What I Touched This Week 2020-08-02

I was reading Leading Snowflakes and posts from Forte Labs.

Blockchain

• Bitcoin Core Fee Estimation Algorithm
• Looking at ownership in the EVM

Productivity

• P.A.R.A. 是什么及在 Notion 中的应用

• Writing is Thinking

  • They serve to build a corporate history
  • Shared corporate history of why/how
  • The act of writing, forces the author to think through all the details and steps required to share the lesson.
  • It is easier to contribute

Management

• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell

  Concise introduction to Agile.

• How to Create Group Norms

• How Extreme Transparency Can Make Your Team Its Most Productive

• Show How, Don’t Tell What - A Management Style

• The Two Sides of Trust

┌ About motivation

• RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

  • Autonomy
  • Mastery
  • Purpose

• How To Keep Your Best Programmers

• Bored People Quit

• How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

  Expert beginner thinks that he/she already mastered the domain so stops improving.

Product

• What Animal Crossing can teach us about marketing and product development

Writing

• 12 Powerful Tips on How to Write Persuasive Blog Posts
  • Focus on the solutions, focus on why
  • Use own visual content, examples and stories
  • Talk about why to show empathy and keep readers involved in the conversation
  • Back Up Your Claims with Statistics from Reliable Sources
• How to Write Technical Posts (so people will read them)
  • [You have] four sentences to convince [readers].
  • Focus on solutions to problems, focus on why
  • First sentence of each paragraph should be sufficient to understand the rest of the paragraph.
  • Keep them on the same page, show empathy.
    • Less distractions
    • Point out what they might be thinking, and then very explicitly show them what they should be thinking instead.
    • If you’re giving examples of something that fits a pattern, make sure you give examples of things that do not fit the pattern.
      • People learn by seeing lots of examples
    • Anticipate which parts of your argument will be difficult for your readers

Bookmarks

• Mermaid live editor, creating diagrams from plain text.
• Make better decisions, decision matrix
• LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems
• Mozilla VPN: Protect Your Entire Device