If you only read one thingThe More Features You Add⌠(2 minute read) The best way to increase development speed? Throw out every second feature on your roadmap, youâre not going to need it. Also: âSo in order to maximize initial sales companies build products with many features. But to maximize repeat sales, customer satisfaction, and retention companies need to prioritize ease-of-use over features. [..] For both consumers and product teams the upfront allure of more features usually wins out, but in both cases, long-term consequences await. So sail the feature-seas mindfully please.â https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2046 Tweet of the week
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Stories Iâve enjoyed this weekDonât Build AI Products The Way Everyone Else Is Doing It (17 minute read) If you donât have an AI strategy, youâre doing it wrong. If your AI strategy is âJust use ChatGPTâ, youâre doing it wrong. If AI is not transforming your company, youâre doing it wrong. https://www.builder.io/blog/build-ai Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to âblame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance,â new research finds (9 minute read) People are inventive. So we see a wave of return to office (RTO) to blame employees for bad company performance. Fighting a rearguard action. Offices will not come back except for the most famous and richest companies. https://fortune.com/2024/01/13/managers-scapegoating-workers-return-to-office/ The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know (10 minute read) The thing I miss most from home office, is no more walk and talks. Walk and talks are stimulating and because you walk side by side, non-confrontative. The best environment for talks, especially 1-on-1s. Years ago I had all my 1-on-1 one afternoon a week. Walk and talk. Going to the ice dealer, buying ice cream, going back. Next 1-on-1. Going to the ice dealer, buying ice cream. The most productive and most yummy afternoons as a manager. Walk and talks are magical. The article is about something a little bit different, but genius. I would love to participate. https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/176/ 5 Ways To Work Effectively With Someone You Really Donât Like (9 minute read) There is often someone who you really donât like. And you have to work with. And then you donât talk, because you donât like the person. Work suffers. Do this instead. 1. Demonstrate Respect 2. Maintain Perspective 3. Seek Learning 4. Be Empathetic 5. Let Go Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023 (8 minute read) Title says everything. When I ask coachees if they backup their Google drive to another location (or OneDrive) they think Iâm crazy. Iâm not. In November: âHi, my Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023.â A commentator wrote âSame itâs hard because I pay for Google Drive. An I figured their would be backups.â and when you have important data in Google Sheets: âlost sheets (files) from several years â Ouch. Writing and linting Python at scale (5 minute read) Itâs 2024 and everyone should use all available static code checkers. But people donât. Meta released a new linter for Python, Fixit 2 Fixit-Felix anyone? https://engineering.fb.com/2023/11/21/production-engineering/writing-linting-python-at-scale-meta/ curl running on 100 operating systems (11 minute read) Amazing. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/14/curl-on-100-operating-systems/ Why You Shouldnât Make Friends at Work (11 minute read) I think you need to be very mature to have friends at work. Both of you. If things go south, for many people itâs difficult to seperate job and friendship. If the friend is a direct report, and you need to let go, your friendship needs to be very good to survive. I couldnât pull that off, so I didnât hire friends. Listen to Psychology Today, but YMMV. Virtual Meeting Fatigue: Exploring the Impact of Virtual Meetings on Cognitive Performance and Active Versus Passive Fatigue (7 minute read) Small study numbers as always, but âIn this study, we challenge the commonly held belief that virtual meeting fatigue manifests as exhaustion (i.e., active fatigue) resulting from overloading demands and instead suggest that participation in virtual meetings may lead to increased drowsiness (i.e., passive fatigue) due to underload of stimulation.â https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-19786-001.html Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression (9 minute read) I state it over and over again, conditions in âThe most common class of bug the rule finds is places where developers misunderstood the precedence of operators, particularly unary operators like !, + and typeof.â Can you spot the bug? (found in Material UI, Visual Studio, Webpack and Mozilla) And this is what developers donât look at in code reviews. https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/ 10 hard-to-swallow truths they wonât tell you about software engineer job (18 minute read) Why is this important for CTOs? Take point 2: âYou will rarely get greenfield projectsâ When interviewing, I always told candidates the truth, at least 90% of it. There is boring work to do, but I try to get more interesting things in. If you over promise a job, the candidate will be unhappy in the first month and leave. The goal of recruiting is not a signed contract, but a happy and successful long term employee. As CTO there are also points in there where you can make a better day âGet used to being in meetings for hoursâ, â It will be almost impossible to disconnect from your jobâ and âThey will ask you for estimates a lot of timesâ (if you did forget, estimations are an anti pattern). 44% of US Job Postings Have Salary Information in Them (8 minute read) The future. Be prepared. http://recursivedrawing.com/ Recursive Drawing 99 : Mind blown. https://directlyapply.com/blog/an-update-on-salary-transparency-in-job-posts-november-2023 Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead (11 minute read) Iâve asked developers to write a https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/07/interviews-age-of-ai-ditch-leetcode-try-code-reviews-instead/ Join the CTO newsletter! | |
