Dates covered: April 13-19, 2015 (week 16 of 52)
Career
- Some Things I Have Learned (via Software Lead Weekly)
- What I’d tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years. (via Rich Rogers)
- You can now spend your evenings watching other people code (via Pluralsight Blog)
- .NET Rocks! Working on Your Personal Brand with Eileen Fisher (via .NET Rocks!)
Communication
- How to Deal with a Bad Coworker (via Art of Manliness)
- My Blog: If I Build It, Will They Come? (via Erik Dietrich)
- Criticism and Ineffective Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Why and where is teamwork important? (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Do You Really Need to Hold that Meeting? (via Lifehacker)
- How to Write with Substance and Improve Your Communication (via Lifehacker)
Culture
- Why Self-Organizing is So Hard (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Introducing Progressive Equity (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Code Is Just the Symptom (via Cameron Presley)
- The Null Process (via Cameron Presley)
- Why do some developers at strong companies like Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (via Cameron Presley)
- The New Struggles Facing Open Source (via Phillip Andreason)
- Part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How We Launch New Products and Features (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Size Matters: Why Growth Happens on Small Teams (via Software Lead Weekly)
Economics
- Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend (via Freakonomics Radio)
- Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield (via Software Lead Weekly)
Management
- Little Things (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Why Employees Leave Their Managers (via Rich Rogers)
- To be a great leader, rethink your default behaviors (via Software Lead Weekly)
Motivation
Productivity
- The One-Dayer (via Software Lead Weekly)
- 4 Tips to Help Programmers Stay on Track (via Pluralsight Blog)
- Consistency and Discipline over Motivation (via Phillip Andreason)
Psychology
- Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren’t Taught in School (via Lifehacker)
- 7 ways tech pros can reduce stress right at their desks (via Pluralsight Blog)
Software development
- Cynicism and Experience (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Chess TDD 30: Starting to Be Idiomatic with SpecFlow (via Erik Dietrich)
- .NET Rocks! 1126: The Three Ps with Mike Benkovich (via .NET Rocks!)
- Iteration Management – Post 12: Capacity Planning (via Jon Kruger)
- Does Organization Matter? (via Uncle Bob)
- Common Agile Practice Isn’t for Startups (via Cameron Presley)
Software/technology
- .NET Rocks! 1125: Docker for Developers with Seth Lachner (via .NET Rocks!)