What I read this week
7 links to help you grow, take inspiration for your own journey
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
You’ll become successful through overcoming challenges and facing your obstacles.
… but that doesn’t mean it has to lack inspiration or fun.
Here’s a few links that you can skim in under 60 seconds.
I hope it will inspire you, and on occasion help you get unstuck.
Matt Pocock on Voice Coaching, Communication, Gaming, and Teaching How to Code. A wonderful discussion on how Matt came into the Typescript and Training industry, helping engineers and companies with workshops and his stellar TS Course.
Pragmatic Objects. A nice aggregate of declarative-style design ceoncepts. Focuses more on functional and behavioral composition with late binding rather than code reuse through inheritance.
Don't "bucket" work together when planning. Resource utilization vs. continuous delivery of value. An essay into avoiding accidental dependencies between work tasks which are created as a consequence of optimising optimization and planning meetings.
How to Deal with Someone who is Verbally Attacking You! A challenging aspect of being a coach is that sometimes the person you’re sitting with is going through something tough and needs to vent. Often this is uncontrolled and unintentional, but can still impact my energy in the room if not handled.
Peopleware: 10 Minutew Book Summary. The book club is taking a break as I’m balancing my outside-work meetings. This is the next one on the list for when we resume.
Hackernews: Mocking is an Anti-pattern. We had the privilege to host Stephan Schmidt on Our Tech Journey recently. His article on testing without mocks took quite a swing at the hackernews comment board.
How to Use Engineering Metrics 📊. I’m doing a conference tour starting in September so I’m gathering inspiration from my Extreme Programming spirit animals and other eng leadership coaches.