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A collection of 4 issues

Do we need an office?

As the COVID-19 pandemic has now become an integral part of our daily lives, companies around the world are rethinking their policies around how and where the knowledge work is done. Approaches vary: * Airbnb announced its “Live and work anywhere“ policy and is partnering with governments to make it easier

5 more rules for IT

(This post is in Finnish since it's a reply to a LinkedIn post in Finnish). Ferrix Hovi postasi LinkedInissä erinomaisen listan ajatuksia IT-alaa harkitseville ihmisille. Jokaisen ajatuksen kohdalla nyökyttelin päätäni ja näytin mielessäni Ferrixille peukkua. Luettuani listan mielessäni alkoi heti kuulumaan ajatus: ”Loistava lista, mutta voisin kommentoida että

Managing technical quality in a codebase

Will Larson wrote a thoughtful post about managing technical quality in a codebase. The post goes through seven different approaches to managing technical quality, starting from fixing the most critical thing in your code right there and then, to planning & executing an organization-wide quality program with program sponsors, metrics,

Time for reading and workouts

There's a new interesting blog/newsletter called The Observer Effect by Sriram Krishnan which has posted two interviews so far: Marc Andreessen and Daniel Ek. Both are fairly long, so be warned. A lot of themes are covered, but the topic of productivity and personal time management is