Dates covered: January 5-11, 2015 (week 2 of 52)
Career
- Uncertainty Is Not the Same as Risk (via Cameron Presley)
- Do Elite Software Developers Exist? (via The Morning Brew)
- How My New Pluralsight Course Can Help You (via Eric Dietrich)
- You Are Not a 10x Developer (via Phillip Andreason)
- Engineer Antipatterns (via Cameron Presley)
- Is This Problem Worth Solving? (via Eric Dietrich)
- Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson) (via Software Lead Weekly)
- A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Reid Hoffman (via Software Lead Weekly)
Communication
- A Second Chance to Make the Right Impression (via Lifehacker)
- On Being Nice
- Fixing a Dreaded Daily Scrum (via Cameron Presley)
- How to deal with negative co-workers (via Pluralsight Blog)
Culture
- Why Company Culture Matters (via Pluralsight Blog)
- A Mile Wide, An Inch Deep (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Improving the quality of your company’s thinking (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult!?#@% (via Software Lead Weekly)
- There Are No B Players (via Software Lead Weekly)
Health
Management
Motivation
Productivity
- Take control of your priorities: Your to-do list is not a dumping ground (via ZDNet)
- How to Learn Efficiently (via Lifehacker)
- Deep Habits: Three Tips for Taming Undecidable Tasks (via Lifehacker)
Software
- Why Your F# Evangelism Isn’t Working (via Eric Sink)
- .NET Rocks! 1083: The Google Cloud with Brad Abrams (via .NET Rocks!)
- Composition Root Reuse (via Cameron Presley)
- .NET Rocks! 1084: The New Sharepoint Developer with Sahil Malik (via .NET Rocks!)
- An Example of Preparatory Refactoring (via The Morning Brew)
- .NET Rocks! 1085: Different Databases with David Simons (via .NET Rocks!)
- ‘Interface’ Considered Harmful (via Uncle Bob)
- Stop More Bugs with our Code Review Checklist (via Cameron Presley)
- Sacrificial Architecture (via Software Lead Weekly)
Technology
- CES 2015: Intel introduces Compute Stick with Atom quad-core CPU (via Randy Dodgen)