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Why you aren’t a 10x developer… yet
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The ruthless elimination of process
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Very interesting about looking critically at the meetings/processes/backlog in your team and regularly spring cleaning to remove unnecessary pressures
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Why test first driven development matters
What future leaders can learn from the Montessori Method
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A personal highlight - looking at an early development model from ~100 years ago that’s still in use and how it can and should be applied to the workplace
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Independence
- Don’t help someone with a task at which they think they can succeed
- Don’t give feedback too quickly- allow autonomy to reflect first
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Intrinsic motivation
- Extrinsic motivation (e.g. pay) decreases productivity and results
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Respect
- Respect individuality
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Prepared environment
- Culture is not your values, it’s who you’re hiring/firing, who you’re promoting, how they’re working together
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Freedom within limits
- Tell boundaries up front
- Clarify what options are available at the start of a decision making process
- Use a freedom map to show where options are
- Maximise green on the map
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Belonging (not Montessori principle)
- Self-determination principle (picture)
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Medium.com/@simonecasciaroli (will publish blog post about freedom maps in next couple of weeks)
Writing for nerds: blogging for fun and (not much) profit
- Good remote culture requires a strong written culture
- Forces you to research and think about areas you know less about
- What one thing do you want to say?
- Who are you writing to?
- What capacity are you writing in? Programmer? Expert? Layman?
- What tense are you using?
Escaping hell: how we tamed our 3rd party libraries
- Need to make sure we’re only using 1 version of dependencies across libraries and services
- Talk mostly about dependabot and a tool the company built internally for themselves “bumper”