Curated Content March 2024

March was pretty thin on content. I was a little delayed in compiling this one, so in truth, I don't know if that was due to the fact that I didn't take in much during March, much of it wasn't worth taking in, or I erroneously attributed it to February or April.

Articles

Build Your Career on Dirty Work

This was one that I thought was a great highlight for certain kinds of individuals wanting to grow a fulfilling career quickly. It won't work at all organizations as some organizations systematically undervalue this kind of work, but by identifying organizations that won't and then tackling dirty work for them can be a great career or business strategy.

Books

No book recommendations this month.

Conf Talks

No conf talks this month.

Podcasts

No podcasts this month.

Microposts

An incredible thread by Dragan Stepanović about how it's counter intuitive, but many strategies we use (whether in software engineering or other processes) to minimize risks and errors can actually exacerbate the problem, rather improve it.

This isn't news to agile practitioners, but the phrasing of it is excellent.