Reading List Week 42 2024

This is a slightly edited version of a weekly post I share in one of the internal systems at $work.

The idea is that I collect some of the things (related to work) that I read over the week, put them together with a terrible joke, hit publish, and hope to stay employed.

These are the links I shared corresponding to week 42.

• How Hard Should Your Employer Work to Retain You? I’m a big fan of Charity’s writing, and this one does not disappoint.
• Stables and Volatiles. There is a wider discussion to be had about “rockstar developers”. Today is not the day for that discussion though.
• Ground Rules of Fairness at Work. Sharing without comment.
• Introducing Netflix’s TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer I always find system design interesting.
• That’s Not an Abstraction, That’s Just a Layer of Indirection. Speaking of systems design…
• Liberating Structures Menu. I had never heard of any of this before, but I found this enticing: Five conventional structures guide the way we organize routine interactions and how groups work together
• Scaling R&D to thousands of people without dedicated QA. Not really a read, as it is the recording of a talk, but still highly recommended.