/Management

35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

tl;dr: Broken into 5 categories: (1) Questions for gauging morale e.g. Who haven’t I heard from in my team? (2) Tracking team performance e.g. is each member on the team overperforming, on track or underperforming? (3) Measuring effectiveness as a manager e.g. What more can I say no to? And more.

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Startup Getting Started? Think Pragmatic Security

tl;dr: There is an assumption that security should be the main priority for a founder when getting your startup going. Think again. Security is a tool to protect your customers and your business, and a founder’s main concern is growing that business. That’s a good thing -- here's how.

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Quick Tips For Hiring Remotely

- Andreas Klinger tl;dr: Andreas discusses and addresses how we handles the 3 main issues when hiring remotely: (1) More people applying to job postings. (2) Team is in multiple locations. (3) Interviewing people with different cultural backgrounds.

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A Recipe For Self-Improvement

- Paulo André tl;dr: A formula to work on any aspect of your own self-improvement. All steps work in parallel, in a continuous loop. (1) Awareness: Being aware of a problem is not enough, you have to accept it, believe it is worth fixing, and now is the time. (2) Understanding: Asking and understanding why you act in this way. (3) Overcoming: realizing when and how your behavior is in conflict with your values and goals.

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Compose Chat Messaging Tutorial

tl;dr: Experience deeply customizable UI components powered by the Jetpack Compose framework, with built-in support for theming, right-to-left support, custom reactions, attachments, data formatting, and many more awesome features!

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Moving The Finish Line

- Will Larson tl;dr: "Executives are evaluated based on their perceived outcomes rather than actual outcomes." Will discusses this common issue and how it’s hard to force a poorly run company to become better run, but easy to make local improvements on your team. It’s a bit harder to allow those local improvements to spread organically. 

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Why Success Is Often Elusive At The Highest Echelons

- Cindy Sridharan tl;dr: "Many leaders mould the organization in their image or the image of the past workplace. Engineering leaders brought into embattled organizations tasked with stabilizing the chaos are often heavily incentivized to do this. Many a time these folks, in my experience, tend to fail harder and more often than those who try to learn the organizational ropes and tailor their leadership style to fit the organizational culture."

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Airbnb’s Microservices Architecture Journey To Quality Engineering

- Antoine Craske tl;dr: Airbnb went through this process implementing the following practices: (1) Provide infrastructure as code to improve developer’s productivity. (2) Clarify ownership and improve with tooling & observability. (3) Define a new architecture supported by organization & methods. (4) Lead a deprecation working group to accelerate the migration. Antoine discusses how each was solved.

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Resources For Leading Through Crises

- Lara Hogan tl;dr: Lara lists recently published resources for managing in a time of crises, including "Managering through terrible times," "Handling the emotional weight of 1:1s" and "When your manager isn’t supporting you, build a Voltron." Additionally listed are resources to build resilience and tactical templates.

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How Live Is Your Stream? Measure Live Latency At Scale With Mux Data

tl;dr: Beta test the new HLS Live Stream Latency metric in Mux Data for free! Understand the live streaming experience, and find opportunities to improve.

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