Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

September 10, 2022

Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
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If you want to get to the bottom of a problem and of why an accident happen, people need psychological safety. This is indeed necessary if you want them to share truthfully why the accident happened in the first place. Otherwise fear will drive the conversation and hide important facts.

⭐️ How management by metrics leads us astray

A good reminder about the impacts of Goodhart's law, or even simply of measuring the wrong thing. I like the conclusion overall: it's fine to measure things but that shouldn't be the center of the decision taking and conversations need to take a larger role into it.

The world's 30 most beautiful bookshops
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Definitely a good list of places I'd love to visit and get lost into.

Quality Is Systemic - Jacob Kaplan-Moss (jacobian.org)

In our industry, we obsess too much over individual performance. In turn it means that the systems we put in place within or around our teams get neglected... this is a problem because it is what has the biggest impact on quality and performance.

First rule of the team: size
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Good points to keep in mind regarding team size. It's a delicate balance to strike in an organization.