Dates covered: January 26-February 1, 2015 (week 5 of 52)
Career
- Career Death by Management (via Elisabeth Hendrickson)
- What to Do When You’re Stuck in a Death March (via Pluralsight Blog)
- Being the Best (via Phillip Andreason)
- How Safe Is Your Job? (via Freakonomics Radio)
- Changing perspectives on your job – Will you renew your boss for another season? (via Scott Hanselman)
- Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
- Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Pair Programming Economics (via Brendan Enrick)
Culture
- HR&D – How to Buy a Gift for an Engineer (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Coding is the Not the New Literacy (via Greg Jorgensen)
- Why Has Innovation Slowed Down? (Or Has It?) (via Scott Berkun)
- Transparency for Startups (via Software Lead Weekly)
- There is No Talent Shortage — Velocity NYC 2013 — Andrew Clay Shafer (via Software Lead Weekly)
- 10 Things that changed how I thought about building things that matter (via Software Lead Weekly)
Design
Management
- How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Shit Rolls Downhill (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Still totally obsessed with how to do this manager job (via Software Lead Weekly)
Productivity
- Write This Down: Taking Notes is Your Most Underrated Work Skill (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Mental Models: Solve Problems by Approaching Them from New Perspectives (via Lifehacker)
- To-do lists are evil. Schedule everything. (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software
- Git In Six Hundred Words (via Brian Friesen)
- .NET Rocks! 1092: WPF All Grown Up with Billy Hollis (via .NET Rocks!)
- There Is No Thread (via Phillip Andreason)
- ChessTDD 25: Yak-Shaving with a visit to trusty old ExtendedAssert (via Eric Dietrich)
- .NET Rocks! 1093: Mobile First with Chris Love (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1094: Beyond Software Craftsmanship with Uncle Bob (via .NET Rocks!)
- How to Write Premium JavaScript (via Reid Evans)