TWH#S9: What I Read This Week

The Sunday Edition #9

Welcome to another TWH Sunday Edition. 👋

Kick back and enjoy these 5 good reads. ☕️

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(Total reading time: 26 min)

✍️ Quality Is Systemic

(Jacob Kaplan-Moss • 2 min read)

“Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance. That is: a group of mediocre programmers working with a structure designed to produce quality will produce better software than a group of fantastic programmers working in a system designed with other goals.”

✍️ Accountability is Not Blame

(Kent Beck • 4 min read)

‘Accountability also works as a strategy for the relatively empowered person in a relationship. Imagine that CEO saying, “A year ago I saw this information & made that decision. Six months ago I saw this information & made that decision. Now this is the information & I’m choosing to lay people off.” I’d trust that explanation (& that person) far more than folks spouting off about changing macro conditions.’

✍️ From Politeness to Partnership: Embracing Conflict Drives Effective Collaboration

(Lisa Gill • 5 min read)

“When conflicts arise, we tend to either argue and try to win or avoid (consciously or unconsciously) the conflict altogether by trying to be professional and polite and get on with things. However, tiptoeing around conflicts consumes significant amounts of energy that could otherwise be directed towards innovation, problem solving, and creating value.”

✍️ When programming is gone, will we like what's left?

(Forrest Brazeal • 7 min read)

“Anyway, the other thing that AI is going to do is turn a lot of people into shape rotators in title, but wordcels in function--and probably in salary too. It might be good to start getting mad at that idea now, so you're accustomed to it when it gets real.”

✍️ The Duck-Rabbit & the Polarities of Leadership

(Richard Hughes-Jones • 12 min read)

“The interdependence of a polarity requires both/and thinking. If we ignore one in light of the other over the long term, we end up in a bad situation. The emphasis here is ‘over time’: it might be possible to focus on just one pole in the short term, but in the long run, if we want to be successful, we’ll need both.”

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