Posts from Awesome Folks #115

A weekly round up of blog posts I've been reading

Emily Webber
July 26, 2024

Hello folks,

It’s been a week dotted with work with one client while waiting for procurement sign-off for something new with another. This space in my calendar, along with watching the Great British Sewing Bee, has made me get my sewing machine out of hibernation to make a jacket that I’m very pleased with, I really enjoy creating things.

Photos from the week, a homemade jacket and the “summer’ funfair is in town.

Next week, I must get on with prepping the upcoming talks I have planned.

This reminds me, if you don’t have your ticket for the Design System Day happening in Liverpool on 5th Sept, then get on the list; I heard that the second round of tickets should be released next week.

Enjoy this week’s posts, share any comments below and happy Friday

Emily

People and Culture

Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership

Charity Majors

Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over ho…

charity.wtf/2024/07/24/pragmatism-neutrality-and-leadership

22 | Part 2: The Power of Reflection with Isao Yoshino

Katie Anderson

Discover the power of reflection with Isao Yoshino, a leading expert in fostering continuous improvement and effective learning.

kbjanderson.com/22-leading-to-learn-part-2-power-of-reflection-isao-yoshino

Organisations and Systems

TBM 303: Official, Real, and the Ideal

John Cutler

In every company, you have:
A: The formal process and official way things are supposed to work
B: The reality of how things work

cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-303-official-real-and-the-ideal

Outcomes and Objectives

Writing Secret 13: There Are No New Ideas—Only New Expressions of Those Ideas

Johanna Rothman

After I delivered a talk about product management, Fred, a prospective writer, asked a question. He said, “It seems like there are no new ideas. How can I write something that's already been done before?” I said, “Write your truth, your experiences. Don't worry about what's come before.” He said, “But someone already wrote that.” […]

www.jrothman.com/mpd/2024/07/writing-secret-13-there-are-no-new-ideas-only-new-expressions-of-those-ideas

A new way to look at applied experiments

Connor Joyce

Discover the power of experimentation in product development with strategies for real-world application and create feasible experiments.

www.mindtheproduct.com/a-new-way-to-look-at-applied-experiments

Releasing new features nobody cares about

David Pereira

How to avoid the "feature factory" trap and create products customers love with insights on empowering teams and fostering collaboration.

www.mindtheproduct.com/releasing-new-features-nobody-cares-about

Other Things

You can now preorder Platformland from Richard Pope and you should.

"Platformland" by Richard Pope (preorder)

An anatomy of next-generation public services. Includes 30 illustrated design patterns, 10 strategic interventions & global examples of digital government.

lpp-books.sumupstore.com/product/platformland-by-richard-pope-preorder

In the “seriously?!” category, after the chaos of the CrowdStrike outage last week, they have been offering $10 gift cards. If that isn’t insulting enough, they don’t all work.

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch

Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.

techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage