A good reminder that approaching incidents with a mindset of learning makes it an exciting rather than painful situation. https://elezea.com/2023/08/incidents-cant-be-prevented-but-learned-from/

A talk about the responsibilities of creating AI/LLM products: 1) When you invent a new technology, you uncover a new class of responsibilities. 2) If that tech confers power, it starts a race. 3) If you do not coordinate, the race ends in tragedy.: https://elezea.com/2023/08/uncovering-a-new-class-of-responsibilities-with-ai-llm/

Some great reading tips from Tracy Durnell here, including this gem: "Treat my To Be Read list as a stream to dip into, not a to-do list. I know I won’t get to all the books on my TBR.": https://elezea.com/2023/08/my-reading-philosophy-in-17-guidelines/

Great post by Camille Fournier about “The Product Culture Shift”, and how every part of an engineering culture needs to change when product managers are added to traditional software infrastructure organizations.: https://elezea.com/2023/07/the-product-culture-shift/

Excellent post by danah boyd, reminding us that with social networks it all comes down to nurturing the network dynamics, not the technical features.: https://elezea.com/2023/07/dear-alt-twitter-designers-its-about-the-network/

A mistake some managers make is to focus too much on *how* work is done, and not enough about creating alignment around *what* needs to be done.: https://elezea.com/2023/07/manage-the-what-not-the-how/

A good reminder that reading fiction is useful for work purposes as well: “Reading fiction helps you become an unsystematic thinker, something that is equally valuable but more elided by some engineers.”: https://elezea.com/2023/07/reading-well/

Allie Conti frames the remote work debate really well in this post. How someone feels about remote work and “return to office” is extremely personal, and we should cater for both preferences.: https://elezea.com/2023/07/why-the-remote-work-debate-stays-so-heated/

Josephine Conneely has some excellent thoughts on the feared P-word in “How Process Impacts Your Culture“. Go back to the purpose of adding process when evaluating what you have in place. https://elezea.com/2023/07/how-process-impacts-your-culture/

A 3-part essay about “The PLG Trap”, where product-led growth companies grow to a certain point and then suddenly sees that growth slow with no obvious ways through the slowdown https://elezea.com/2023/07/the-product-led-growth-trap/