Five for Friday – March 22, 2024

I journeyed into public last weekend…and caught a cold. Fortunately, I’m well on the mend, but after a whole lot of isolation over the last four years, being sick is rare – in face, other than my one time bout of COVID last August, this has probably been the only time I’ve been sick since 2019 or earlier.

Anyway – I still had a lot of time to find a few interesting things worth sharing.

• Maaret’s latest post on Urban Legends, Fact Checking and Speaking in Conferences was a good read, and it was a strong reminder to me how often folks base talks and articles on half-truths or non-researched anecdotes. Presentations (IMO) are primarily entertainment, but I think fact checking is more than worth the effort.
• I feel like far more people reference Accelerate than have actually read Accelerate. Molz wrote a fantastic post all around chapter 3 – the chapter on culture. How Culture Impacts Efficiency: Applying “Accelerate” to Game Studio Culture
• I’ve become a big fan of the writing of Hazel Weakly – I especially liked this post on Redefining Observability
• One of articles more leaders should read is this on on Fighting Loneliness with Remote Teams
• Finally, I have a lot of stories about how music and software development relate – and I believe that other than the details of tech, there are a lot of patterns in all knowledge work – so I LOVED this article on Five things Software Engineers can learn from Medicine / Dentistry

Time for me to go take a power nap – see you all next week (or tomorrow if you read the other blog).