63 / The Death Spiral Of Bullshit
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Tweet Of The Week
All humans implicitly understand the value of "a good stick" from a young age
— @no_goblins on Twitter
Culture
The 8 Jobs of Management
1 min · swyx.io
Shawn Wang summarises a chart by John Cutler into 8 jobs of management.
How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth
10 min · departmentofproduct.com
Jade Rubick explains different ways to build a solid structure that will reduce the usual growth pains.
The Death Spiral Of Bullshit
3 min · twitter.com/Austen
Austen Allred about the death spiral of bullshit; as companies grow often the need for buy-in grows, rewarding persuasiveness instead of building things.
Managing Remote Teams
3 min · twitter.com/Jobvo
Job has 20 great tips for managers of remote teams.
Tech
Write Docs Devs Love: Ten Tips To Level Up Your Tech Writing (Video)
27 min · youtube.com
Mason Egger has an amazing collection of tech writing tips, be prepared to take notes.
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
16 min · joshwcomeau.com
Josh Comeau has a nice newsletter workflow with great tools.
Fallacies of Distributed Systems
6 min · architecturenotes.co
Mahdi Yusuf covers 8 fallacies of distributed systems and how to mitigate them.
Day in the Life of Open Source Maintenance (Video)
2 hours, 30 min · youtube.com
Jon Gjengset streams the everyday of an open source developer, reviewing pull requests and more.
The Windows malloc() Implementation Is A Trash Fire
5 min · erikmcclure.com
Erik McClure tries to optimise the startup time of their JIT language on Windows and dives deep into the rabbit hole of LLVM and Windows allocators.
Cutting Room Floor
Ukraine Has Exposed Russia as a Not-So-Great Power
6 min · theatlantic.com
Phillips Payson O’Brien about realists calling Russia a "great power" and how the war exposed a different reality
Life Is Not Short
10 min · dkb.show
DKB does a fictional interview with the philosopher Seneca:
The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely more valuable.
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