Culture
Voltron: Teaching Kids Distributed Computing Since 19841 minute read.
My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face. If you're a nerd and write distributed systems, you'll have a good laugh. Bonus point for sharing it at the office!
Read it later via
Pocket or
Instapaper.
Share it via
Twitter or
email.
Tobi Lütke of Shopify: Powering A Team With A ‘trust Battery’5 minutes read.
This insight by Tobi (CEO at Shopify) is spot on, and extremely powerful: "It took me years to realize that a day where I met with investors and spoke at a conference was actually not a wasted day. Intellectually I knew this, but internally it just didn’t feel like it. I had to systematically rebuild how I measured my own contribution. Once I did that, I started realizing that it’s the team that matters, and that the best way for me to spend any given day is to essentially figure out how to make my team a tiny bit better... Trying to build a company that I’m going to be less embarrassed about in 50 years than all my peers is a great motivator for me."
Read it later via
Pocket or
Instapaper.
Share it via
Twitter or
email.
Implementers, Solvers, And Finders7 minutes read.
Randall Koutnik with a post that I'd to send to every Engineering Manager and Technical Lead. This vocabulary provides a good understanding of the different stages both employees and companies share as they grow, keeping in mind that "People want to make decisions rather than execute them".
Read it later via
Pocket or
Instapaper.
Share it via
Twitter or
email.
The Asana Engineering Interview Guide5 minutes read.
This is exactly how I believe you should approach hiring: a lot of honesty and visibility. The one thing you don't want to happen after someone joins the team is for them or you to be surprised.
Read it later via
Pocket or
Instapaper.
Share it via
Twitter or
email.