Dates covered: March 16-23, 2015 (week 12 of 52)
Career
- To fight or not to fight: how to know when to go to battle for an idea (and how to win) (via Rich Rogers)
- The Idea Person (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The fascinating psychology of master comedians (via Lifehacker)
- The Company You Work For Is Not Your Friend (via Lifehacker)
Communication
- Making Feedback Happen (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression (via Jen Myers)
- Co-Worker Slacking Off? Don’t Get Mad—Ask This Question (via Lifehacker)
- Getting Started as a Blogger: A Contract with Your Readers (via Erik Dietrich)
Culture
- World’s Greatest Workplace: Vishen Lakhiani at TEDxAjman (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Ruthlessness And Grit In Startups (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Hating Game (via Jen Myers)
- On Secretly Terrible (Old) Engineers (via TechCrunch)
- The Shodan Programmer (via Phillip Andreason)
- You Don’t Need a DevOps Team: You Need a Tools Team (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Engineering Culture at Airbnb (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Post-Mortems at HubSpot: What I Learned From 250 Whys (via Software Lead Weekly)
Management
- Hiring in tech should prioritize skill, not charisma (via Michael Lopp)
- The Hiring Post (via The Morning Brew)
- How to Start a Startup (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How to bag a geek (via Phillip Andreason)
- Hiring Momentum: Underrated Component of Startup Success (via Software Lead Weekly)
Productivity
- The 5 Daily Rituals That Will Make You Happy (via Lifehacker)
- “Good Enough” Isn’t Always Good Enough (via Lifehacker)
- The Four Motivation Types and How They Affect Your Habits (via Lifehacker)
Software / Technology
- .NET Rocks! 1113: Beyond Kinect with Tim Huckaby (via .NET Rocks!)
- Three Months with the Surface 3 Pro (via Jim Holmes)
- .NET Rocks! 1114: Cross Platform Development with Marc Hoffman (via .NET Rocks!)
- What I Learned from Learning about SpecFlow (via Erik Dietrich)
- .NET Rocks! 1115: Space-Based Power Geek Out (via .NET Rocks!)
Software development
- Explore capabilities, not features (via The Morning Brew)
- .NET Rocks! 1113: Managing an IT Codebase with Steve Evans (via .NET Rocks!)
- The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinking (via Software Lead Weekly)
- ChessTDD 27: Parameterized Acceptance Tests and Scenarios (via Erik Dietrich)
- The Zen of Code Reviews: Pre-Review Comments (via The Morning Brew)
- What makes a good software developer? (via Phillip Andreason)
- Technical debt — it doesn’t have to be this way (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Iteration Management – Post 9 – Personal Iteration Planning (via Jon Kruger)