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What Medieval People Got Right About Learning scotthyoung.com
“Why apprenticeships beat classrooms”.
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The impact of the 'open' workspace on human collaboration sci-hub.st
Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration.
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Algorithm for writing a scientific manuscript sci-hub.st
A process to guide the preparation and refinement of manuscripts.
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Adaptation vs adaptability sci-hub.st
There is a spectrum between perfect efficiency and being completely flexible. This article explores ecosystems and the flows of material and energy between different organisms within the ecosystem. (hinted by HN comment)
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The SAFe Delusion safedelusion.com
Curated review of facts, evidence, and opinions from relevant sources without vested interests, to help decision-makers make informed choices and get better results.
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On being an Engineering Manager ruiper.es
Some of these points needs nuance, but others are a good taste of things to come for first-time managers.
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On Bullshit ruby.fgcu.edu
This HN comment perfectly describes the concept. “Unlike lying/fraud, where falsehood is instrumental, Frankfurt defined bullshit as potentially false speech where the truth simply wasn't important. Bullshit is characterized by giving the surface appearance of confidence…
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Developer Roadmaps roadmap.sh
💸 Very high-level guides and paths to learn different practice and tools.
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The Gervais Principle ribbonfarm.com
A cynical, bleak, but still fascinating take on the management ladder, based on The Office.
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Identify what makes a great manager rework.withgoogle.com
Google tried to prove managers don't matter. Instead, it discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones.
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Hiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework review.firstround.com
“How do I hire a VP of Engineering? After more than 20 years, eight companies, and thousands of hires, I'm starting to suspect this may be the wrong question. A better one is, What is a VP of Engineering?”
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Don't (guess)timate your projects, forecast with confidence reaktor.com
“The problem with spending a lot of time on estimating is that it can feel useful, but often is so inaccurate that it hardly yields much value to the business.” The best we can do is measure and forecast.
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US spy manual has tips for coping with toxic bosses qz.com
Derived from WWII-era Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a classic read to spot harassing and demoralizing behaviors.
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How to have great meetings, according to 200 scientific studies qz.com
A roadmap for getting meetings right.
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A quote quoteinvestigator.com
to tame the one above.
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The Evolution of Management: Transitioning up the ladder queue.acm.org
Describe the path and expectations at each management level.
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A Conversation with Werner Vogels, Learning from the Amazon technology platform queue.acm.org
Scaling systems is not only a technical challenge. It has to be about teams and culture too. One lesson learned from the early days of AWS: “Giving developers operational responsibilities has greatly enhanced the quality of the services, both from a customer and a technology…
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Psychology Today: How Programmers Can Avoid Burnout psychologytoday.com
“Veteran software developers often recommend to: 1. Work at a place where you can grow; 2. Build transferable skills; 3. Have creative outlets and create a space to focus on yourself, switch off, and relax; 4. Of course, there's always the nuclear option: make your money and…
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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry prog21.dadgum.com
“When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity.”
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The Baldwin Formula for scientific writing: writing papers and reviews people.clas.ufl.edu
“The most efficient way to write scientific papers is to write while you are still conducting experiments”.
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How to Write a Technical Paper pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Serves as a guideline on how to write a good technical paper, in the form of a typical journal publication.
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Goodbye, Clean Code overreacted.io
“My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean! (…) I see now that my 'refactoring' was a disaster in two ways: I didn't talk to the person who wrote it; My code traded the…
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7 Rules of Power openlibrary.org
By Jeffery Pfeffer. Tells you how to play office politics if success in the workplace is the only thing you care about.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently openlibrary.org
We learn in this book that employee happiness was not correlated to company success. A comment on HN details the questions that were highly correlated to company success.
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W. Edwards Deming openlibrary.org
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The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey openlibrary.org
The author use a parable in which problems are monkeys. Unexperienced managers let monkeys being transferred to them, accumulates on their back and compounds. From this, the book teach you how to change from taking on responsibilities to delegating them so you don't become a…
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Living with Complexity, by Donald A. Norman openlibrary.org
In which we learn that, based on Tesler's law of the conservation of complexity, “the total complexity of a system is a constant: as you make the person's interaction simpler, the hidden complexity behind the scenes increases. Make one part of the system simpler, said Tesler…
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The 48 Laws of Power openlibrary.org
By Robert Greene. Can teach you how to cover your ass and be effective in a highly political org.
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Essays on object-oriented software engineering openlibrary.org
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Making Nice or Faking Nice? Exploring Supervisors' Two-Faced Response to their Past Abusive Behavior onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.st
“It behooves organizations that want to develop highly authentic supervisors or organizational climates to seek to hire supervisors that are lower (or at least not higher) on symbolized moral identity.”
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Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft onezero.medium.com
After 3 decades in a deeply flawed company, the author comes to a humble conclusion: leaders should embodies the value of their employees. Not the other way around. “Changes at the top — not speeches, training or hashtags — make the most cultural impact. If you want real and…
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Please don't say just hello in chat nohello.net
When properly used, interactive written medium allows for asynchronous communication.
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How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
There's an interesting table in this article on the strereotypes of companies, their funding models, main engineering actors, and their central methodologies.
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There's a third direction you can go, I call it going deep. news.ycombinator.com
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How shitty job crush your soul, then lead to burnout news.ycombinator.com
“Burnout is a very serious situation. If you burn yourself out hard, it will be difficult to be effective at any future job you go to, even if it is ostensibly a wonderful job. Treat burnout like a physical injury.”
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Some tips on public speaking news.ycombinator.com
“If you ever find yourself buffering on output, rather than making hesitation noises, just pause. People will read that as considered deliberation and intelligence.”
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About corporate middle management news.ycombinator.com
“As a manager in a large corporation you are expected to be an aligner. (…) You have to manage frictions and strive to make the people above you look good.”
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A vitally important part of the job: being a crap shield news.ycombinator.com
“A lot of the work of an EM is wading into the slurry pit with a shovel so your team are free to get the job done”.
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The different engineering levels at Google news.ycombinator.com
From L3 to L8: a quick description of what makes an engineer at each level.
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) - Or how fraud can endure at the top level. That's generally why you need a board of directors as an oversight.
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For all you future CTOs, consider your incentive schemes carefully news.ycombinator.com
How a promotion scheme marked the end of Uber's engineering excellence and the start of what made the company turn into a bureaucratic mess.
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As a manager of a new employee I make an absolute point of being a "helicopter mom" from the moment they hit the area… news.ycombinator.com
Navigating a new organization will be hard the first few weeks, and the presence of a manager can help speed things up.
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Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable. news.ycombinator.com
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