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Hi! Late edition ✌🏻

Toot of the Week

They should put HTML in the browser— @davatron5000.bsky.social

Work

• Facebook's Little Red Book (map.cv)

  Matthew A. Parkhurst got hold of a Facebook-internal indentity-preserving book from 2012 and scanned it for you.

• How to Grow Professional Relationships (tej.as)

  Tejas Kumar shares a model for professional relationships and advice how to navigate them.

Software

• I don't know how to build software and you don't either (seangoedecke.com)

  Sean Goedecke argues that when we‘re making technical decisions, we need to keep in mind that opinions are often anecdotal.

• Egoless Engineering (egoless.engineering)

  Dan McKinley about ego in engineering jobs and how to build efficient teams by giving ownership and collaborating.

• Storing times for human events (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison gives advice on how to store times for events created by humans.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Art of Long-Term Thinking in a Short-Sighted World (joanwestenberg.com)

  Joan Westenberg about the human bias to choose short-term over long-term gains and why we should think more in centuries.