Much of what is linked here is from these two sites.
- Rands in Repose
- Canopy (formerly Know Your Company, Know Your Team)
- Being Geek — Book
- Stables and Volatiles — Take crazy risks
- Busy is an Addiction — The dubious value of being busy
- An Ideal Conversation — Predicting the social weather
- The Song of the Introvert — You are new data
- Infinite State — The absolute best kind of state out there
- An Introduction to You — You are a complex concept
- The Process Myth — Insist on understanding
- Free Electron — The single most productive engineer
- We’re Doomed — Software development inflection points
- Managing Humans — Book
- The Rands Test — Start here
- A Toxic Paradox — Real change is hard
- A Disclosure — Trust so you can scale
- The Larry Test — Are we done?
- Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence — In silence, you can assess
- Don’t Be A Prick — A management style that scales
- Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes — And that’s just you
- Entropy Crushers — Do you want to be an engineer?
- The Wolf — Dictating their own terms
- Shields Down — Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
- Why we don’t speak up at work
- Who I want to work for
- How do you become a bad boss? Make the little trade-offs
- How to know when you’re slowly but surely becoming a bad manager — The 12 signs
- How to deliver negative feedback well — The 4 things that good managers do (that bad managers don’t)
- 7 ways of giving feedback that encourage change — Avoid the shit sandwich
- The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster — A distinct lack of drama
- Friction, Pain, and Failure — Then consequences will become obvious
- You’re Not Listening — The world knows a lot more than you
- Lost in Translation — Learn schmearn. I'm a genius.
- Triggers — Blind, piercing rage
- No Surprises — What you need to do next
- 10 Mistakes You Should Avoid During Your One on One Meetings
- Stop Ignoring Your High Performers — They are people too
- The good people are your canary — Dealing with toxic jobs
- Someone is Coming to Eat You — Faster than you
- I Have a Hunch — We miss engineering
- Seven Plus or Minus Three — Avoidable high fructose random shit minutes
- The Old Guard — Comfortable chaos into legitimate chaos
- The Culture Chart — We must not ship crap
- Secret Titles — Osmosis hallway guy
- The Mentor Manifesto
- Microaggression and Management
- Some notes on culture
- What Google Taught Me About Scaling Engineering Teams
- Why Managers Are So Bad at Recognizing Good Ideas
- The Dead Sea Effect
- The five types of communication problems that destroy company morale
- The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
- Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team
- A Glimpse and a Hook — You've got 30 seconds
- A Brief Glimpse — A sea of mediocre resumes
- The Sanity Check — Stalk your future job
- Ninety Days — Say something really stupid
- The Great (Incorrect) Disappointment — People don’t believe what they have not seen
- Wanted — Hire for your career
- The Diving Save — Do you really want to do this?
- This is why you never end up hiring good developers — You are looking for the wrong things
- How to Run a Meeting — Rules so people know when to talk
- Bits, Features, and Truth — Gives those forces a proper name
- The Twinge — Amorphous moments of clarity
- The Screw-Me Scenario — Paranoia is a lot of work
- Agenda Detection — Players and pawns. Pros and cons.
- New managers, 7 things to consider when you run your first team meeting
- The Crisis and the Creative — Investments in an uncertain future
- A Deep Breath — A deliberate moment of consideration