A curated collection of articles, videos, and posts I find interesting.

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Feb 2024 Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? The Analytics Engineering Roundup
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Jul 2021 MongoDB 5.0: Worth the Wait Database Trends and Applications
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Jul 2021 The Difference Between R and D MongoDB Blog Michael Cahill's piece on what's next at MongoDB
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Feb 2021 Your Company Is Too Risk-Averse Harvard Business Review I wonder if this is us or not?
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Feb 2021 Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration Harvard Business Review Communicating is really hard — and I'm working on this too
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Feb 2021 How Andy Jassy Was Trained by Jeff Bezos CNBC One way to build leaders — how Amazon does it
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Feb 2021 Things David Perell Learned from Jeff Bezos David Perell Key things to learn about how Bezos runs Amazon
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Feb 2021 Andy Jassy's 8 Steps to Reinvent a Business SiliconANGLE How companies can reinvent themselves
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Feb 2021 Connect Then Lead Harvard Business Review It was recently pointed out to me that I need to pay more attention to this
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Jan 2021 Stepping Up for a Truly Open Source Elasticsearch AWS Open Source Blog Quite an interesting way to wake up the open source community
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Jan 2021 Elastic License v2 Elastic Blog
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Nov 2020 The Feedback Fallacy Harvard Business Review Some feedback on feedback
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Oct 2020 High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety Harvard Business Review Can we feel safe in a high performing team?
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Oct 2020 Hanlon's Razor Farnam Street Maybe they aren't all out to get you?
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Sep 2020 The Authenticity Paradox Harvard Business Review How do you be more authentic?
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Aug 2020 The Essential Clayton Christensen Articles Harvard Business Review Clay Christensen was a gift and I continue to be sad he is no longer with us
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Jul 2020 The Principle of Charity Effectiviology A piece on what it means to believe in best intentions
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Jul 2020 The Seven Transformations of Leadership Harvard Business Review I personally find my Diplomat very challenged
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Jul 2020 Steve Yegge's Medium Page Medium One of the funniest blogs on the Internet