60 / Optimism Shapes Reality

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Tweet of the Week

The future of web looks bright. Web 1 Web 2 Web 3 Web 5 Web 95 Web 98 Web 2000 Web XP Web Vista Web 7 Web 8 Web 10 Web 11 — @elyktrix

Culture

• Optimism Shapes Reality (alexw.substack.com)

  Alexandr Wang talks about setting goals that ensure speedy execution.

• Motivating Developers to Care About Documentation (getdx.com)

  Paulo André gets interviewed about documentation and the difference in compliance and commitment.

• We're Living in a Commitment Crisis (twitter.com)

  David Perell explains that people who think they’ll be happy without obligations will rather feel “adrift” and empty. “To achieve anything meaningful, you have to make a commitment.”

Tech

• Tools for better thinking (untools.co)

  Adam Amran has collected some great thinking tools.

• Data Race Patterns in Go (eng.uber.com)

  Milind Chabbi and Murali Krishna Ramanathan describe a system in place at Uber that detected over 2000 data races in 6 months in their Go codebase.

• Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices (isthisit.nz)

  Logan Mortimer talks summarises Kent Beck’s (author of Extreme Programming) points in an interview from 2019 about software engineering practices.

Cutting Room Floor

• A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world (theguardian.com)

  Tom Lamont writes a very interesting piece about the life of vending machines, their origins and how we humans perceive them.

• We Can Do Better Than “Same, But Electric” (climateer.substack.com)

  Steve explains why electric vehicles should rethink more and not make the same compromises as vehicles with combustion engines.

• The different kinds of notes (baldurbjarnason.com)

  Baldur Bjarnason about different kinds of notes and what goals and concepts exist to help you find your perfect setup. Thanks, Ted!