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Joined March 2008
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🧵Surround yourself with compounders.
Imagine you have a friend who makes you laugh every day. After a week, you're happier. After a month, you're funnier too. After a year, YOU make others laugh.
That's a compounder - they don't just help once, they keep multiplying the good. 👇
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Flowers are pretty but die quickly.
Trees start small but grow massive over time, giving shade, oxygen, and more seeds for new trees.
Compounders are like trees - their positive impact grows exponentially. 📈
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"Software Development is a team sport and great teams build great software. You can have the best and the smartest engineers on the team, but if they don’t work together, they will not be delivering the actual value."
newsletter.eng-leadership.co…
"At companies building world-class products, product-minded engineers take teams to a new level of impact."
blog.pragmaticengineer.com/t…
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Giannis Vrentzos retweeted
new post: @rouanw has tried an approach that uses pull requests in a style that's friendly to Continuous Integration: classifying changes as ship/show/ask
martinfowler.com/articles/sh…
"A great leader is someone who can connect the dots, bring together a team, and form a consensus to move forward towards the best option."
medium.com/swlh/effective-pe…
When asking for feedback:
- Be specific and timely
- Provide a reason for the feedback
- Prepare the feedback-giver
- Persist!
You’ll notice the benefits as soon as you try.
smallbigideas.substack.com/p…
0/ Humanizing Peer Reviews [A Thread 🧵]
Many organizations struggle to implement an effective review program. Many of the barriers to successful peer reviews are social and cultural in nature, not technical.
Key points 👇
23/ Watch out for culture killers, such as singling out certain developers for the humiliating "punishment" of having their work reviewed.
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24/ Source: processimpact.com/articles/h…
Thanks @imgersonr for recommending the article!
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