Mike at OpTe.ch
@OpTechMike
I am @mikeoertli. I discuss tech, engineering, and engineering operations. "Engineering how we engineer."
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“Your teams are going to spend more time talking to customers, and less time purely writing code.” — @skamille on the move to product-centric ways of working for infrastructure organizations. 💡 link.medium.com/n0nb3zpCusb
Managers tell you what’s happening. Leaders tell you what’s coming.
This weekly email from @JamesClear has probably the highest value density (from my POV) of any of his Thursday emails which themselves are amongst the highest value dense emails I’ve ever seen. jamesclear.com/3-2-1/june-3-2…
The best three pages on leadership I’ve ever come across. (book is One From Many / Dee Hock)
Tobi Lutke (@tobi) is the CEO of Shopify He's one of my favorite CLEAR thinkers I spent some time in lockdown going through his interviews Here are 6 mental models I got from it THREAD...
Good stuff here - “What is an Engineering Manager Anyway?” dev.to/solidi/what-is…
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What is an Engineering Manager Anyway?
I've had the pleasure of being an engineering manager (EM) for five years. For EMs who are new, I wan...
Results = (Hard Work*Time)^Strategy Working hard is important, but working on the right thing is more important. A great strategy can deliver exponential results. Of course, the best strategy is worth nothing if you never get to work. Zero to the millionth power is still zero.
opte.ch/news/2014/3/20… -Sent from my Apple Watch 😜😂
What’s your biggest miss so far in tech? In terms of a totally wrong / bad prediction
At GitLab we have a #thanks Slack channel about.gitlab.com/handbook/commu… In the last 12 months we have 4350 messages in it thanking someone, with 397 people sending and 469 receiving a thank you. Almost everyone who works here gets thanked at some point! Thanks @leipert_io for the data.
This article about challenges with hiring engineers is EXCELLENT. hiringengineersbook.com/post/trouble-h…
The extreme human temptation to compromise on hiring (and to fail to confront mistakes) is one of the main entropic forces conspiring to ensure that great companies rarely stay that way.
"Before you make an offer to someone, think about whether you’d like to have 10 times as many people like them in your company.” - great advice from @patrickc. more here: medium.com/@collinmathild…
From the always-excellent SWLW newsletter lethain.com//career-narrat…
do things that don't scale, but don't do things that don't compound
Excellent thread.
1/ I became "CEO" at 20. I dropped out of college. I had only interned somewhere prev. Looking back, I couldn't imagine the journey that would occur from writing code all day to scaling to 300 people. I got lucky, I screwed up a lot, & had a lot of help. Here's what I learned...
Apple Releases iOS 11.2 With Apple Pay Cash, Faster 7.5W Wireless Charging, Date Bug Fix and More macrumors.com/2017/12/02/app… by @julipuli
In Safari 11 if a website (annoyingly) opens a link in a new tab and you swipe to go back then it closes the tab as it weren't one 🙌
These “best practices for distributed teams” are good practices in general. 18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/15/bes…
An excellent resource from @skamille if you’re creating a career development ladder (which I highly recommend). dresscode.renttherunway.com/blog/ladder
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