Neat lists of ground rules for all kinds of situations.  You’ll find some neat lists in here - very much worth browsing to find the rules that resonate with you and your team.

Leadership is lonely.  Ed Batista breaks it down, and gives suggestions about how to handle it.  A great post.

Another excellent post by Ed.  Waiting is a natural, completely understandable avoidance mechanism.  It’s also often, well, a waste of our most precious resource: our time.

I often feel I have to say this in Radical Candor workshops: we work hard, and long, and with intensity.  Why on earth do we think that we shouldn’t get emotional at work?

Chelsea Troy (who, by the way, writes a terrific blog), makes the same case, with more care and precision than I usually do.

Typically clear, insightful stuff from Rands.  Saying the hard thing is necessary.   Hearing the hard thing is just as necessary.  Why we don’t do either, typically, and what to do about it.

Working remotely means that the normal, accidental connections that build relationships in the office, are missing.  A useful set of tips - take a read.

A good list.

Another good list.

Is AI over-hyped?  Is the bubble about to burst?  I have no idea, but this is a knowledgeable, thoughtful post, and the discussion on Hacker News is a useful followup.

I’ve started building the outline of a course for first time managers.  It distills the many conversations I had with new managers as an exec, the critical issues that come up repeatedly in coaching and feedback from Radical Candor workshops.

I’d love your input and, naturally, it’ll be offered to readers of this exclusive newsletter first!  Take a look, and let me know how to make it great!

Rands, brilliant, as usual, on the pitfalls of taking over a management position.

Julie Zhou’s excellent set of notes on management.  A long, but typically elegant, and readable, post.

Marcus, in acerbic mood, points out all the ways we can end up getting in the way of programmers when we attempt to manage them.

Love these.  Simple, quick, effective behaviors to have a better day whilst leading a team.

“It all starts with expectations”   Yep.  If you don’t tell people what you want, it’s hard for them to deliver what you want.  Good post.

Stress is an integral part of work in the tech industry.  It’s good to know something about it.  This is a good summary of good stress vs bad stress.

My short notes on what stress is, and how to deal with it.  Conceptually dead simple.  You just have to do it.

Not strictly about leadership, or work, but about compassion, and the power that curiosity has to bring about compassion through empathy.  A beautifully written, insightful piece.

So the marshmallow test is a long-standing trope in behavioral blog posts: kids who can withstand eating a marshmallow for some period of time (restraint!  discipline!) do better in life.   Or, apparently, if you control for wealth and upbringing, not.

Pretty fascinating, and yet another classic “result” that has been brought into doubt (see also Amy Cuddy).

“What you need to succeed, is to do the work”.  Well, true.  What I like about this post is pointing out our tendency to mess about with tools (new sneakers for the gym!  a writing program for our screenplay!) rather than getting on with it.  Always good, and rather humbling, to spot.