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Welcome back to this week’s Rough Terrain! Last week’s edition about the Bacon Protocol and their effort to disrupt mortgages was my most shared and commented on article. So clearly I did something right! The downside is that making a monster of an article like that one isn’t something I can regularly do. I’m working on my next big one which will be about the future of work and how technology is changing the dynamics of team behavior. But it’s taking some time to marinate and write!
(stupid family and work with their NEEDs, don’t they know I have internet strangers I need to impress???)
This week’s article is a themeless smorgasbord of stuff I liked. Hope you enjoy!
The world is changing, evidenced in one tweet:
Book recommendation: Ask Your Developer, by Twilio’s CEO Jeff Lawson. A love letter to the power and creativity of software engineers. But also a plea to those who manage/influence their work to unleash that power and creativity. To those not in software, engineers get typecast as rigid and analytical. But in reality, my experience matches Lawson’s. I’ve found many software engineers to be incredibly creative folks who chafe under the kind of systems that treat them like assembly line workers. Give it a read! Oh, and for the love of God, microservices!!!
Remember competitive tag? Well, there’s also competitive “don’t-let-the-balloon-touch-the-ground”. Turns out the games I can go pro with are also the games my kids and I play! Who need’s football?
My daily breakfast is a smoothie. I used to shove a bunch of kale in there, because while disgusting, supposedly it’s good for you. Kill it with the flavor of other ingredients and you can bear it. Then I found this stuff, which lets you put a ton of kale (or spinach) in the smoothie with ease by pre-processing it into a power. Now, should I be offended that it’s marketed as a way to trick kids into eating the vegetables? Probably. But screw it, I’ll give some to my kids and some to me too.
Ndamukong Suh wins the internet. For the unaware, he’s an elite defensive player in the NFL (that’s a type of sportsball)
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