Week 7: getting things done, incident response, post incident review postmortem, usesthis make.com, startup founder healthcheck
- Getting Big Things Done: Our ability to take on bigger projects necessarily involves working together with others, understanding different points of view and meeting people where they are.
- A guide to running Incident Command: What an incident commander should do. Reminder that the commander should not be trying to investigate / fix the problem. There is an orchestrating role that is important to a smooth response team.
- How to conduct a postmortem review meeting: Nice overview of how to prepare and run the post incident review meeting. Prepare the timeline doc ahead of time, schedule enough time for the meetup, it’s nice for a manager to run it to represent the team. Bunch of other good thoughts in here.
- (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup: Some thoughtful commentary on tools that helped and those that didn’t end up adding much value to how the team worked.
- My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder: A founder talks about his 6th year running a business. Even so far as to talk about where the money came and went as well. Enjoyed this one.
- Uses this: Anthony Agius: Liked this one. Daily newsletter writer, and does managed discourse hosting on the side. Make.com looks like a cool tool!
- A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector: Spending time thinking about gc lately in java and stop the world pauses. Go’s collector is a bit different and simpler but the ideas cross over well enough.