If you only read one thingHow to Do the Thing Youâve Been Avoiding (10 minute read) âJimmy [Fallon] has been interviewed many times, and often offers to answer follow-up questions. Nobody takes him up on it, but I did. And to Jimmy, that wasnât a burden â it was a sign of thoroughness. [âŚ] I started to wonder: What else do I think is bad, that other people think is good?â This happens quite often with my coachees. Recently a CTO put of promoting senior developers to team leads because he thought they would dread it. When he talked to them, theyâre joyful and happy and thought: âWhy didnât I do this earlier?â https://jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com/p/the-thing-that-seems-like-a-bad-idea-maybe-try-it Diagram of the weekInteresting insight on the distribution of remote work.
From the article âThe hottest new perk in tech is freedomâ https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/20/23762655/tech-perk-remote-work-freedom-airbnb-yelp
This episode on Youtube For Easy ListeningTogether with Etienne de Bruin Iâm discussing a selection of these stories on YouTube.
Like and Subscribe ;-) Thanks from my â¤ď¸ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM3ugGkk1cc Stories Iâve enjoyed this weekCleaner accidentally ruins decades of US collegeâs research by turning off freezer (5 minute read) So many learnings in this story. A cleaner turned off the power by switching off the circuit breaker. A freezer with 20 years of research got lost. The lab had put a lock on the power socket, so no-one could disconnect the freezer. But it made an alarm, and the cleaner thought they would need to turn the circuit breaker on to stop the alarm. So they turned it off. Iâm reminded of how a crisis happens in a startup, where people do something that you tried to prevent. Like in these SciFi time travel stories. By trying to prevent something, you start it. And why did the freezer not have a battery? If 20 years of research were in it? What is your freezer? The Unfair Game - When VC Funding Turns into an Evil Empire (9 minute read) The article claims, VC funding allows startups to do âunfairâ things. After years in startups, I think this is one of the key differences between bootstrapping and VC money. I did both. And in a bootstrapping startup, follow the law to the letter. Our competitors could do things we couldnât, they just spent $10.000 a month on for lawyers which we could not. https://dev.to/johnrushx/the-unfair-game-when-vc-funding-turns-into-an-evil-empire-1fb4 Nearly $1M developer yearly salary: OpenAI (4 minute read) It includes 2/3 stock, but $1M in a startup that already made it? https://www.levels.fyi/companies/openai/salaries/software-engineer The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office is Worse Than We Thought (14 minute read) There is still a battle raging between those that think everyone needs to go back - Google - and those that think the ghost is out of the bottle. Those that force people back have problems: âUnispace finds that nearly half (42%) of companies that mandated office returns witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated.â Read TIMEâs Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (24 minute read) Iâve talked with Etienne on our Podcast about the future of AI-interaction. What we came up with is Star Trek. No apps. No code generation. Just a general AI. And here itâs from ChatGPT CEO: âWhat will the interface look like as the technology integrates more deeply into our lives? Youâll be able to do this with a two-way voice, and itâll feel real time. Youâll be able to talk like two people doing conversations, and thatâll be powerful. You can [eventually] imagine a world where, as you are talking, itâs like the Star Trek holodeck.â https://time.com/6288584/openai-sam-altman-full-interview/ Cooklang â Recipe Markup Language (4 minute read) Some years ago domain-specific languages DSL were all the rage. Programming languages were rated by how well they would support creating DSLs (even that didnât help LISP). Now I canât hear people talk about DSLs or read about DSLs on Hackernews. I guess they were complicated to maintain, had little benefit and distracting. Who would have thought! Understanding Passkeys (11 minute read) Passkeys are coming. If you donât know about them and still think about emails and password, urgent reading! https://www.baeldung.com/cs/passkeys Is ORM still an âanti patternâ? (13 minute read) I was one of those âORM is an anti-patternâ guys. I also wrote some ORMs at the end of the 90s. Today I think: Start with an ORM, itâs so much easier (currently using GORM in Go), then migrate to something faster as you scale. Small story: The site of a company Iâve worked as CTO for crashed because an ORM was reading millions of used coupon codes to see if a coupon was used. Worked with 10 customers. Crashed with 3 million. https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Is-ORM-still-an-%27anti-pattern%27%3F Monitoring is a Pain (20 minute read) Monitoring is a pain. If you havenât started or struggled with it, this article is highly recommended. It talks about logs and log levels and metrics and many more things. https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/ How to imagine 52 factorial (3 minute read) Read it. The number is so largeâexplained in an example, not just the number printedâthat you do not believe it. âIf that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going, and when youâve filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest.â https://boingboing.net/2017/03/02/how-to-imagine-52-factorial.html How To Be An Engineer That PMs Donât Hate (6 minute read) DEAR ENGINEER, cOWN YOUR QUALITY - and other tips. https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2023/06/18/how-to-be-an-engineer-pms-down-hate.html How Platform Engineering Works (26 minute read) âPlatform Engineeringâ is the new Devops. Joke aside this article is very useful to have a better setup of your operations and development. âPlatform Engineering is the application of a Product Mindset to supporting your engineering organizationâs software delivery velocity and system stability.â This will be my new response to coachees. Yes, Secret Invasionâs opening credits scene is AI-made â hereâs why (11 minute read) Commercial show. Marvel. Opening credits AI-made. There you have it. https://www.polygon.com/23767640/ai-mcu-secret-invasion-opening-credits Itâs Not a Computer, Itâs a Companion! (12 minute read) I thought the only good thing in Bladerunner 2049 was the AI companion. Seeing how much I love our dog, itâs easy to see where the future lies. Back then though, I would not have thought that the future is so close âTodayâs bots arenât merely a step function improvement on 1:1 conversationsâtheyâre making inroads into our social lives.â https://a16z.com/2023/06/22/its-not-a-computer-its-a-companion/ Join the CTO newsletter! | |
