Christof Damian

My year in books (according to Goodreads). 8443 pages read in 26 books.

I was lazy due to the festive season and travels.

I liked the story about Backstage from Spotify.

If you want to watch something inspiring today, I recommend the video about Germany’s Green City and Pedal to freedom.

I decided to stop posting depressing links and keep only the interesting and uplifting content.

The podcasts I enjoyed especially this week are the Lego Overboard and Open source at a crossroad episodes.

Environment news seems especially depressing at the moment.

This time around I enjoyed the interviews with Simon Sinek and Olive Burkeman with Culture First.

I forgot to post Podcasts for a while.

Lots of good stuff in the leadership section today, and lots of depressing stuff in the environment section.

Cargo bike with a panniers and boxes full of groceries All the leadership articles are great this week and not too long.

Source: Lens Camera Taking Photos Today I recommend the podcast about “Inclusivity and Leadership” and everything in Urbanisation.

Two great long reads this week: “The Case Against Travel” and “How to reduce the damage done by gentrification” Leadership Platform Engineering Hype - I am not a big fan of these kinds of teams either.

Group of professional cyclists passing on top of a climb in Barcelona The last two weeks I enjoyed the interview with S.A.

I am skipping every second week currently, with the result that today is a bit long.

This week I enjoyed the tiny C compiler post and quite a bit of good news about the environment.

Clearly, work hasn’t been on my mind this week.

The podcasts about the creator of LZ4 and the one about happiness science were interesting and entertaining.

I enjoyed the long read about Germany’s flat-rate train tickets and the podcast about a British cult.

Best croissant in Barcelona For some fun, watch the “Best croissant in Paris” video.

Many videos about urbanism from the last two weeks.

Some nice urbanisation going on in Barcelona.

Dog sunbathing outside a kitchen window Lots of urbanism links, but apart from that, I can recommend the “The Pillars of Integrity” podcast episode and the (German) story about a dog “Bambam”.

Short one today!

Wolf face I enjoyed the podcast about Rawls’ Theory of justice and the article about “BAU work”, which is really about much more.

Another week and too many links.

In game screenshot from Zwift I highly recommend the article about the man following the UK coastline.

The black-tailed prairie dog This week I recommend the reviews of NoSQL and “Spotify Model”.

Two podcast suggestions for you today.

I enjoyed the podcast about the seven habits book (which I haven’t finished so far) and the post about meetings for engineering organisations.

I have nearly caught up with my podcast backlog!

Happy new year!

[2022 Goodreads Challenge](https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/32679723) Like many things of 2022 my reading didn’t go to plan.

“A collection of links on various topics, including overcoming disillusionment with the executive team, handling feedback, creating incentives for managers to grow, the pitfalls of using microservices, reflections on the state of Ruby and Rails, retaining…

Catching up with my podcasts.

I was out for two weeks with holiday and then a Covid-19 episode.

Colourful AI generated mastodon Another Mastodon week.

Another round of Mastodon links.

Since Twitter has been going downhill for a while and I am mostly leaving Facebook and Instagram, I have been searching for an alternative.

A mixed bag of goodies this week.

A few articles about writing stuff down this week.

I forgot about the bottleneck series, the new part about Product v Engineering is nice.

AI generated Image, cyclists near a road leading to a city The second part of the interview with Meri Williams is interesting.

Podcast edition!

Many topics this week.

AI art: lady in front of cityscape Two week of links again.

AI generated art of modern, but run down office building Quiet week.

non-alcoholic cava This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Culture AMP’s data and the one with Daniel Pink about regret.

Two weeks worth of links.

Some good long reads today: The classic “Give Away Your Legos”, how to slowly kill your org, Why Spotify Squads are a Failure and Bicycle Graveyards.