Dates covered: January 12-18, 2015 (week 3 of 52)
Communication
- Stop Serving the Compliment Sandwich (via Lifehacker)
- That’s a Great Question! (via Freakonomics Radio)
Culture
- Letting Go of Efficiency Can Accelerate Your Company — Here’s How (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Early Reflections on Buffer’s Switch to Working without Managers (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Case for Hiring Distributed Teams (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Don’t Leave Developers in the Dark (via Software Lead Weekly)
Management
- How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire. (via Brian Friesen)
- The Different Ways People Handle Criticism (and How to Do It Better) (via Lifehacker)
- 8 steps for engineering leaders to keep the peace (via Software Lead Weekly)
- A Letter to My Team for Review Season (via Software Lead Weekly)
Motivation
Productivity
- Make Your Dreams a Reality with the WOOP Method (via Lifehacker)
- 10 steps to turn your dreams into actual goals (via Pluralsight Blog)
- Your Best Work (via Michael Lopp)
- Track Minor Progress Like a Video Game for Better Motivation (via Lifehacker)
- Why You May Feel Short on Time (Even If You Have Plenty of It) (via Lifehacker)
Software
- Your Test Suite Is Useless (via 8th Light Blog)
- .NET Rocks! 1086: Statistical Genomics using F# with Evelina Gabasova (via .NET Rocks!)
- Your Job Is Not to Write Code (via The Morning Brew)
- .NET Rocks! 1087: HTML 5 Update with John Papa (via .NET Rocks!)
- ChessTDD 24: Cleaning Up for Acceptance Testing (via Eric Dietrich)
- They Won’t Be Interested (via 8th Light Blog)
- Today I Learned: The Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern (via The Software Mentor)
- You Want an Estimate? Give Me Odds. (via Eric Dietrich)