Geoff Mazeroff

Dates covered: October 13-19, 2014 (week 42 of 52)

Communication

• Always Bet on Text (via Jeff Awtood)

Culture

• The Humanized Expert Beginner (via Eric Dietrich)
• The Old Guard (via Michael Lopp)
• The Code Warriors (via Eric Dietrich)
• Getting Drunk off Our Own Kegerators (via Software Lead Weekly)
• Malcolm Gladwell Says Steve Jobs Became Steve Jobs Because Of This Personality Trait (via Software Lead Weekly)
• My First Six Weeks at Khan Academy (via Software Lead Weekly)
• How side projects saved our startup (via Software Lead Weekly)
• Planet Money: Episode 576: When Women Stopped Coding (via @nprnews)
• Lara Swanson: “Mobile Web at Etsy” Keynote – Velocity Santa Clara 2014 (via Software Lead Weekly)
• Start-ups versus Big Companies: How they compare in what’s awesome and sucky (via Software Lead Weekly)

Economics

• How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas? (via Freakonomics Radio)

Management

• The Silent Company Killer (via Phillip Andreason)
• Great CEOs Deal With ‘Elephants’ First (via Lifehacker)
• Heisenberg Developers (via Rich Rogers)
• What every manager can learn from anonymous app, Secret (via Software Lead Weekly)

Motivation and Productivity

• Stop Perfecting: Move Before You Are Ready (via Lifehacker)
• How to Debug Your Brain (via Oliver Emberton)
• How to Make the Most of a Mentor and Get Ahead in Your Career (via Lifehacker)
• How to Ruthlessly Prioritize Your Task List to Get More Done (via Lifehacker)

Software

• .NET Rocks! 1047: How Different is C++ Today with Kate Gregory (via .NET Rocks!)
• Programming Is Mostly Thinking (via Phillip Andreason)
• .NET Rocks! 1048: RavenDB Update with Oren Eini (via .NET Rocks!)
• .NET Rocks! 1049: Doing Greenfield Right with Jeffrey Palermo (via .NET Rocks!)
• Test-Driving the Game Loop pt. 2 (via 8th Light Blog)
• Todo: Add tests… (via The Morning Brew)
• Chess TDD 19: DoesPieceExistAt and Housekeeping (via Eric Dietrich)
• Try Ruby
• Rails for Zombies Redux

Technology

• David Rothschild Demo of Microsoft Prediction Lab (via Microsoft Research Labs)
• Analog Keyboard for Android Wear (via Microsoft Research Labs)
• 100 Technical Things Non-Technical People Can Learn To Make Their Lives Easier (via Scott Hanselman)
• ELI5: Why does it take multiple passes to completely wipe a hard drive? Surely writing the entire drive once with all 0s would be enough?