I recently stumbled across some fascinating reads that beautifully blend leadership, creativity, and innovation. From exploring how good leaders focus on elevating others rather than just themselves to visualizing algorithms in a way that turns complex data into art, there’s a lot to dive into. Plus, there’s practical advice for engineering leaders aiming for high-level roles, a simple take on mastering calculus, and why a ‘WTF Notebook’ might just be the key to problem-solving on your team. I also found a thought-provoking piece on prioritizing execution over strategy in startups and the power of intentional curiosity. And for a bit of intrigue, there’s the story of a museum employee who decided to become part of the art exhibit in an unexpected way.
- Good Leaders Turn the Lens on Others (Productive Flourishing Pulse #478): Not so much on ourselves, our abilities, and our self-optimization
- Visualizing Algorithms: Algorithms are a fascinating use case for visualization. To visualize an algorithm, we don’t merely fit data to a chart; there is no primary dataset. Instead there are logical rules that describe behavior. This may be why algorithm visualizations are so unusual, as designers experiment with novel forms to better communicate. This is reason enough to study them.
- 10 Must-Reads for Engineering Leaders: Apply the lessons to get to Staff+ / Manager roles
- Calculus Made Easy: WHAT ONE FOOL CAN DO, ANOTHER CAN.
- Why you need a “WTF Notebook”: There’s a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: “Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done.”
- Execution > Strategy: A framework to help prioritize the many ideas that bounce around startups every day.
- Intentional Curiosity: Get your Brain to Focus on What Matters: Intentional curiosity is the ability to direct your attention towards information inside or outside of you in a deliberate way. In other words, curiosity helps us direct our limited attentional resources to the most important stimuli within our attentional field.
- Employee Quietly Sneaks His Own Painting Onto the Walls of a German Museum: After discovering the stunt, the Pinakothek der Moderne fired the staffer and reported the crime to the police