Reading List. Week 23, 2025

Here are some things I’ve read recently, related to work, that caught my attention, shared without comment.

• Why People Really Quit — And How Great Managers Make Them Want to Stay
• The Role of Alignment
• Beyond the Gang of Four: Practical Design Patterns for Modern AI Systems
• Strategic Leniency
• We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Crisis of Middle Management in Tech
• Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend
• Why Swift’s Type Checker Is So Slow
• When a team is too big
• RDEL #95: What does effective coordination look like in distributed software teams?