[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":76},["ShallowReactive",2],{"issue-430":3},{"favorite":4,"culture":16,"peopleware":44,"inspirational":65},[5],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":9,"label":10,"title":11,"url":12,"domain":13,"summary":14,"timeToRead":15},"Issue 430 - 19th February 2021",430,"19th February 2021",1613677248,"favorite","Short Fat Engineers Are Undervalued","https:\u002F\u002Fnested.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fshort-fat-engineers-are-undervalued","nested.substack.com","\"Intangibles, by definition, are hard to put a price on. But if you're investing in someone for the long haul—especially if that someone is yourself—and you care more about where you're going than how fast you get there, always favor breadth over depth.\" -- Jeff Schwab's thoughts on magnitude (depth) and direction (breadth) in your career vector are spot-on. Changing this balance between them every few months can be fun and engaging.",4,[17,25,33,38],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":18,"label":19,"title":20,"url":21,"domain":22,"summary":23,"timeToRead":24},1612466101,"funny!","All Tests Passed","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Flaurieontech\u002Fstatus\u002F1355600163226660872","twitter.com","My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face, even in this difficult time.",1,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":26,"label":27,"title":28,"url":29,"domain":30,"summary":31,"timeToRead":32},1613679686,"culture","The Problems With MVPs in Legacy Replacement","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thoughtworks.com\u002Finsights\u002Fblog\u002Fpart-1-problems-mvps-legacy-replacement","thoughtworks.com","I highly recommend reading both parts by Meaghan Waters as they can help you avoid the MVP trap when coming up with a new solution to replace a legacy (already in production) system: \"Given what you generally have is a fully functioning system, anything less than that is likely to be perceived incredibly negatively. You only get one shot at that first impression, if it’s not great you’re going to spend a lot of time overcoming the ‘noise’ of people being much more vocal about their losses than their gains and it will make subsequent releases harder.\"",6,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":34,"label":27,"title":35,"url":36,"domain":22,"summary":37,"timeToRead":15},1613678092,"10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore (Thread)","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fjschauma\u002Fstatus\u002F1359344687287439362","An excellent thread by Jan Schaumann of mistakes we all make (more than once :)) at some point in our career. We need to create a team Anki version (spaced repetition) of these rules to be more aware of the signals and act differently.",{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":39,"label":27,"title":40,"url":41,"domain":42,"summary":43,"timeToRead":32},1613073620,"Engineering Productivity Can Be Measured - Just Not How You'd Expect","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.okayhq.com\u002Fblog\u002Fengineering-productivity-can-be-measured","okayhq.com","Antoine Boulanger offers ways to measure your team's effectiveness and happiness by looking at the team level instead of the individual, looking for blockers and focus time. It's a mix of collecting inputs automatically (from tools you use) with surveys to collect qualitative measurements. This is not a sponsored post, and I'm not a customer of their solution. We can all start with asking the questions suggested by Antoine and see where we stand with free tools (e.g. Google forms).",[45,53,58],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":46,"label":47,"title":48,"url":49,"domain":50,"summary":51,"timeToRead":52},1613679568,"peopleware","To the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading Language","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sciencedaily.com\u002Freleases\u002F2020\u002F12\u002F201215131236.htm","sciencedaily.com","\"Understanding computer code seems to be its own thing. It's not the same as language, and it's not the same as math and logic\" -- Looking at problems such as how to structure code (for readability) and how to teach people to write code is not trivial. If you think of it as a hard cognitive problem, such as solving a puzzle, maybe we can think more about nurturing intrinsic motivation (focus on value creation as the goal) and using breadcrumbs (clues) and stories to explain architecture and code.",5,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":54,"label":47,"title":55,"url":56,"domain":22,"summary":57,"timeToRead":15},1612464854,"I Just Read All of Jeff Bezos's 23 Letters to Amazon Shareholders. And Here's a Thread With Just One Key-Takeaway From Each of These Letters.  So if You're an Artist or an Entrepreneur Looking to Get Some Insight Into the Mind of This Genius, Read This Right Now. (Thread)","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fsumitgrrg\u002Fstatus\u002F1356943550932422658","Sumit Grrg shares his insights from Jeff Bezos's letters to Amazon shareholders in an easier way to digest. Go and read the letter from the year you liked the takeaways or want to get more context around it.",{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":59,"label":47,"title":60,"url":61,"domain":62,"summary":63,"timeToRead":64},1613737568,"Leading Without Managing","https:\u002F\u002Fxdg.me\u002Fleading-without-managing\u002F","xdg.me","A must-read by David Golden for both managers and individual contributors who want to lead without forcing their authority: \"Think about whether your leadership is in service of your wants or the wants of others or your organization. Don’t forget the metagame – you may be more successful and perceived as more valuable by helping others achieve their wants than by fighting for your own.\"",7,[66,72],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":67,"label":68,"title":69,"url":70,"domain":22,"summary":71,"timeToRead":24},1613678136,"inspirational","Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fdarylginn\u002Fstatus\u002F1361196412835422208","",{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":73,"label":68,"title":74,"url":75,"domain":22,"summary":71,"timeToRead":24},1613678184,"A formula to improve at any skill: practice analytically, perform intuitively. Break down your craft when you’re away from it. Critique yourself, set a strategy, and hire a coach when you need to. But once it’s time to perform, follow your intuition.","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fdavid_perell\u002Fstatus\u002F1361186989844946944",1786781349164]