How To Be Successful
Creating a Culture of Listening
DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity - ACM Queue
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward | Dylan Black | Substack
Some things that aren't worth doing are worth overdoing. Click to read Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward, by Dylan Black, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers.
Hustle culture is over-rated
Let's celebrate sustainability over all-nighters and re-define what hard work looks like.
Dev Team Lead: 8 things they didn't tell me when I got promoted
When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. I learned quickly. Read the 8 things that I was someone had told me when I was promoted.
10 Years of Tech Debt Research
A look at the past, present, and future of tech debt.
Mindfulness might hinder prosocial behavior among individuals with high intelligence
Mindfulness has been linked to engaging in behavior that seeks to benefits others in many previous studies, but is that true for all individuals? A study published in Scientific Reports suggests that people with higher intelligence who are more mindful may actually be less prone to engage in prosocial behavior. ...
Write It Down
A new way to measure developer productivity – from the creators of DORA and SPACE
An exclusive interview with the four researchers behind a new developer productivity framework: The three dimensions of DevEx
The complicated parts of leadership: Betting on people
In this series of short stories, I share tricky situations I’ve encountered while leading teams. These experiences have taught me invaluable leadership lessons and greatly influenced my manag…
Escaping creative downturns
If I'm stuck in a creative downturn, there's usually only one remedy: keep going. That is, accept the downturn, but continue to stare at the computer, waiting for it to pass. While staring at the computer, there's room for menial and managerial tasks put aside during more inspired times. Checking up on things, getting back to people, a...
⚡️ Take Back the Future!
Smashing Podcast Episode 55 With Tejas Kumar: Is Technology Making Us Redundant? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode, we ask whether technology is making us redundant; will we all soon be replaced with AI? Vitaly Friedman talks to Tejas Kumar to find out.
Individual and Team Priorities for Developers — Main Quest & Side Quest Analogy
Over the last year, I have managed seven developers (iOS and Android) inside a Mobile Team with Quality Engineers, Product managers and…
Nailspotting
Hammering the cramps.
The Industrial Hammer Complex
Marketing, Hype, and Making Decisions
My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated
Why Agile Is Not for Me
Report download - Growing developers as a people-first engineering leader — hejtop
Managing complex organizational change
The Developer Advocacy Handbook
The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job | Christian Heilmann
On Hypersanity | Psychology Today
Physics Girl & the Devastating Effects of Long COVID
‘I’m going for it like crazy’: Eddie Izzard on her one-woman, 19-role Great Expectations
The Calm Web: A Solution to Our Scary and Divisive Online World - Calibre
Jeremy Deller: ‘The world worries me – but for an artist, that’s a good thing’
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