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Rands in Repose
Canopy (formerly Know Your Company, Know Your Team)

Being Geek

Being Geek — Book
Stables and Volatiles — Take crazy risks
Busy is an Addiction — The dubious value of being busy
An Ideal Conversation — Predicting the social weather
The Song of the Introvert — You are new data
Infinite State — The absolute best kind of state out there
An Introduction to You — You are a complex concept
The Process Myth — Insist on understanding
Free Electron — The single most productive engineer
We’re Doomed — Software development inflection points

Managing Humans

Managing Humans — Book
The Rands Test — Start here
A Toxic Paradox — Real change is hard
A Disclosure — Trust so you can scale
The Larry Test — Are we done?
Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence — In silence, you can assess
Don’t Be A Prick — A management style that scales
Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes — And that’s just you
Entropy Crushers — Do you want to be an engineer?
The Wolf — Dictating their own terms
Shields Down — Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
Why we don’t speak up at work
Who I want to work for
How do you become a bad boss? Make the little trade-offs
How to know when you’re slowly but surely becoming a bad manager — The 12 signs
How to deliver negative feedback well — The 4 things that good managers do (that bad managers don’t)
7 ways of giving feedback that encourage change — Avoid the shit sandwich

1:1s

The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster — A distinct lack of drama
Friction, Pain, and Failure — Then consequences will become obvious
You’re Not Listening — The world knows a lot more than you
Lost in Translation — Learn schmearn. I'm a genius.
Triggers — Blind, piercing rage
No Surprises — What you need to do next
10 Mistakes You Should Avoid During Your One on One Meetings
Stop Ignoring Your High Performers — They are people too

Culture, Teams, Mentorship

The good people are your canary — Dealing with toxic jobs
Someone is Coming to Eat You — Faster than you
I Have a Hunch — We miss engineering
Seven Plus or Minus Three — Avoidable high fructose random shit minutes
The Old Guard — Comfortable chaos into legitimate chaos
The Culture Chart — We must not ship crap
Secret Titles — Osmosis hallway guy
The Mentor Manifesto
Microaggression and Management
Some notes on culture
What Google Taught Me About Scaling Engineering Teams
Why Managers Are So Bad at Recognizing Good Ideas
The Dead Sea Effect

Communication

Hiring

A Glimpse and a Hook — You've got 30 seconds
A Brief Glimpse — A sea of mediocre resumes
The Sanity Check — Stalk your future job
Ninety Days — Say something really stupid
The Great (Incorrect) Disappointment — People don’t believe what they have not seen
Wanted — Hire for your career
The Diving Save — Do you really want to do this?
This is why you never end up hiring good developers — You are looking for the wrong things

Meetings

How to Run a Meeting — Rules so people know when to talk
Bits, Features, and Truth — Gives those forces a proper name
The Twinge — Amorphous moments of clarity
The Screw-Me Scenario — Paranoia is a lot of work
Agenda Detection — Players and pawns. Pros and cons.
New managers, 7 things to consider when you run your first team meeting

Managing Crises

The Crisis and the Creative — Investments in an uncertain future
A Deep Breath — A deliberate moment of consideration