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The leveraged leadership of a calm calendar
Task-relevant maturity: a lens for effective management
Vision before goals
Useful models: the barbell strategy
Access-oriented DB design: avoiding the tech debt of normalized schemas
A new model for social energy
What I used to believe about happiness
Anatomy of a Job Search
Leading for proficiency versus creativity
A paradigm for developer productivity
How to invest in documentation
3 ways to construct a narrative
Handy iOS Shortcuts
Left ditch, right ditch
6 metrics for system observability
Gratitude — 2021
Types of Analysis
Completed staff work and Commander’s intent
Incident anecdote: The one with the weird A/B test
Personal productivity advice
Resiliency generator
Team values
Incident anecdote: the one where memcached crashed
Build vs. Buy wisdom from Apple and Amazon
Culture of Code podcast
Reading List (Feb-May 2021)
When to ship
Development environment trade-offs
Capacity testing: key metrics for success
Less painful roadmap reviews
Flex time and the 80% rule
Reading list
Bento: Beyond Near Term Orientation
Choosing software vendors well
Vendor Relationship HOWTO
Interview at StaffEng
Exemplary Pull Requests
Energy and Optimism