CSS-Tricks, April 15, 2021, https://css-tricks.com/the-importance-of-career-laddering/.

Premise: Discussing career objectives helps engineers own their career trajectory.

Elizabeth Saunders, 6 Causes of Burnout.

2021-10-27T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Grace Saunders, “6 Causes of Burnout, and How to Avoid Them,” Harvard Business Review, July 5, 2019, https://hbr.org/2019/07/6-causes-of-burnout-and-how-to-avoid-them.

Premise: Burnout can be traced back to specific factors, and those factors can be mitigated.

Mile Oliver, Better Short Term Goals for New Engineering Hires.

2021-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mike Oliver, “Better Short Term Goals for New Engineering Hires | by Mike Oliver | ASICS Digital | Medium,” December 8, 2017, https://medium.com/runkeeper-everyone-every-run/better-short-term-goals-for-new-engineering-hires-9a180f1ebc0f.

Martin Fowler, What do you mean by ”event-driven”?

2021-10-27T00:00:00Z

Martin Fowler, “What Do You Mean by ‘Event-Driven’?,” martinfowler.com, 2017, https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html.

Premise: Evented ecosystem paradigms tend to fall into one of three noteworthy types.

Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning.

2021-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning: The Not-so-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life before 8AM, 2018.

Premise: The way one starts their morning fundamentally changes their outlook on life 6F.

Whitson Gordon, How to Dual Boot and Virtualize the Same Partition on Your Computer.

2021-09-23T00:00:00Z

Whitson Gordon, “How to Dual Boot and Virtualize the Same Partition on Your Computer,” Lifehacker, May 7, 2013, https://lifehacker.com/how-to-dual-boot-and-virtualize-the-same-partition-on-y-493223329.

Bill Burnett & Dave Evans, Designing Your Life.

2021-08-23T00:00:00Z

William Burnett and David J. Evans, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, First edition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).

Premise: Design thinking can uncover better ways of living. 6C

Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland, The Scrum Guide.

2021-08-13T00:00:00Z

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, The Scrum Guide: The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game, 2020, https://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2020/2020-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf.

Premise: Empiricism can help a team create value for stakeholders with increasing speed while reducing waste.

Doanh Do, What Is Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)?

2021-08-12T00:00:00Z

Doanh Do, “What Is Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)?,” The Lean Way, August 5, 2017, https://theleanway.net/what-is-continuous-improvement.

Premise: Kaizen is action and analysis to reduce waste and improve operations 0M2.

Jeff Sutherland, Scrum.

2021-08-12T00:00:00Z

Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, First Edition (New York: Crown Business, 2014).

Premise: Any team can reduce waste and deliver the most impactful work with the application of scrum.

Willem-Jan Ageling, 7 Reasons Not to Use Scrum.

2021-08-11T00:00:00Z

Willem-Jan Ageling, “7 Reasons Not to Use Scrum,” Serious Scrum (blog), October 29, 2019, https://medium.com/serious-scrum/7-reasons-not-to-use-scrum-480530e3e00a.

Simon Sinek, Most Leaders Don’t Even Know the Game They’re In.

2021-08-05T00:00:00Z

Simon Sinek, Most Leaders Don’t Even Know the Game They’re In | Simon Sinek, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTQ5-SQYTo&ab_channel=SimonSinek.

Premise: Leadership ought to focus on ongoing improvement, not try to win against someone else.

Thierry de Pauw, Shades of Conway’s Law.

2021-07-31T00:00:00Z

Thierry de Pauw, “Shades of Conway’s Law,” ThinkingLabs:: Thierry de Pauw, May 3, 2021, https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/05/07/shades-of-conways-law.html.

Nir Eyal, Hooked.

2021-07-23T00:00:00Z

Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (New York, New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2014).

Premise: Understanding the psychology of motivation is instrumental in building high-engagement products.

Dan Pink, The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us.

2021-07-23T00:00:00Z

Dan Pink, RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc.

Premise: People are motivated by mastery, autonomy, and purpose; compensation only motivates up to the point where money is no longer a major issue.

Robert Burton, Where Science and Story Meet.

2021-07-21T00:00:00Z

M. D. Robert Burton, “Where Science and Story Meet,” Nautilus, April 22, 2013, http://nautil.us/issue/0/the-story-of-nautilus/where-science-and-story-meet.

Jeremiah Lee, Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals.

2021-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah Lee, “Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals,” April 19, 2020, https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/.

Premise: The Spotify Model optimized for autonomy, which is not what the firm needed, so the approach failed 4B1H.

Brené Brown, Dare to Lead.

2021-05-02T00:00:00Z

Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts (New York: Random House, 2018).

Premise: Vulnerability is necessary to lead teams with clarity and trust 4B6C.

Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain Podcast.

2021-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tiago Forte, “The Building a Second Brain Podcast,” accessed July 24, 2021, https://open.spotify.com/show/40O0Lbp5ockSt0qSogo6q1?si=8Xuq_oxxQp2UYvqIp6WDMA&dl_branch=1.

Premise: Collecting and distilling every day knowledge work inputs enables faster and more comprehensive creative output.

Dustin Gorski, When to Use Scrum?

2021-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dustin Moris Gorski, “When to Use Scrum? Waterfall vs. Scrum vs. Kanban vs. Scrumban - Dusted Codes,” Dusted Codes (blog), November 8, 2015, https://dusted.codes/when-to-use-scrum-waterfall-vs-scrum-vs-kanban-vs-scrumban.

Premise: Each work management methodology has circumstances where it’s optimized for the problems and needs—scrum is not the end-all-be-all of work management.

Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage.

2021-05-02T00:00:00Z

Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, 1st ed (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012).

Premise: Organizational health is the most important focus of a company 4B3.

Nick deWilde, The Learning Loop of Knowledge Work.

2021-05-02T00:00:00Z

Nick deWilde, “The Learning Loop of Knowledge Work,” 2021, https://junglegym.substack.com/p/learning-loop-of-knowledge-work.

Premise: Organizations can actively foster learning 0C1.

David Rock, Your Brain at Work.

2021-05-02T00:00:00Z

David Rock, Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long, 1st ed (New York: Harper Business, 2009).

Premise: Understanding how the brain works allows one to wield it more effectively 0G3.

Elon Musk’s Loop - It’s Bad, Folks.

2021-04-16T00:00:00Z

@donoteat01, “Elon Musk’s Loop - It’s Bad, Folks,” 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs&ab_channel=donoteat01.

Gary Neilson et al., 10 Principles of Organization Design.

2021-03-23T00:00:00Z

Gary Neilson, Jaime Estupiñán, and Bhushan Sethi, “10 Principles of Organization Design,” strategy+business, 2015, https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00318?gko=31dee.

Premise: Aligning an org with strategy happens with several variables.

Robert Keidel, The Three Reasons to Hold a Meeting.

2021-03-21T00:00:00Z

Robert Keidel, “The Three Reasons to Hold a Meeting,” Wharton Magazine (blog), March 23, 2017, https://magazine.wharton.upenn.edu/digital/the-three-reasons-to-hold-a-meeting/.

Karla Segura Chavarría, Will Betelgeuse Go Hypernova?

2021-03-19T00:00:00Z

Karla Segura Chavarría, “Space and Earth Science: Will the Giant Star Betelgeuse Go HyperNova?,” Space and Earth Science (blog), 2011-08-29, http://spaceandearthsciencearticles.blogspot.com/2011/08/will-giant-star-betelgeuse-go-hypernova.html.

Merve Emre, Secret History Of Myers-Briggs.

2021-03-19T00:00:00Z

Merve Emre, “Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs,” Digg, October 1, 2015, https://digg.com/2015/myers-briggs-secret-history.

What it’s like inside of a black hole.

2021-03-19T00:00:00Z

RobotRollCall, “Reddit: What It’s like inside of a Black Hole,” Reddit Comment, R/Askscience, January 15, 2011, https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/f1lgu/what_would_happen_if_the_event_horizons_of_two/c1cuiyw/.

Rouan Wilsenach, DevOpsCulture.

2021-03-19T00:00:00Z

Rouan Wilsenach, “Bliki: DevOpsCulture,” martinfowler.com, July 9, 2015, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DevOpsCulture.html.

Martin Fowler, MicroservicePrerequisites.

2021-03-19T00:00:00Z

Martin Fowler, “Bliki: MicroservicePrerequisites,” martinfowler.com, August 28, 2014, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html.

Mark Forster, Noguchi Filing System.

2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mark Forster, “Noguchi Filing System,” June 9, 2008, http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2008/6/9/noguchi-filing-system.html.

Watts & Hertvik, Technical Debt: The Ultimate Guide.

2021-01-15T00:00:00Z

Stephen Watts and Joe Hertvik, “Technical Debt: The Ultimate Guide – BMC Blogs,” July 30, 2020, https://www.bmc.com/blogs/technical-debt-explained-the-complete-guide-to-understanding-and-dealing-with-technical-debt/.

Premise: Defining and managing technical debt.

Steven Rogelberg, The Surprising Science of Meetings.

2021-01-09T00:00:00Z

Steven G. Rogelberg, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Premise: Meetings can be very effective with the right approaches.

Scaled Agile Framework, WSJF.

2021-01-08T00:00:00Z

“WSJF,” Scaled Agile Framework (blog), accessed January 7, 2021, https://www.scaledagileframework.com/wsjf/.

Greg McKeown, Essentialism.

2021-01-03T00:00:00Z

Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, First Edition (New York: Crown Business, 2014).

Premise: Focus only on the disproportionately valuable options 0G2.

Sascha Fast, The Barbell Method of Reading.

2020-12-31T00:00:00Z

Sascha Fast, “The Barbell Method of Reading,” Zettelkasten Method, 2018, https://www.zettelkasten.de/posts/barbell-method-reading/.

Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes.

2020-12-28T00:00:00Z

Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking: For Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2017).

Premise: Writing is thinking 0G1.

Jon-Paul Bruce, Milliseconds Make Millions.

2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jon-Paul Bruce, “Milliseconds Make Millions,” Deloitte Digital, March 24, 2020, https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ie/Documents/Consulting/Milliseconds_Make_Millions_report.pdf.

Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets.

2017-05-05T00:00:00Z

Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2018).