For the more abstract work, it makes it a lot easier for other people to ‘read your mind’ and for you to delegate if you share as much context as possible as Anna Shipman describes here.
Something that bears pointing out regularly: “Plus, contrary to popular belief, agile practices were not invented by the Agile movement. They predate it by many decades.”
https://medium.com/columbus-egg/dear-agile-im-tired-of-pretending-d39ab6a12003
Cath writes some very salient points about growing into leadership that on the one hand should be more widespread, but on the other hand, everybody will likely have to find out for themselves.
Also nice to see this local group of people taking the next steps in their careers if even only witnessed from afar like this.
A very recognizable story of an engineering organization finding itself and one person’s journey into leadership and back.
The step to leadership should definitely not be a one-way door. People can’t really know beforehand that they want to do this and even if they rollback, everybody will be much better off for having tried it.
https://medium.com/@FlippEng/from-engineer-to-manager-and-back-again-64e796d45945
My foray into local politics showed me that more than anything the Grüne are a party of yuppies without much or any social face behind it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/german-greens-rise-nation-divided
I haven’t read this profile of the Sacklers. I’ll only read one when it is profiling them because they will be executed for their crimes.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/david-sackler-pleads-his-case-on-the-opioid-epidemic
I’ve never exactly followed any framework but instead, I played it by ear and mixed and matched what worked best from wherever I could find it. That’s always a bit bothersome (but easily solved) when people want to work with the exact definition of something.
Formalizing that approach as SWARMing (Scaling Without A Religious Methodology) is an interesting twist indeed.
Whenever our kids are dismayed by somebody else, they come to us and say that there was either a human (ein Mensch!) or a kid (ein Kind!). No genders, no nothing.
Leaving this here because I’m going to need it more often:
The ‘smart’ in smart city is not smart as in intelligent, it is smart as in upscale.
Any programming language once it gets big enough will face pressure to turn into Java. PHP succumbed to it, let’s see where Go goes. Try isn’t that big of an issue but it is a path that eventually may lead to… generics and other stuff.
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2019/07/an-open-letter-to-the-go-team-about-try.html