Learning, building and staying human in the age of AI
If you’ve ever been in a meeting where someone casually said “we just need to add RAG,” and you nodded while secretly searching what that meant under the table, this post is for you. The AI space moves so fast that even experienced developers can suddenly feel surrounded by unfamiliar buzzwords overnight. Terms like temperature, tokens, context window, embeddings, fine-tuning, and RAG get thrown around constantly, often without mu...
I’ve been quiet on this blog for about three years. When I last wrote here regularly, I was a technical project manager, reading every leadership book I could find, like John Maxwell’s, Ego Is the Enemy or Peopleware trying to figure out how to help my team, how to become someone worth following. It was a good season. Focused. Clear. I knew I needed to become a better tech lead, a better project manager. I was focused at wor...
This book is aimed at a wide range of professionals, including company leaders, managers, and human resource experts who play a critical role in shaping the culture and dynamics of their teams and organisations. Daniel Coyle gives us an important lesson in leadership and management: quite often, the team dynamics inspired by the leader are more important than the individuals comprising the team. The author delves into the specific actio...
The reason why leadership became such an important subject these days is due to the fact that people realize the following: when you become a leader, your hole life changes. Everything goes up and down with leadership and the world becomes a better place when people become better leaders. Your development as a leader has the power to change everything about you: you will become more effective, your weak points will improve, and your imp...
Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: People Management (General advice)
Why leaders should read it: It describes simple but powerful techniques that can be used to keep your team motivated while also obtaining the results you need, all without spending too much time. A short must-read lecture for new managers....
Progress Rating: 5/5
Category: Management (Software Industry)
Why leaders should read it: Management in the software industry presents distinct challanges. From how to approach recruiting to how the office should be built in order to boost productivity, Peopleware presents a complete overview of the entire software management process. The book is written as a series of essays on the various ways that software companies ...
Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: Personal Development (Teaching humility and modesty)
Why leaders should read it: It teaches leaders why modesty is more important today than ever and what advantages a quiet leader has in our interconected world. We are also presented with a lot of history tales about how successful and unsuccessful leaders managed their ego.
'Ego Is The Enemy' is a valuable book for leaders. The...
Progress Rating: 4/5
Category: Personal Development (Understanding vulnerability)
Why leaders should read it: It teaches leaders why they must embrace vulnerability and discomfort, how to give great feedback and what to do in order to have a very open, communicative and efficeint team
After more than a decade of studying the topic, Brené Brown presents in this groundbreaking book her take on vulnerability an...
Progress Rating: 5/5
Category: Thriller | Biography
Impression: tackles some serious ethical questions, but it is ultimately a thriller with a tragic ending. It’s a fun read full of bizarre details that will make you gasp out loud. The story almost feels too ridiculous to be real at points
Biographies of great achievers can be a great source for inspiration. They can not only teach us resilience and strateg...
Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: Leadership & management
Impression: A good book on how successful corporations use new management concepts in order to get the best results. Also includes a small history of management techniques
The book gives detailed information about how a lot of companies ranging from small startups to big corporations (like Intel and YouTube) managed to scale, improve revenue or achieve am...
