SWLW #448: No Code Reviews by default, Mark Zuckerberg's "Speed & Strategy", and more.

Heya,

As always, below you can read my best findings for the week -
 

This Week's Favorite

​​Mark Zuckerberg's "Speed and Strategy" From February 14, 2008
5 minutes read.

I love how Mark presents the challenges, explains the value in them (how it connects to the strategy), and calls people to join the leaders if they want to assist. This is Mark at the age of 24. Very impressive.

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Culture

You Need to Work on Your Side Project After You Buy the Domain
1 minute read.

My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face, even in this difficult time.

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No Code Reviews by Default
4 minutes read.

In the past few years, I've covered many options and tradeoffs of if, when, and how to leverage Code Reviews. It's helpful to review different perspectives as you can see what fits your team and organization. Consider what you want to measure here (quantitive and qualitative) so the team could feel it's working well.

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If You Worry About Your Startup's Competition. How to Beat Competition: (Thread)
3 minutes read.

"Customer retention is the antidote to competition." -- I should hang that on the wall and read it every day. This is also true for employee retention. Focus on making them happy and engaged.

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Basic Prioritization Questions (And When to Converge on a Solution)
5 minutes read.

Using the questions suggested by John Cutler can help set some sanity check before running to make a decision or work on a solution. Use it with your teammates to figure out when to slow down and when to move quickly.

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Peopleware

Coachability: The Overlooked Factor in People Development
7 minutes read.

Cate Huston shares tips on how to be more coachable and how to help others as a coach. I loved this insight by Cate: "To be willing to have the hard and necessary conversations, you need to accept that not everyone will like you all the time, and that it’s more effective to work on being respected in the long term. If we over-index on complaints, we incentivize blandness – but if we don’t pay attention at all, we don’t learn things that we need to know."

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How to Give Positive Feedback to Colleagues – With Examples!
4 minutes read.

"Surprisingly, the process of giving positive feedback to colleagues is the same as constructive feedback! When you hear the word feedback, what do you feel?" -- The SBIR Framework is a very powerful form to provide positive feedback. This framework can be used at work and home.

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Where Do I Even Begin? Start in the Middle
3 minutes read.

Figuring out a way to avoid the "blank page" can be extremely helpful to get you unstuck. Tobias van Schneider's insight and examples can serve you well: "When we treat the beginning as something sacred, we give it more power than it deserves. The beginning can start in the middle, or even at the end."

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And finally, inspiring tweets...

@bettinamak: convinced that buying a new notebook, in a new color, will suddenly unlock my untapped potential

@orangebook_: The secret of healthier relationships: Two people who respect and listen to each other instead of living in their own mind and making assumptions.



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-- Oren Ellenbogen.