Joel Chippindale's recommended links

Links to recommended articles, books, podcasts, videos etc. on a variety of subjects.

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• Building teams

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• Career development
• Change
• Coaching
• Communication
• Culture

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• Decision making
• Delegation and empowerment
• Diversity, equity and inclusion

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• Engineering leadership

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• Facilitation

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• Generative AI
• Git
• Giving and receiving feedback

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• Hiring and being hired

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• Inspirational talks

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• Learning

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• Managing time
• Managing up
• Meetings
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Metrics

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• One to ones
• Organisational structures

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• Pairing
• Pay and compensation
• Product management

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• Remote working
• Retrospectives

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• Security and compliance
• Software development
• Speaking at conferences
• Strategy
• Stress

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• Testing
• Trust

Recently added links

• When to hire a computer performance engineering team
  Brendan Gregg's outlines the work and benefits of a performance engineering team and provides some rules of thumb for thinking about when to hire one.
• How to run a technical due diligence?
  Sergio outlines how to run technical due diligence. This is a great reminder that you need to understand the goal of the acquisition in order to do effective due diligence.
• CTO archetypes 🧩
  Pat Kua's CTO archetypes are a great reminder of the huge variation between different CTO roles
• Stop generating, start thinking
  "Where I've seen LLMs do the most damage is where engineers outsource the thinking that should go into software development. LLMs can't reason about what the system architecture because they cannot reason. They do not think. So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking." — Sophie Koonin
• 96% engineers don’t fully trust AI output, yet only 48% verify it
  "With the speed of writing code increasing due to AI coding tools, skills like critical thinking, pure problem-solving, and being good at reviewing/verifying are more important than ever." — Gregor Ojstersek
• On pressing the space bar for the cabinet
  Russell Davies with some sound advice for presenting
• Diversity, AI, and Junior Engineers 🎨
  "If you are a woman in the tech industry and you have gotten to senior software engineer, it is at least twice as hard for you as it was for anybody else... They're almost always worth more than somebody else in the same role." — Meri Williams
• When positive feedback is holding you back
  Nithin offers some useful tips for getting more actionable feedback when you are doing well in your role.
• Performance reviews are the scorecard of capitalism (and why that should free you)
  "When you can separate your strengths and career goals from that scorecard, you can step into your own growth—whether that aligns with what the organization wants, or it does not." — Cate Huston
• My AI adoption journey
  Mitchell Hashimoto shares his journey with adopting AI into his software development workflow

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