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Toot of the Week
It's so cold out, I just saw a landlord put their hands into their OWN pockets. — @ErikUden@mastodon.de
Peopleware
- An Unreasonable Investment (randsinrepose.com)
Michael Lopp about the value in investing in other people.
- How to make your team read your mind (zaidesanton.substack.com)
Anton Zaides about the value of making a Manager ReadMe, including his real document.
Software
- We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened (blog.alexewerlof.com)
Alex Ewerlöf about the effect of implementing Tech Debt Fridays.
- SIEVE is simpler than LRU (cachemon.github.io)
Yazhuo Zhang introduces a new caching algorithm, which is supposed to outperform the most popular ones.
- What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
Rob Pike held the closing talk for GopherCon 2023, speaking about what they think Go did right or wrong—this is the blog post version.
Cutting Room Floor
- 10 actually good things that happened in 2023 (vox.com)
Izzie Ramirez, Oshan Jarow, and Kenny Torrella collected ten positive news stories of 2023.
- What’s in My Bag, 2023 (ma.tt)
Matthew Mullenweg shares what’s in their bag at the beginning of 2024. I love these kind of posts!
- Do you dislike small talk? (thequietlife.net)
Susan Cain about tactics to skip the small talk no one likes.
- Amazon's Silent Sacking (justingarrison.com)
Justin Garrison talks about the tactics Amazon uses to let go of employees without severance of mass layoffs.
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