The Great Resignation was all the hype earlier this year. Then Quiet Quitting took over the headlines when hordes of people popularized "doing the bare minimum at work" on apps like TikTok. While it has a nice ring to it, the real question is: what the fuck?!

It’s well-known that engaging in extroverted activities such as networking and public speaking can help people advance their careers. Research has further suggested that in some cases, even naturally introverted people may be energized and feel better in the moment when engaging in these behaviors. However, studies have also shown that acting more extroverted than you are can take a substantial mental toll in the longer-term, leading to lower energy levels and potentially cancelling out the personal and professional benefits. As such, the authors argue that naturally more-introverted people should carefully weigh the benefits of putting on an extroverted face, and should make sure to give themselves time to recharge if and when they do decide to participate in extroverted activities.

The way we do one-on-ones at Front offers a simple model for demonstrating care and boosting engagement. Here’s how we do them.

If you had walked into the community health centre in Southcentral Alaska, in the mid-nineties, you would have found yourself in a…

There’s more to open source than what fits into a license. Julia Ferraioli paints a picture of OS based on the people who consume, contribute to, and maintain it.

A conversation with Thomas Zurbuchen on managing complexity, expert teams, and big budgets.

If you're going to work with hypotheses you need clear success criteria. Outcomes provide the objective lens needed to determine our next steps.

How to use success criteria to set expectations and empower developers.

Like triaging our inboxes, clearing our Slack messages, or managing our to-do lists, preparing an agenda can make us feel like we’ve accomplished something. And when we go through our detailed, bulleted agendas with our colleagues before or during a meeting, it sure feels like productivity is happening. But research shows that these feelings may in fact be leading us into the trap of agenda theater: We sink time and effort into agendas that create the appearance of effective meetings, without actually improving how meetings are run (and potentially even leading to less effective, overly-structured meetings). To avoid falling into this trap, the authors argue that we should take an outcome-centric approach that’s focused on simply defining the goal of the meeting — what we want to achieve, and why — rather than attempting to create a detailed agenda that describes exactly how we’ll achieve that goal in advance.

An introduction to agile ways of working, user-centred design and the governance and culture to empower your team and mission.