Farnam Street Principles Quote: "All that we write about, think about, and strive for at Farnam Street draws inspiration from one of these five principles: Direction Over Speed, Live Deliberately, Thoughtful Opinions Held Loosely, Principles Outlive Tactics, and Own Your Actions." In my words: think about where you’re going, live in the now, be open to changing your mind, develop your core, it’s ok to be wrong. (categories: lifeculturemanagementstrategy )
Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. Quote: "One specific tool that I’ve found extremely helpful here is an ownership registry which allows you to look up who owns what, eliminating the frequent "who owns X?" variety of question. You’ll need this sort of thing to automate paging the right oncall rotation, so might as well get two useful tools out of it!" Not the first time I’ve heard of this. Lots of other good points. (categories: managementengineeringprogrammingscaling )