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Everyone is wrong about “Love Languages.” Here’s why. - Big Think [Gary] Chapman grouped these types into five distinct “languages.” Words of affirmation: spoken expressions of appreciation or compliments Quality time: spending time together with undivided attention Acts of service: doing chores or other tasks for your partner Physical touch: ranging from hugs and holding hands to sexual acts Receiving gifts … Individuals can discover theirs by taking a 30-item quiz, available online....

Do you work at a tech company? | Irrational Exuberance [for engineers] a technology company is one with a strong engineering culture and empowered engineering leadership. Not the business model, not the legal definition, not “pure” innovation, but having a place at the table and being a table you want to sit at. how do you determine if a company empowers and supports their engineering organization? … CEO’s background … … ratio of engineering to total headcount … … engineering representation in the senior leadership team … … titles and seniority across organizations … … extent and quality of their engineering brand efforts … navigate your network … [and ask] … ask questions … of the their engineering culture to … different interviewers …

All you need is Wide Events, not “Metrics, Logs and Traces” … when it comes to the distributed systems at scale what’s more important is an ability to “dig” into data - “slice and dice” it, build and analyse various views, correlate, search for anomalies… And systems that offer all of this do exist. Wide Event is just a collection of fields with names and values, pretty much like a json document....

Difftastic, a structural diff Difftastic is a CLI diff tool that compares files based on their syntax, not line-by-line. Difftastic produces accurate diffs that are easier for humans to read.

Risk Based Prioritization This guide serves as a crucial companion for cybersecurity professionals, offering an in-depth understanding of how to effectively prioritize vulnerabilities in the digital landscape.

Lean Value Tree | Open Practice Library The LVT follows a Top-Down framework: Vision > Strategic Goals > Bets > Initiatives. A company’s vision is broken down into a number of strategic goals, which are then defined into a number of bets, out of which value streams and initiatives with specific, targeted outcomes drive achievement from the bottom up. Strategic layer Ambitious Mission — What is our destination as an organisation?...

The impact of electronic monitoring on employees’ job satisfaction, stress, performance, and counterproductive work behavior: A meta-analysis - ScienceDirect Based on our findings, electronic monitoring has a detrimental impact on employees as well as organizations. Employees perceive reduced job satisfaction and increased stress when monitored. On an organizational level, it is likely that there is no gain in employees’ performance but increased deviant behavior. These results question currently existing justifications for the use of electronic monitoring....

Why Building a Culture from the Top Down Fails Lack of Employee Buy-In Disconnect from Reality Limited Innovation Reduced Employee Engagement Resistance to Change Lack of Adaptability Erosion of Trust Inequality and Hierarchical Structures One-Size-Fits-All Approach Cultural Mismatch High Turnover A culture that emerges organically from the collective values, beliefs, and behaviors of the workforce is more likely to be embraced, enduring, and aligned with the organization’s objectives.

💼 An Engineering Leader’s Job Search Algorithm If you do nothing else from this guide, please: Use employee referrals to get your application noticed. Participate in practice interviews to level up your interviewing skills. Always negotiate your offer. Remember that job searching is hard, but your new team is excited to have you join–they just don’t know it yet! Communicating Impact For each job on your resume, you’ll want one or more bullet points that outline what action you took, what you achieved, the impact it had, and perhaps the tech that was used....

The thread - Josh Bernoff What is the thread? It is the throughline of any blog post, essay, or book chapter. The point Setup Reasoning Exploration The point Start with the end in mind. What is the point? Write the title and the lede based on that. Then, the setup. What is the problem? What is have I noticed? Then, reasoning. Examples. Stories. Structures and frameworks. Subsidiary points. Then some additional richness....