Tara Seshan:

For years, communicating tradeoffs to senior leaders was one of my biggest challenges. While presenting the pros and cons between two priorities, I’d somehow always end up committing to doing both, and in less time than I had planned. As you’d expect, this usually went … badly. I’d burn myself out or, worse, burn out my team.

But when I started managing, I finally understood why I had been so ineffective at it. Sitting on the other side of the table, I watched others make the same mistakes I had. I realized I hadn’t been framing tradeoffs correctly.

John Brayton:

Similarly there is a new optional Next Article menu item for the swipe left menu of the article view on iPhone and iPad. To enable it, open the Settings screen, select Articles under Basic Options, and turn on Next Article under Basic Actions.

I tend to do a continuous scroll through my unread article list each day on my phone and often want to skip over long articles I’m not interested in.

This new action does the trick.

I’ve used this a few times now and it’s pretty ace.

I use Moom for window management on macOS.

Version four has loads of new features I’m keen to try.

Charity Majors:

Success in business is what earns you the right to devote more time, attention, and resources to cultural issues, and to experiment with things that matter to you.

One of the most common ways that leaders fail is that they get so bogged down in the daily chaos of running the company, managing a team, raising money, responding to crises and scoring OKRs is that they struggle to keep the focus zeroed in on the most important thing: succeeding at your mission.

Jim Grey:

Relationships matter if you want to advance. It took me until about ten years ago to start to understand how building relationships across any company I work for is critical if I want to move up, and even remain employed when times are tough. I’ve found that being relentlessly helpful to others, even in things that aren’t strictly your responsibility, keeps you as someone everybody wants on the team. And when you push for a promotion, you have a base of people across the company who think you’re awesome. It greases the skids.

Six hours of SG lore for all you Knights of the Soundtable.

Dynomight:

Time seems to speed up as you get older. And you wonder—is it biological, or is it because life had more novelty when you were a child? Travel partly answers this question—with more novelty, time slows way down again.

Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin:

In addition, people often conflate hierarchy with bureaucracy because they often expand in tandem. All else being equal, 50 people will always need more meetings, documentation, and approval processes than five. Nevertheless, it’s possible to reap the positive aspects of hierarchy in a growing startup without suffering from the downsides of too much bureaucracy. Maverick managers get into trouble when they ban hierarchy in the hopes of minimizing bureaucracy, but unleash chaos instead.

Roberto Vitillo:

Putting the options in a single place and seeing them contrasted with each other will help you develop new options and ultimately make a decision.

Little gems strewn within this wide ranging discussion on engineering management.

Mary C. Murphy on the culture around growth mindsets.

Looks like Fuji continues to improve the autofocus and in-body image stabilization on these larger sensor cameras.

I love my GFX100S but this review is triggering upgrade vibes in me.

A sane approach to supporting anonymous questions with teams.

James Stanier:

Instead, you should think about your career like Tarzan swinging through the jungle. Tarzan starts at one tree and knows that he has an ultimate destination, but the path to get there isn’t immediately clear: there are hundreds of different trees that he could swing to. He doesn’t know which one is the right one at any given time. He just has to trust his instincts and his general sense of direction and then progress to the next vine, and then the next, and then the next.