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• Rands in Repose
• Canopy (formerly Know Your Company, Know Your Team)

Being Geek

• Being Geek — Book
• Stables and Volatiles — Take crazy risks
• Busy is an Addiction — The dubious value of being busy
• An Ideal Conversation — Predicting the social weather
• The Song of the Introvert — You are new data
• Infinite State — The absolute best kind of state out there
• An Introduction to You — You are a complex concept
• The Process Myth — Insist on understanding
• Free Electron — The single most productive engineer
• We’re Doomed — Software development inflection points

Managing Humans

• Managing Humans — Book
• The Rands Test — Start here
• A Toxic Paradox — Real change is hard
• A Disclosure — Trust so you can scale
• The Larry Test — Are we done?
• Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence — In silence, you can assess
• Don’t Be A Prick — A management style that scales
• Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes — And that’s just you
• Entropy Crushers — Do you want to be an engineer?
• The Wolf — Dictating their own terms
• Shields Down — Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
• Why we don’t speak up at work
• Who I want to work for
• How do you become a bad boss? Make the little trade-offs
• How to know when you’re slowly but surely becoming a bad manager — The 12 signs
• How to deliver negative feedback well — The 4 things that good managers do (that bad managers don’t)
• 7 ways of giving feedback that encourage change — Avoid the shit sandwich

1:1s

• The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster — A distinct lack of drama
• Friction, Pain, and Failure — Then consequences will become obvious
• You’re Not Listening — The world knows a lot more than you
• Lost in Translation — Learn schmearn. I'm a genius.
• Triggers — Blind, piercing rage
• No Surprises — What you need to do next
• 10 Mistakes You Should Avoid During Your One on One Meetings
• Stop Ignoring Your High Performers — They are people too

Culture, Teams, Mentorship

• The good people are your canary — Dealing with toxic jobs
• Someone is Coming to Eat You — Faster than you
• I Have a Hunch — We miss engineering
• Seven Plus or Minus Three — Avoidable high fructose random shit minutes
• The Old Guard — Comfortable chaos into legitimate chaos
• The Culture Chart — We must not ship crap
• Secret Titles — Osmosis hallway guy
• The Mentor Manifesto
• Microaggression and Management
• Some notes on culture
• What Google Taught Me About Scaling Engineering Teams
• Why Managers Are So Bad at Recognizing Good Ideas
• The Dead Sea Effect

Communication

• The five types of communication problems that destroy company morale
• The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
• Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team

Hiring

• A Glimpse and a Hook — You've got 30 seconds
• A Brief Glimpse — A sea of mediocre resumes
• The Sanity Check — Stalk your future job
• Ninety Days — Say something really stupid
• The Great (Incorrect) Disappointment — People don’t believe what they have not seen
• Wanted — Hire for your career
• The Diving Save — Do you really want to do this?
• This is why you never end up hiring good developers — You are looking for the wrong things

Meetings

• How to Run a Meeting — Rules so people know when to talk
• Bits, Features, and Truth — Gives those forces a proper name
• The Twinge — Amorphous moments of clarity
• The Screw-Me Scenario — Paranoia is a lot of work
• Agenda Detection — Players and pawns. Pros and cons.
• New managers, 7 things to consider when you run your first team meeting

Managing Crises

• The Crisis and the Creative — Investments in an uncertain future
• A Deep Breath — A deliberate moment of consideration