Dates covered: November 24-30, 2014 (week 48 of 52)
Communication
- 27 Pre-Written Templates For Your Toughest Work Emails (via Lifehacker)
- Use One Lunch Hour to Network Instead of Your Usual Routine (via Lifehacker)
Culture
- Why Programmers Work at Night (from Shawn Wildermuth via Brian Prince)
- What yellow slime—yes, slime—can teach your organization (via Michael Lopp)
- People Deserve the What (via Eric Dietrich)
- How we transformed HubSpot into a Product Driven Company (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Metrics Are NOT the Only Thing That Matters in a Startup (via Software Lead Weekly)
- We Hire the Best (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Climbing off the CTO ladder (Before We Fall Off) (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Stop Trying to Incentivize Your Employees to Be More Like You (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Masimo’s Kiani on ‘good-enough innovation,’ Medtronic, Apple and 25 years of pushing the envelope (via Randy Dodgen)
Education
Psychology
- The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness (via Oliver Emberton)
- The #1 Reason Good Habits Don’t Last (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software
- Play by Play: Lea Verou (Conway’s game of life in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS)
- Chess TDD 22: Friendly Pieces (via Eric Dietrich)
- .NET Rocks! 1065 Testing Software Using PEX (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1067 Adding Search to Your Applications with Itamar Syn-Hershko (via .NET Rocks!)
Technology
- .NET Rocks! 1066 The New Digital Watch with Jon Stark (via .NET Rocks!)