[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":77},["ShallowReactive",2],{"issue-543":3},{"favorite":4,"culture":16,"peopleware":46,"inspirational":66},[5],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":9,"label":10,"title":11,"url":12,"domain":13,"summary":14,"timeToRead":15},"Issue 543 - 21st April 2023",543,"21st April 2023",1681411097,"favorite","Stay in the Game","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.albertbridgecapital.com\u002Fpost\u002Fstay-in-the-game","albertbridgecapital.com","This story really moved me. I have my fair share of people around me who dealt with anxiety and depression. It's not getting any better in today's ever-changing environment. Staying in the game is not trivial, but I'm sharing this story as it serves a good lesson: We cannot solve everything or even sometimes help the people we love most, yet we act like Kenny. As a parent of 3 young kids, it inspired me to think about how I can instill Kenny's heart and mindset in them.",6,[17,25,33,40],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":18,"label":19,"title":20,"url":21,"domain":22,"summary":23,"timeToRead":24},1682006826,"funny!","A Beautiful Choreography","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fmymind\u002Fstatus\u002F1646574650686668810","twitter.com","My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face. That is teamwork at its finest.",1,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":26,"label":27,"title":28,"url":29,"domain":30,"summary":31,"timeToRead":32},1682006680,"culture","Progress Is a Lake, Not a Line","https:\u002F\u002Fsookocheff.com\u002Fpost\u002Fopinion\u002Fprogress-is-a-lake-not-a-line\u002F","sookocheff.com","This is a great way to think of technological changes: \"A better analogy for progress is a young lake, growing from the continual melting of a glacier. As water is added to the lake, progress happens along all edges of the lake, all at the same time, continuously, and gradually. With this viewpoint, new technology doesn’t develop linearly from the old, it grows outwards from the centre.\" -- Easily applicable to the current hype around Generative AI.",3,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":34,"label":27,"title":35,"url":36,"domain":37,"summary":38,"timeToRead":39},1682006505,"Excuse Me, Is There a Problem? Many Startups Fail Despite Identifying a Real Problem and Building a Product That Solves That Problem. This Explains Why, So You Can Avoid Their Fate.","https:\u002F\u002Flongform.asmartbear.com\u002Fproblem\u002F","longform.asmartbear.com","One tip I give software engineers who want to increase their impact on the organization is to change their Information Diet by including materials around product and business (marketing and sales). This post by Jason Cohen is a masterpiece in understanding how to create long-lasting momentum in developing your product and making it into a sustainable business.",24,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":41,"label":27,"title":42,"url":43,"domain":44,"summary":45,"timeToRead":15},1682006602,"There Are No Shortcuts: Why Showing Up in Person Is Everything","https:\u002F\u002Fbothsidesofthetable.com\u002Fremind-me-why-i-love-you-why-in-person-is-everything-dd5ba8514bc1","bothsidesofthetable.com","\"I know this sounds exaggerated but this is the life of an investor. Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company — anybody.\" -- This is an important post if you need to close a deal of significant value. Post-covid, these things are getting back to how they used to be. You cannot solve it all remotely.",[47,54,60],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":48,"label":49,"title":50,"url":51,"domain":30,"summary":52,"timeToRead":53},1682006625,"peopleware","What Complex Systems Can Teach Us About Building Software","https:\u002F\u002Fsookocheff.com\u002Fpost\u002Fsystems\u002Fwhat-complex-systems-can-teach-us-about-building-software\u002F","Fascinating read on dealing with complexity in software (accept it to start with) with three interesting takeaways: (1) \"Define a set of quality architecture principles that the organization believes in and that are systematically enforced\" (2) \"Develop quality information aggregation systems \" and (3) \"Experiment widely and encourage diversity in how we build teams and how we build software.\" -- The first two are worth a healthy discussion to better define and measure them as an engineering team.",11,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":55,"label":49,"title":56,"url":57,"domain":22,"summary":58,"timeToRead":59},1680688866,"What Idea Changed How You View the World? Here's Mine: High Agency. The 12 Best Examples (Thread)","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fgeorge__mack\u002Fstatus\u002F1642197538647445504","Showing our teammates how to act with High Agency is one of the best things we can teach them when they start their careers.",4,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":61,"label":49,"title":62,"url":63,"domain":64,"summary":65,"timeToRead":32},1681410191,"Rescuing a Project in Progress","https:\u002F\u002Fworld.hey.com\u002Fjason\u002Frescuing-a-project-in-progress-d31883f7","world.hey.com","Simple but not easy: \"The best process in this case is one that's easy to grasp and do: Stop, status, selection, focus, finish, next. This isn't about calling in reinforcements or adding more resources. This is about stopping, slowing down, eliminating the spread of attention, honing in, and driving to completion.\" -- This is why I think that Kanban methodology introduced a lot more value than Scrum did, yet got less attention and hype due to the ceremonies around it. Story Points and  Velocity are terribly misleading and of lower value than measuring and limiting Work In Progress projects.",[67,73],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":68,"label":69,"title":70,"url":71,"domain":22,"summary":72,"timeToRead":24},1682006787,"inspirational","I find mental “time travel” to be a very useful trick:  Go back 10 years and realize how amazed your younger self would be at where you are today.  Go forward 50 years and realize how much your older self will long for the challenges you’re currently facing.  Works wonders.","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002FSahilBloom\u002Fstatus\u002F1647692622469668865","",{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":74,"label":69,"title":75,"url":76,"domain":22,"summary":72,"timeToRead":24},1682006876,"The world rewards the people who are the best at communicating ideas, not the people with the best ideas.","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fhdteevee\u002Fstatus\u002F1648091493154816002",1786781349818]