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Cool stuff I read this week: software, orgs, weird internet. https://www.chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code-is-cheap-now-software-isnt https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed https://creepylink.com https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-pro…

I really like this article.

I was glad to see that the good guys including Superman have returned to being unconflicted.

However Briefly has been launched on Product Hunt!

However Briefly I created However Briefly several years ago so I could have a personal news timeline.

Great new album from Kim Deal called Nobody Loves you more.

A minor redesign of emergesource.com.

2024, Cal Newport

2019, Alberto Savoia Great book on figuring out product market fit.

2014, David Graeber An expansive book about the history of money from the anthropological perspective.

2018, Stephen Harper I tried to read this book a few years ago when it was first released but If I’m honest it kept putting me to sleep.

One thing I need to remind myself of is to take a break when stuck.

“Canadians are generally indistinguishable from the Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.”

Here are some notes I made for myself while exploring using Sendgrid with Digital Ocean DNS.

I’ve made the case before that cicd should be a sprint zero activity.

2019, Ryan Holiday This is the second Ryan Holiday book I’ve gone through recently alongside Discipline is Destiny.

Here is a great article about testing and deployment strategies used at Uber. https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/cringey-but-true-how-uber-tests-payments I can really appreciate this story as someone who has done this despite facing criticism from both engine…

“I know that I know nothing” – Socretes In 2023 we lost one of our elder statesmen Henry Kissinger.

The Almanac of Naval Ravikant isn’t really a book.

https://newatlas.com/music/stratocaster-70-fender-factory/

One thing that people always ask me for is book recommendations.

In Surrounded by Idiots, Thomas Erikson presents the DISC personality theory.

Principles.

This post is a long time coming, but last year I had the pleasure of talking to the great Robby Russell of oh-my-zsh fame for his maintainable podcast.

Referenced in my engineering principles post.