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• How to make progress without consensus: Guiding people through misalignment
  Jackie Colburn shares some really valuable practices for making progress when not everyone is in agreement
• The slide
  Rands on sharing a story when feedback isn't being accepted
• Understanding engineers' needs 🧬
  Lara Hogan shares really valuable insights into understanding yourself, and those around you in this excellent interview, including an introduction to the BICEPS model.
• You’re not bad at public speaking, you just don’t know your archetype
  Amber Shand's archetypes for public speaking support you to think about what will work best for you and for your audience
• Stuck in the middle: Mastering stakeholder management
  Emily Tate shares her hard won experience in managing stakeholders
• Coaching: When you’re asked for your own expertise
  Neil Vass on handling being asked to step out of supporting your client to reach their own conclusions
• An appropriate use of metrics
  Pat Kua's excellent advice on introducing metrics
• Eight myths on software engineering and GenAI
  Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Margaret-Anne Storey, Travis Lowdermilk, Steven Clarke, and Emerson Murphy-Hill on the misconceptions that fit in the gap between productivity gain expectations and reality.
• Guidelines for respectful use of AI
  Camille Fournier offers some explicit guidelines that might be useful in your team
• Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
  A reminder from Sophie Alpert that how we talk about systems has a huge impact on how understandable they are
• Valerie Dryden
  Val offers no bullshit Engineering Manager coaching because there's no undo button for people
• Coaching scholarships for engineering leaders
  Full coaching scholarships for 29 engineering leaders from underrepresented groups in technology. Apply by 30th June 2026
• The normalization of deviance in AI
  "Many are hoping the “model will just do the right thing”, but Assume Breach teaches us, that at one point, it will certainly not do that. Trust No AI." — Johann Rehberger
• LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends
  Simon Willison's predictions from Jan 2026
• Astrid Korin
  Astrid is a Transformational Executive Coach who helps leaders and organisations thrive by cultivating resilience and presence from the inside out
• Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off
  When things go wrong for other people, we often underestimate how much we can learn from them, because we attribute their failure to a lack on their part
• Programming still sucks
  Steven Langroek answers the question, "What is it like to work in tech?"
• The liberating effect of “good enough for now”
  In sociocracy, a group decision is made when no decision maker for the decision has an objection. The slogan for that is that a proposal is good enough for now and safe enough to try. This is also a powerful slogan for helping make decision on your own in an uncertain world.
• Debugging the most critical relationship in your work life: How to work better with an imperfect boss
  "Great leaders aren't great because the get everything done, but because they choose what they do not do" — Lena Reinhard
• Startup CEO Succession: A Founder's Guide to Leadership Transition
  In this excellent guide, Evgeny Shadchnev walks founders through the complex personal and psychological landscape of CEO succession. From reflecting on your deepest motivations for starting the company to assessing your skills and situation to choosing a successor and executing a smooth handoff, he helps startup leaders navigate this make-or-break point with clarity and poise.
• Sally Lait: Confidence is the real metric
  Sally Lait joins Robby Russell and shares valuable wisdom about the very human work of building maintainable software and the teams that make it so.
• Faster than I could think
  Paulo André reflects on the pitfalls presented when LLMs reduce the cost of writing code
• GitHub Actions is the weakest link
  Andrew Nesbitt outlines the multitude of ways that GitHub Actions is insecure by default and gives examples of the compromises in software supply chains that this has resulted in
• GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
  "Package managers are a critical part of software supply chain security. The industry has spent years hardening them after incidents like left-pad, event-stream, and countless others. Lockfiles, integrity hashes, and dependency visibility aren’t optional extras. They’re the baseline. GitHub Actions ignores all of it." — Andrew Nesbitt
• Do I belong in tech anymore?
  Ky Decker on quitting and the spread of AI

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