112 / In Defense of Strategy

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Toot of the Week

Remember that technology is a tool. Use it to help yourself. — @selfcare@botsin.space

Peopleware

• The Most Powerful Law in Software (registerspill.thorstenball.com)

  Thorsten Ball explains the effects of Conway‘s Law and how you can use it to your advantage.

• At this company, we are family (pboyd.io)

  Paul Boyd writes an exit letter as if the company actually was a family.

• In Defense of Strategy (notboring.co)

  Packy McCormick on what makes a good strategy and why every startup should have one:

Software

• The single most important factor that differentiates front-end frameworks (themer.dev)

  This article showcases how change detection works in different modern front-end frameworks.

• Why the “Null” Lifetime Does Not Exist (sabrinajewson.org)

  Sabrina Jewson about self-referential types in Rust and why there‘s always a shorter lifetime.

• Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 (allthingsdistributed.com)

  Werner Vogel about the origins of Amazon S3.

Cutting Room Floor

• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com)

  Atul Gawande about the changing relationship of doctors nd their computers.