Dates covered: September 22-28, 2014 (week 39 of 52)
Culture
- The Narrative Fallacy: Why You Shouldn’t Copy Steve Jobs (via Lifehacker)
- Developers are calling it quits on polyglot programming (via Brian Friesen)
- Five Questions I Wish I’d Asked Before Quitting My Job for a Startup (via Lifehacker)
- Brown Box (inside an Amazon.com distribution center) (via Radiolab)
- Squad Health Check M0del – Visualizing What to Improve (via Rich Rogers)
- Designers + Engineers + Empathy = Greatness (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Spotify Engineering Culture (Part 2) (via Software Lead Weekly)
- This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The High Cost of Freelancing (via Cameron Presley)
Economics
Management
- Most People Don’t Under-Perform, They’re Under-Led – 5 Ways Leaders Sabotage Performance (via Phillip Andreason)
- It’s Not a Promotion – It’s a Career Change (via Rich Rogers)
Psychology & communication
- Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Why You Should Teach What You Know, Even If You Aren’t an Expert (via Lifehacker)
Productivity
- The Reasons People Don’t Follow Their Passions, and What You Can Do (via Lifehacker)
- How to Use Technology to Get Through Your Reading List (via Lifehacker)
- A Step by Step Guide to Using Trello for Team Retrospectives (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software
- .NET Rocks! 1038: Node and sails.js with Mike Hostetler (via dotnetrocks.com)
- Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (via Reid Evans)
- What happens to Windows 7 on October 31, 2014? (via ZDNet.com)
- .NET Rocks! 1039: More CSS than JavaScript with Trevan Hetzel (via dotnetrocks.com)
- .NET Rocks! 1040: Contributing to F# with Mårten Rånge (via dotnetrocks.com)
- Opening Word is Software Development Fail (via Erik Dietrich)
- Chess TDD 16: Finishing Bishop Blocking (via Erik Dietrich)