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• 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
• They built Stepford AI and called It “agentic”
  Abi Awomosu on the gendered narratives of AI
• The Vasa
  Tom Geraghty shares some lessons to learn from the sinking of the Vasa nearly 400 years ago
• How to use one of the most valuable management tools: Active listening
  Johanna Rothman on the power of listening
• AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger.
  Anna E. Cook on what we can lose when we use LLMs to build prototypes
• The boy that cried Mythos: Verification is collapsing trust in Anthropic
  Davi Ottenheimer with another reminder that every time you hear a story from an AI companies about the dangers of their products being too powerful that your marketing bullshit detectors should be on full alert.
• Configuration flags are where software goes to rot
  Frank Denis on the negagive impact of configuration flags on maintainability
• Contracting and recontracting
  "In coaching we used to say that most problems could be solved by recontracting, and this is likely true of many, if not most, “people problems” too." — Jade Garratt
• Jessica Kerr: Software is not a craft (or an art)
  "Most of the time what we do has no impact on the world but we can still be proud of the effect we have on people" - Jessica Kerr
• The human weight of it
  Cate Huston reflects on her experience of using AI for coaching between sessions with her human coach
• The git commands I run before reading any code
  Ally Piechowski shares some neat git commands for doing some quick archeology on a project before you start looking at the code
• Asking engineers
  Luca Rossi highlights that good developer experience is almost always about removing friction and reminds us that we have a great resource for finding out what the friction is i.e. asking our engineers
• I’m an introvert. This is how I get myself to speak up.
  Wes Kao with some practical suggestions for how you can make it easier to speak up
• The human cost of 10x AI productivity
  Denis Stetskov shares lots of stats on why AI coding agents are resulting in more work for people, and a much greater risk of burnout
• The alarm that went silent
  Mike Fisher on the dangers of assuming your instrumentation is telling you the whole story

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