References.
This is the works cited page for the website. Individual notes link to these references where they were sourced from an author’s writing.
2024.
September.
July.
June.
- Irina Stanescu, Growing Beyond Senior Levels in Engineer.
- Aria Beingessner, Mozilla’s Engineering Ladder.
May.
March.
- Eric Raymond, Basics of the Unix Philosophy.
- Yuval Yeret, 4 Metrics To Visualize and Accelerate Flow.
- Derek Comartin, Event-Driven Architecture Lost Its Way.
February.
January.
- Maxwell Zeff, There’s More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless.
- Eirini Kalliamvakou, Good DevEx Increases Productivity.
- Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale, Director Means Something.
- Jeff Haden, The Best Employees Focus on Content, Not Process.
2023.
December.
November.
- Remy Porter, The Therac-25 Incident.
- Henrique Vicente, You Don’t Need UUID.
- Neil Madden, Moving Away from UUIDs.
- Connect2id, Human-Friendly Identifiers.
- Rob Conery, A Better ID Generator For PostgreSQL.
May.
April.
- Addy Osmani, Managing Complex Change.
- Henrik Kniberg, The Resource Utilization Trap.
- Kurzgesagt, The Star That Shouldn’t Exist.
March.
- Jade Rubick, A History of Mini-Ms.
- Jade Rubick, Variations for Mini-M Management Support Groups.
- Jade Rubick, How to Implement Mini-M Support Groups.
- Jade Rubick, Uplevel Your Managers with Mini-M Support Groups.
- Jason Sachs, Why Amdahl’s Law is Misleading.
- Eric Schwitzgebel, If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious.
- KK Ottsen, They Are Preparing for War.
- Jade Rubick, Everyone Lies to Leaders.
2022.
December.
- Michael McIntyre, Goodhart’s Law.
- Basel Al-Sheikh Hussein, The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today.
- Evan Andrews, Sword of Damocles.
- Nancy Friedman, Cunningham’s Law.
November.
- Robert Lucas, Econometric Policy Evaluation.
- Benoit Mandelbrot, How Long is the Cost of Britain?
- Lieberherr and Holland, Assuring Good Style for Object-Oriented Programs.
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach.
- Doc Norton, Escape Velocity.
- Aaron Gustafson, Understanding Progressive Enhancement.
- Seth Godin, Three Kinds of Forever.
- Will Larson, Staff Engineer.
October.
September.
August.
July.
- Robert Keidel, Seeing Organizational Patterns.
- Caleb Kruse, Seeing Blue.
- “I Have Dubbed It The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon”
- Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, Programming Perl.
June.
- Russell Ackoff, From Data to Wisdom.
- Russell Ackoff, Continuous Improvement.
- Will Larson, To Lead, You Have to Follow.
- Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law.
- Susanne and Andreas Bartel, The Official Guide to the Kanban Method.
- Lyn Bond, Synthesizing.
- Abigail Bassett, The Art of Kakeibo.
- Arnold Zwicky, Why Are We so Illuded?
May.
April.
- Juvoni Beckford, Using Books to Navigate Life.
- Allen Wilson, Playing the Zettelkasten RPG Through Arbitrary Constraints.
- How, Exactly, Is Structure Supposed to Emerge?
January.
- Jakub Neander, How To Export PostgreSQL Query Output as CSV.
- AoM #756 with Will Storr, How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything.
- AoM #734 with Brandon Warmke, How Moral Grandstanding Is Ruining Our Public Discourse.
- Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems.
2021.
December.
- Society of GK Chesterton, “Taking a Fence Down”.
- AoM #762 with Michael Hyatt, Prepare Now to Have Your Best New Year Ever.
- David Gray, Liminal Thinking.
- Ron Jeffries, Story Points Revisited.
- Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path.
- Kurzgesagt, The Origin of Consciousness.
November.
- Sarah Drasner, Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager.
- David Allen, Getting Things Done.
- Christopher Sirk, The History of Kaizen.
October.
- Sarah Drasner, The Importance of Career Laddering.
- Mile Oliver, Better Short Term Goals for New Engineering Hires.
- Elizabeth Saunders, 6 Causes of Burnout.
- Martin Fowler, What do you mean by ”event-driven”?
- Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning.
August.
- Bill Burnett & Dave Evans, Designing Your Life.
- Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland, The Scrum Guide.
- Doanh Do, What Is Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)?
- Jeff Sutherland, Scrum.
- Simon Sinek, Most Leaders Don’t Even Know the Game They’re In.
July.
- Dan Pink, The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us.
- Nir Eyal, Hooked.
- Robert Burton, Where Science and Story Meet.
- Jeremiah Lee, Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals.
May.
- Nick deWilde, The Learning Loop of Knowledge Work.
- Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain Podcast.
- David Rock, Your Brain at Work.
- Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage.
- Dustin Gorski, When to Use Scrum?
- Brené Brown, Dare to Lead.
March.
- Gary Neilson et al., 10 Principles of Organization Design.
- Karla Segura Chavarría, Will Betelgeuse Go Hypernova?
- What it’s like inside of a black hole.
January.
- Watts & Hertvik, Technical Debt: The Ultimate Guide.
- Steven Rogelberg, The Surprising Science of Meetings.
- Scaled Agile Framework, WSJF.
- Greg McKeown, Essentialism.