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Tweet of the Week
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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!