⤳ Ariel Salminen: Leading Successful Product Teams
Fantastic set of rules to guide team leads. Few meetings, lots of autonomy, async and written communication. Brilliantly simple!
Bookmarks
A record of some of the things that resonate with me on the internet, and why.
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⤳ Robin Rendle: Vibe Driven Development
It’s all about the vibes! A lot of the stuff I work on just pops in my head randomly. I mean, I do have lists of problems to solve, but every now and then I come across something else. If it feels like a good idea to me, I just go with it.
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⤳ Craig Mod: Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
A bike lover myself, I haven’t yet pulled the trigger on an electric bike. I want one now.
And on and on — bikes. Why? Because as any bike lover will tell you, to be ensorcelled by the bike is to crave one and only one thing: More bike. Each new bike is like riding once again for the first time. Exploring a city on a mamachari is different than a BD-1 is different than a Moulton. All thrilling. The bikes change, and so, too does your relationship to the pavement. My love for bikes has no categorical allegiances; if it has two wheels, and pedals, I’m interested. I want to ride them all.
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⤳ Dave Rupert: Twenty Twenty Two
An excellent write-up of how his year went. Something that inspired me to do my own write-up.
I especially like the mental health section and the description of how his brain works:
The best way I can describe my brain is as a boat with a sensitive rudder. Any thought or suggestion (internal or external) nudges the rudder in a different direction. It’s not uncorrectable, but it does divert course. Whatever I can do to lessen the nudges, the better. This all sounds negative but there’s a lot of positives that come with having a brain like this, as others know. You may forget to eat and show up 10 minutes late to an important meeting because reading a wikipedia article on whale songs took precedence, but I wouldn’t trade it for a neurotypical brain.
It’s nice to recognize oneself in something others write about themselves. I’m not alone in this world.
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⤳ Jack Cheng - Sunday #379: Back to School
This quote that he submitted to the Building Beauty course is very inspirational to me, as it’s something I’ve been thinking about lately - why I like the things that I like, and how to make stuff like that myself:
To hone my sense of beauty and deep time. To learn, in community, slower and more sustainable ways of building and making. To create spaces — both real and in my writing — that spark the soul.
Additionally from there, the founding principles of Building Beauty are also very well written as a general life advice to follow.