{"id":2859,"date":"2019-07-27T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T06:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2019-07-27T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T06:47:34","slug":"links-7-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/27\/links-7-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 7-27-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/spidey-sense\/#fnref-4321-2\">Spidey-Sense &ndash; Rands in Repose<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;The colorful phrase is &ldquo;shit rolls downhill.&rdquo; The inversion of that statement is also true: &ldquo;fires burn faster uphill.&rdquo; The further you are up the organizational chart, the further you are up the hill, the more fuel there is for the fire. Teams often successful extinguish small fires before you ever see them, but the ones that get to you are burning, and they are burning hot and often unstoppable.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/management\">management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/leadership\">leadership<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/spidey-sense\">spidey-sense<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/craigmod.com\/essays\/fast_software\/\">Fast Software, the Best Software &mdash; by Craig Mod<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;Speed manifests in the language &mdash; the literal words &mdash; of software, too. In recent years, macOS dialogs for closing an unsaved file have shifted from &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Save, Cancel, Save&rdquo; to &ldquo;Delete, Cancel, Save.&rdquo; This is only my opinion, but &ldquo;Delete, Cancel, Save&rdquo; makes less sense than &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Save, Cancel, Save.&rdquo; The option to &ldquo;delete&rdquo; implies something as having once been saved. Did I save this and forget I saved it? Or did it auto-save?&quot;  Same.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/design\">design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/software\">software<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/performance\">performance<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobian.org\/2014\/mar\/18\/unlimited-vacation\/\">The limits of &amp;quot;unlimited&amp;quot; vacation | Jacob Kaplan-Moss<\/a><br \/>      I&#8217;ve been at companies that had it and didn&#8217;t have it&#8230; I prefer it but with the equitable system described here (tracked but unlimited, encouraging employees to take it, setting clear expectations on what is normal).<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/vacation\">vacation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/work\">work<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/time\">time<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intercom.com\/blog\/psychological-safety\/\">Psychological Safety: 5 Ways to Create a Culture of Psychological Safety<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;Evaluate psychological safety with these 5 questions Think of a team you work with closely. How strongly do you agree with these five statements?  If I take a chance, and screw up, it will be held against me Our team has a strong sense of culture that can be hard for new people to join. My team is slow to offer help to people who are struggling. Using my unique skills and talents come second to the objectives of the team. It&rsquo;s uncomfortable to have open honest conversations about our team&rsquo;s sensitive issues.&quot;  The entire blog post is great.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/team\">team<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/management\">management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.squareup.com\/blog\/squares-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers\/\">Square&rsquo;s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers | Square Corner Blog<\/a><br \/>      Another career ladder example for engineering.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/career\">career<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/engineering\">engineering<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/management\">management<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.buffer.com\/slack-agreements\/\">The 10 Slack Agreements of Buffer &#8211; Open<\/a><br \/>      Agree with these&#8230; got scolded at my last job for sending late night slacks (&quot;you&#8217;re setting a bad example!&quot;) but I think the Buffer philosophy (&quot;You&#8217;re responsible for managing your downtime&quot;) is better.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/slack\">slack<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/communication\">communication<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/collaboration\">collaboration<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.engineering\/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4\">When a rewrite isn&rsquo;t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop<\/a><br \/>      LOVE the metrics (memory usage by size of team) at the bottom as a KPI.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/engineering\">engineering<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/metrics\">metrics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/rewrite\">rewrite<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/slack\">slack<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2019\/01\/the-hard-truth-about-innovative-cultures\">Innovation Isn&rsquo;t All Fun and Games &mdash; Creativity Needs Discipline<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;A tolerance for failure requires an intolerance for incompetence. A willingness to experiment requires rigorous discipline. Psychological safety requires comfort with brutal candor. Collaboration must be balanced with individual accountability. And flatness requires strong leadership. &quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation\">innovation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/management\">management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/collaboration\">collaboration<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/business\">business<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spidey-Sense &ndash; Rands in Repose Quote: &quot;The colorful phrase is &ldquo;shit rolls downhill.&rdquo; The inversion of that statement is also true: &ldquo;fires burn faster uphill.&rdquo; The further you are up the organizational chart, the further you are up the hill, the more fuel there is for the fire. Teams often successful extinguish small fires before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/27\/links-7-27-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 7-27-2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}