RIF Notes #34

“One of the greatest ways to avoid trouble is to keep it simple. When you make it vastly complicated — and only a few high priests in each department can pretend to understand it — what you’re going to find all too often is that those high priests don’t really understand it at all…. The system often goes out of control.” -Charlie Munger

• Give 40, Take 0 – “Companies protect a lot of things, yet many of them are guilty of one glaring omission. Too often, there’s something they leave wide open and vulnerable: their employees’ time.”
• Fire And Motion – “What drives me crazy is that ever since my first job I’ve realized that as a developer, I usually average about two or three hours a day of productive coding”
• Data Driven: What Amazon's Jeff Bezos Taught Me About Running a Company
• When to Mock – Advice from Uncle Bob
• Worry is the most useless emotion – “Remind yourself that the present is real — the future isn’t.”
• Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
• Engineering Managers Should Code 30% of Their Time
• Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects
• The Secrets of Database Change Deployment Automation
• Engineering Management: Shaolin Style – “You job is no longer to optimize your output, but to optimize the output of your group. Don't be the genius with a thousand helpers”
• Richard’s Top 10 Rules for Meeting Organizers