What is it? Build a living web of ideas–not a filing cabinet (he says, using an emoji of a filing cabinet). Instead of taking notes you never revisit, Zettelkasten helps you: Capture useful insights from what you read. Connect ideas over time to spark new thinking. ...

Symptoms You have a key person dependency and struggle to find time to generate documentation. Your onboarding process needs improvement and you struggle to find engineers free to support new staff. You have poor communication within the team You have poor code qua...

Chelsea women have just beaten Man City Women 2-1 away from home and the narrative around the game is super interesting to me in an atmosphere of criticising referees and VAR, pressure and discontent about outcomes. Man City’s opening goal was offside and should not have...

In any organization, fostering a culture that prioritizes people is essential. This means valuing each individual’s contribution to their team, promoting inclusivity, diversity, and ensuring that everyone feels respected and heard. I encourage debate and a difference of opin...

Rather than turning to teachers, sports coaches or youth group leaders, Sir Gareth said he feared many young men were searching for direction online. There, he said they were finding a new kind of role model, one that too often did not have their best interests at heart.

“These are callous, manipulative and toxic influencers, whose sole drive is for their own gain,” he said.

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Focus feels impossible right now. There is so much happening—so much awful news breaking at an unrelenting pace, so many warning signs and red flags being hoisted—that it feels like you can’t look away. At least, it feels like that to me. Which means that you’re looking at a cascade of horrors instead of the things you’re actually supposed to be doing.

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I was texting with my best friend. Her mum has cancer, and my friend is going through the brutality of watching it take her piece by piece, just as I did with my own mum 13 years ago. I was thinking about how to respond to the latest message, too personal to relay here...

Some good personal Kanban one piece flow Most importantly: GTD-style “if it takes less than 2 minutes, do it immediately.” Create todos for everything (and I mean, everything, including replying to people) that go into Inbox. Always inbox zero across Slack/email/etc. ...

Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software. It doesn’t matter how fast an individual engineer can write software. What matters is how fast the team can collectively write, test, review, ship, maintain, refactor, extend, architect, and revise the software that they own.

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Mentioned on the BBC regarding the quality of the pitch for the Women’s League Cup final at Pride Park, 15th March 2025.

16th March, the Men’s cup final is at Wembley.

Embarrassing for a major cup final to be on a pitch this bad. That Chelsea left back area looks like pure mud. Rest of the pitch isn’t much better.

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I have been producing a daily rundown using some scheduled python scripts for a while now. I use a shortcut on my iOS to alert and then open this webpage on a schedule (at sunrise). However, I am almost always end up in my RSS reader of choice so thought about how I can mak...

theo of t3.gg fame has today launched https://t3.codes

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The Financial Times’ sources say that Apple has appealed the British government’s order to the Investigatory Power Tribunal, a judicial body that handles disputes with UK security services. If accurate, the challenge is believed to be the first of its kind. The Financial ...

Apple seem to have a track record of over promising and failing to deliver on their own deadlines. At least they are working to get the quality right. Here’s a statement I got this morning from Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy, verbatim: “Siri helps our users fin...

18F was not a drain on taxpayer dollars — it was a self-funded organization operating on a cost-recovery model. Government agencies chose to work with 18F and paid for their services because they delivered exceptional value. The claim that eliminating 18F serves “efficiency” is not just wrong — it’s a deliberate misrepresentation of how the organization actually functioned.

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I have a set of questions I ask in some variation at the end of my 1:1s. What are you taking away? What was most useful to you? These two I got from my coach and I use them both at work and in my own coaching. The concrete questions are useful, but it ca...

What I’ve been listening to this month. October Swimmer - JJ72 Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones Leaders of the Free World - Elbow Don’t Leave Me This Way [feat. Sarah Jane Morris] - The Communards Karma Police (Remastered) - Radiohead Losing My Rel...

After a brief presentation about the anti-DEI proposal, Apple announced shareholders had rejected it. In a regulatory filing submitted Tuesday evening, Apple disclosed that 97% of the ballots cast were votes against the measure. APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT J...

Notes: Complete this using a broad assessment and revisit every x time period (a time in keeping with the pace of the organisation, e.g. 6 months or 2 years) Review of the 24 key capabilities of the Accelerate DevOps survey outcomes. Scoring: 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) ...

Notes: Publish this somewhere on the intranet or wiki, so it’s visible to your direct reports/teams. There should be no surprises Purpose The primary objective for each team, is to deliver on the strategic roadmap and BAU activity as required by the business and as such th...

We work in two-week cycles We constantly refine our backlog as a breakdown of our roadmap and additional work items (e.g. bugs, technical debt, process improvements). We have a golden thread from Company objectives -> Roadmap Items (Epics) -> Features -> Stor...

We optimise for learning by not rushing into code, thinking more and planning well, such that we can uncover the simplest solution to a problem eliminating waste (you ain’t gonna need it YAGNI, keep it simple KIS, maximising the work not done) We accept and welcome change, ...

We provide feedback on progress, challenges, blockers and issues early and often such that anyone is abreast of the current situation. Everyone strives and collectively collaborates for the common organizational objective, and no one has any hidden agenda We use diffe...

Speed = Cycle time & Deployment Frequency Cycle time = is a measure from the moment work starts to work being completed, by optimising for a low cycle time (typically high performing teams have a cycle time of 24 hours) then work is inevitably smaller, smaller changes a...

We work in small cross-functional teams with a focus on collaboration We have psychological safety We Encourage open and honest feedback in a caring way (see Radical Candor) We have trust (sharing vulnerabilities with the group) We Embrace conflict (utilising cons...

Amazon confirmed the removal of the book download feature in a statement to The Verge. “Customers can continue reading books previously downloaded on their Kindle device, and access new content through the Kindle app, Kindle for web, as well as directly through Kindle dev...

Introduction Organisations Sizing teams Staying on the path to high-performing teams A case against top-down global optimisation Productivity in the age of hyper-growth Where to stash your organisation risk? Succession planning ...

Introduction Lean Startup method Define Learn Experiment Leap Test Measure Pivot (or persevere) Accelerate Growth Introduction Hard work and perseverance don’t lead to success. It’s the boring stuff that matters the most Startup success can be ...

Management 101 Mentoring Tech lead Managing people Managing a team Managing multiple teams Managing managers The big leagues Bootstrapping culture Engineering management is not just about people management. Hands-on expertise gives you credibility and he...

What I’ve been listening to this month. Laid - James Someday - The Strokes Nancy Boy - Placebo Leaders of the Free World - Elbow Southside - Fun Lovin’ Criminals Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrissey Destiny Calling - James Set to Attack - Albert Hammond...