Dates covered: September 29 – October 5, 2014 (week 40 of 52)
Business
Career
- The Career Advice You Probably Didn’t Get (via TED)
- 5 Mistakes to Avoid in Your One-On-Ones With Your Manager (via Lifehacker)
- A useful oversimplification: Eaters vs Bakers (via Cameron Presley)
- The Power of Knowledge (and What You Need to Harness It) (via Lifehacker)
- Have a Cigar (via Eric Dietrich)
- Jason Evanish : Books (via Software Lead Weekly)
Culture
- After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF (via Eric Himmelreich)
- The makers of WordPress learned years ago that the ultimate office perk is not having an office (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How We Hire Developers at Tree House (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Before the Startup (via Software Lead Weekly)
Economics
- Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (ROI for benefiting humanity) (via Freakonomics Radio)
Management
- 5 Tips for New Team Leaders (via Lifehacker)
- WIP and Priorities (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Being A Good Leader Is NOT Up To You. (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Moneyball Approach to Building a Software Team (via Software Lead Weekly)
Motivation
Productivity
- How to be the most productive person in your office — and still get home by 5:30 p.m. (via Glenn Stovall)
- Here’s The Schedule Very Successful People Follow Every Day (linked from the above article)
Software
- Unit Testing DateTime.Now Without Isolation (via Eric Dietrich)
- Beauty of Testing (via The Morning Brew)
- Should I Follow the Normal Path or Fail Early? (via Phillip Andreason)
- .NET Rocks! 1041: Making .NET Perform with Ben Watson (via .NET Rocks!)
- Chess TDD 17: Implementing Piece Movement (via Eric Dietrich)
- .NET Rocks! 1042: Hybrid Mobile Development Update with Lino Tadros (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1043: Tax and Coders with Steve DelBianco (via .NET Rocks!)