Geoff Mazeroff

Dates covered: April 20-26, 2015 (week 17 of 52)

Career

• Defining The Corporate Hierarchy (via Erik Dietrich)
• Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Software Architect (via Lifehacker)
• How to Interview Your Interviewers (via Alan Barber)
• 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Every Morning To Advance Your Career (via Lifehacker)
• Carnival Cash: The Cult of Seniority (via Erik Dietrich)
• VP of Engineering vs. CTO – The Difference and Why It Matters (via Software Lead Weekly)
• Insider advice on surviving a tech conference (via Pluralsight Blog)

Culture

• The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join (via Software Lead Weekly)
• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. (via Software Lead Weekly)
• A Culture that Attracts Quality Candidates (via Software Lead Weekly)

Management

• From Building a Marketplace to Building Teams (via Software Lead Weekly)

Productivity

• Do Your Favorite Chore First or Last to Power Through Them (via Lifehacker)

Psychology

• Make a Good First Impression by Assuming Someone Already Likes You (via Lifehacker)

Sociology

• Gervais / MacLeod 25: State- and truth-seekers, plus the emergence of the Technocrat

Software development

• Iteration Management – Post 13 – Involving Stakeholders (via Jon Kruger)
• Modern Extreme Programming (via Cameron Presley)
• Chess TDD 31: Look, We Caught a Bug! (via Erik Dietrich)

Software / technology

• Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ indexing arrives Tuesday: Are you prepared? (via ZDNet)
• .NET Rocks! 1128: Tracking Errors with JD Trask (via .NET Rocks!)
• .NET Rocks! 1129: The Evolution of JavaScript Libraries with Scott Allen (via .NET Rocks!)
• Get Windows 10: Microsoft’s hidden roadmap for the biggest software upgrade in history (via ZDNet)
• .NET Rocks! 1130: Moore’s Law Geek Out (via .NET Rocks!)
• Bad UX and User Self-Blame – “I’m sorry, I’m not a computer person.” (via Scott Hanselman)