Dates covered: July 27-August 2, 2015 (week 31 of 52)
Career
- The Age of Least Resistance (via Cameron Presley)
- Who Accepts Your Team’s Academy Awards? (via Erik Dietrich)
- How Performance Reviews Are Being Reinvented, Refined, and Perfected (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
- 26 Insecurity Signals and the Simple Behavior Changes to Fix Them (via Tyler Tervooren)
- Blunt, Effective Feedback, in 3 Stories (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Positive Coder Experiment (via Phillip Andreason)
Culture
- 4 Symptoms of Dysfunction in Software Teams (via Cameron Presley)
- Do FOSS Projects Need an End User TOS Too? (via Alan Barber)
- Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone with You Forever (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Don’t Try to Fake the Language (via Software Lead Weekly)
Economics
- How to Create Suspense (~40 mins) (via Freakonomics Radio)
- What Is Our Attention Actually Worth? (~12 mins) (via Note to Self)
Productivity
Software development
- Software Bloat Makes Me Sad (via Cameron Presley)
- Chess TDD 44: Starting the Climb toward En Passant (via Erik Dietrich)
- 21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software (via Phillip Andreason)
- Development Teams and Operations (via David Starr)
Technology
- .NET Rocks! 1170: Less Is More in Languages with Mark Seemann (via .NET Rocks!)
- This Website is Secure and WWW Free (via Alan Barber)
- .NET Rocks! 1171: Changes to Glimpse with Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1172: Analyzing Source Code using Moose with Tudor Gîrba (via .NET Rocks!)
- Get Ready for the Future: A high-tech video time capsule from my future self (via Software Lead Weekly)