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
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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
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• Metrics

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• One to ones
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• Pairing
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• Remote working
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• Security and compliance
• Software development
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• Testing
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Recently added links

• How we hire AI-native engineers now: our criteria
  Alex Ding, Alyah Sablan, Chris Marty and Vinay Perneti share their views on the skills to hire for now
• An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
  Lenny's interview with Simon Willison about the state of AI in April 2026
• AI 'aha' team meetings
  Lara Hogan's suggested format of a regular show and tells for your team to share learnings and aha moments about how they are using AI sounds worth a try.
• Autonomy is overrated: Why alignment beats autonomy
  Martin Dalmijn on how autonomy is often misunderstood in agile development
• AI and the human voice
  Giles Turnbull on the pitfalls of AI and writing
• ‘Addictive’ agentic coding has developers losing sleep
  Rather than saving time, AI tools often intensify work. Research shows a significant rise in “out-of-hour” commits and weekend productivity, leading to cognitive overload and physical exhaustion.
• Clement Pickering
  Clem works with people at all stages of their leadership journey, whether you’re just starting out in tech, have taken on a team lead role for the first time, or are at a senior leadership or executive level.
• Every Engineer Is a Manager Now 🤖
  "Writing the code is only a tiny part of software production. Most of it is deciding what to build, working with other humans. AI takes the friction and the microaggressions out of large-scale refactoring — it’s fantastic for automatable, verifiable tasks. But you still have to make decisions." — Chris Lattner
• Clear Is kind. Unclear Is unkind.
  Brené Brown on the importance of having tough conversations
• Cate Huston
  Cate loves working with Staff+ engineers figuring out how to scale their impact, and engineers stepping into leadership roles. She also loves to work with engineers in a time of transition or pressure, helping them move to a place of empowered choice.
• Interviewing developers: the FutureLearn way
  Matthew Valentine-House shares how we interviewed engineers at FutureLearn. In retrospect, I regret the precise format. It was too much stress and too long for some candidates and we made it much shorter after this. But I stand by the general principle of making it as much like the work as is possible.
• AI and the Future of Work: Liberation vs. Control
  "The positive link between AI use and autonomy disappeared entirely once existing workplace conditions were taken into account. In other words: AI does not automatically liberate or oppress. It amplifies whatever system it is plugged into." — Pim de Morree
• The software engineering identity crisis
  Annie Vella shares insights into the difficulties that many of us are facing as roles change in the context of LLMs getting better at coding
• Using the ladder of inference to make better decisions
  The ladder of inference is a great reminder of all the steps we take between data and conclusions
• Interview coach skill
  A Claude Code-based interview coach that covers the full job search lifecycle — from JD analysis and resume optimization through mock interviews to post-offer negotiation.

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