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A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers

183 points by pretext 4y ago

pretext 4y ago
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
james-bcn 4y ago
Wow what a great list! Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
- apricot13 4y ago
  With the awesome lists, digital gardens, Pinboard and personal websites coming back I wouldn't be surprised if 'the human curated web' is the next big thing
  - bognition 4y ago
    Curated lists are already here in the form of SubStack & Email Newsletters.
- mark_l_watson 4y ago
  In the few years before the WWW, I had a hobby at work of finding public FTP sites and downloading local copies of what was on the sites. A simple grep search over these files often surfaced useful code and data. I shared this with just my local work group at work. I agree that the ‘awesome list’ repos on GitHub are very useful.
thenoblesunfish 4y ago
Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
- peteradio 4y ago
  Maybe its an explicitly acknowledged bias suited to their own particular situation. YMMV!
- AlchemistCamp 4y ago
  If it’s not opinionated, it will just reflect the most popular items in the category that you’d just encounter via a Google search anyway. The entire value of this kind of list is its curation. Sadly, most “awesome” lists are just long lists with a firehose of items of no special quality.
- lucideer 4y ago
  I would say whether it's valuable is subjective: sometimes I want a more objective data-driven overview of trends, sometimes I want someone whom I've chosen to trust to provide partial views. Flagging it up front serves as much as a warning & disclaimer as it does a hook. As for redundancy, they're technically synonymous but "curated" has become a much abused term and more often than not these days is erroneously used to mean "amassed and presented without endorsement". So I think the redundancy adds clarity here.
- bluepizza 4y ago
  It's yet another funny trend that goes around in tech circles. As someone originally from math, my personal pet peeve is the way that tech people use "orthogonal" these days. I guess people just want to communicate the idea that this piece of opinionated text is biased. Of course, everything is biased, so opinionated is supposed to be redundant. So it's a signal that the author understands that they have biases, and expresses them. EDIT: I am not contesting any downvotes, but feel free to drop a note explaining why.
  - sockaddr 4y ago
    You just need micro-dose so you can grok it from first principles. Here, just read my Medium blog titled “Why I choose X for Y.”
    - 4y ago
throwboi123 4y ago
> A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I've personally interviewed graduates who can't answer "Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10" or "What's the number after F in hexadecimal? I wonder if this is true?
- rzzzt 4y ago
  This is a quote in https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ if anyone's wondering. What does the author win by lying about it?
  - patrickthebold 4y ago
    It could just be a mistake, or no longer true, it doesn't have to be a lie.
    - rzzzt 4y ago
      You are right, I was concentrating more on the second half of the quote which is about someone's personal experience. If what they describe is what they've encountered, it should not have an expiry date. For the extrapolating "surprisingly large fraction" part, I have no idea. Maybe someone is keeping count on these numbers; it would be interesting to see them.
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tester756 4y ago
small typo, it's Cheap Talk Officer
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183 points by pretext 4y ago

A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.

james-bcn 4y ago

Wow what a great list! Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.

apricot13 4y ago
With the awesome lists, digital gardens, Pinboard and personal websites coming back I wouldn't be surprised if 'the human curated web' is the next big thing
- bognition 4y ago
  Curated lists are already here in the form of SubStack & Email Newsletters.
mark_l_watson 4y ago
In the few years before the WWW, I had a hobby at work of finding public FTP sites and downloading local copies of what was on the sites. A simple grep search over these files often surfaced useful code and data. I shared this with just my local work group at work. I agree that the ‘awesome list’ repos on GitHub are very useful.

thenoblesunfish 4y ago

Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?

peteradio 4y ago
Maybe its an explicitly acknowledged bias suited to their own particular situation. YMMV!
AlchemistCamp 4y ago
If it’s not opinionated, it will just reflect the most popular items in the category that you’d just encounter via a Google search anyway. The entire value of this kind of list is its curation. Sadly, most “awesome” lists are just long lists with a firehose of items of no special quality.
lucideer 4y ago
I would say whether it's valuable is subjective: sometimes I want a more objective data-driven overview of trends, sometimes I want someone whom I've chosen to trust to provide partial views. Flagging it up front serves as much as a warning & disclaimer as it does a hook. As for redundancy, they're technically synonymous but "curated" has become a much abused term and more often than not these days is erroneously used to mean "amassed and presented without endorsement". So I think the redundancy adds clarity here.
bluepizza 4y ago
It's yet another funny trend that goes around in tech circles. As someone originally from math, my personal pet peeve is the way that tech people use "orthogonal" these days. I guess people just want to communicate the idea that this piece of opinionated text is biased. Of course, everything is biased, so opinionated is supposed to be redundant. So it's a signal that the author understands that they have biases, and expresses them. EDIT: I am not contesting any downvotes, but feel free to drop a note explaining why.
- sockaddr 4y ago
  You just need micro-dose so you can grok it from first principles. Here, just read my Medium blog titled “Why I choose X for Y.”
  - 4y ago

throwboi123 4y ago

> A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I've personally interviewed graduates who can't answer "Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10" or "What's the number after F in hexadecimal? I wonder if this is true?

rzzzt 4y ago
This is a quote in https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ if anyone's wondering. What does the author win by lying about it?
- patrickthebold 4y ago
  It could just be a mistake, or no longer true, it doesn't have to be a lie.
  - rzzzt 4y ago
    You are right, I was concentrating more on the second half of the quote which is about someone's personal experience. If what they describe is what they've encountered, it should not have an expiry date. For the extrapolating "surprisingly large fraction" part, I have no idea. Maybe someone is keeping count on these numbers; it would be interesting to see them.
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tester756 4y ago

small typo, it's Cheap Talk Officer

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