In this blog post, we’re tackling various topics – from a fresh approach to handling a not-so-great January, to tips on code optimization, running your own email server, and the future of Sports Illustrated. We’re also diving into negotiation tactics from an FBI pro, exploring strategies to manage and fix teams, and ways to captivate an audience of programmers. Plus, there’s info on group chats, web archiving, backlogs, and electric cars. Quite a ride!
- What to Do When January Didn’t Go as Planned (Productive Flourishing Pulse #466): Hint: it’s not “double down” or “beat yourself up”
- New Ways To Make Code Run Faster: Software optimization can save millions of dollars per year. Code optimization is not new, but there are new trade-offs and new techniques.
- How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain, part 1: Gmail? Apple? The cloud? Forget ’em all—in this series, we take your e-mail back.
- Sports Illustrated’s future hangs on standoff between billionaires: sources: Sports Illustrated’s future comes down to a high-stakes game of chicken between the iconic magazine’s billionaire overlords, The Post has learned.
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It: #promo A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’s head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles—counterintuitive tactics and strategies—you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life.
- Manage like an engineer: If issues, pull requests, and project boards are the best way to develop software, should they not also be the best way to manage software development?
- How To Fix Broken Teams: A playbook for management in hard mode.
- Speaking for Hackers: How to keep a roomful of programmers entertained when your competition is the internet.
- Campfire: Super simple group chat, without a subscription. And you get the code, too.
- ArchiveBox: Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…
- Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers: Lessons learned from a year of startup life.
- Open Vehicle Monitoring System Is The Window To Your EV’s Soul: Electric cars have more widgets than ever, but manufacturers would rather you don’t have direct access to them. The Open Vehicle Monitoring System intends to change that for the user. [via Tr…