- The peculiar traits of great Amazon leaders: Frugal, innovative and body odor that doesn’t smell like perfume – GeekWire
Quote: "… internal meetings at Amazon start with everyone in the room spending up to 45 minutes reading in silence as they digest detailed documents known as narratives. We write our thoughts down because we expect leaders to dive deep, said Wilke. We like this because narratives yield a very clear understanding of the thoughts of the author, and also because all of the ideas that are normally preserved in the PowerPoint notes that the speaker has are actually preserved in the narrative for al…
(categories: leadership amazon learning management work business ) - How to be perfectly unhappy – The Oatmeal
Didn’t specifically say "uncomfortable" but I think a paraphrase of this comic could be "doing hard stuff, even uncomfortable stuff brings meaning and a full life"
(categories: happiness psychology oatmeal comic humor ) - The Real Success Story of Microservices Architectures – Software Blog
Quote: "The real success stories of a microservice architecture are about how organizations that embrace small, cross-functional teams that engage with a flat, self/peer-management structure, are able to scale and innovate at levels unheard of in traditional organizational structures and do it wildly successfully."
(categories: microservices teams devops conwayslaw communication ) - Microservice Trade-Offs
It’s not all rainbows and unicorns.
(categories: martinfowler microservices design )
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