Five for Friday – March 15, 2024
How did it get to be the middle of March already? Here are a few things worth sharing this week.
- I just finished reading Hidden Potential by Adam Grant. I’ve read everything Grant has written, and this could be his best book. My highlights are extensive, but I’ll just share two quotes.
In life, there are few things more consequential than the judgments people make of our potential.
and
Impostor syndrome says, “I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s only a matter of time until everyone finds out.” Growth mindset says, “I don’t know what I’m doing yet. It’s only a matter of time until I figure it out.” - Speaking of highlights, I’ve mentioned before that I use Obsidian for all of my notes. The Kindle Highlights plugin for obsidian pulls all of my highlights into Obsidian – which means I can quickly find what I highlighted, or search my highlights for specific phrases. It’s not a lot, but given how much I read, it’s wonderful.
- Lisa Crispin has a great post this week (which I would say even if she didn’t call out the AB Testing Podcast on A look back at release engineering.
- One of the reasons a team may not need extensive manual testing is if they extensively dogfood their product. Sometimes, some portions of the product need fresh sets of eyes, so I really like this idea from Graphite on Onboarding roulette: deleting our employee accounts daily.
- And finally, I always enjoy an article that draws from Dan Pink. This post on building autonomy as a CTO makes a lot of great points.
That’s it -a busy weekend coming up in weasel-ville, but I should be back with 5 more bits of random trivia when I return.