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'Becoming A Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg

• Jtsummers 7y ago
  I probably ought to read this one. I got on a Weinberg reading kick after reading some recommendations here a few months before his death. The one I particularly liked was The Psychology of Computer Programming. While dated in many ways (like MMM), it has a lot of interesting ideas and discussion about the structure and behavior of people and teams (regardless of discipline, though he was writing about programmers). I actually have a quote that I've kept in my office IM for a while that is a paraphrasing of Fisher's Fundamental Theorem [0]: Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments. The theme of that quote kept coming up, I presume deliberately, in many of the later chapters. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem_of_natural_selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem...
  • gmassman 7y ago
    Isn't that why most people use Docker nowadays?
  • pjmorris 7y ago
    You might also find Weinberg's 'An Introduction To General Systems Thinking' of value. Weinberg was heavily influenced by general systems theory, as illustrated by referencing Fisher, and he wrote the book as a way to introduce others to that line of thinking.