Dave Paola
A hypothesis from The Cathedral and the Bazaar: the thing to watch isn't whether code is abundant, but whether the makers are.
davepaola.comTALENT ACQUISITION AND RECRUITING
On meeting attention as a leverage point — and how casually checking email mid-meeting tells your team what's actually OK at your company.
FLEET OPERATIONS AND ROUTING
A reaction to McFunley's Choose Boring Technology. Velocity is everything — and a decade in Rails has convinced me of it.
INTERNET CULTURE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Why comparing coronavirus to the flu by a single number was wrong, and why bootcamp placement rates were the wrong metric for an online program — a pattern.
CHINESE NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION
HUMAN RESOURCES AND WORKFORCE PLANNING
Postel's Law for humans: accommodate mediocre communication from others, and do not tolerate it in yourself.
LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Three choices when a Big Decision goes against you on an executive team — and why the middle path is almost always the right one.