From the TL;DR in Tech archive, originally sent on Substack. Some links may have died since.

tl;dr in tech by Joe Karlsson - Issue #36

tl;dr: 12 strategies, including:

1) Encourage time off, prompting employees to take some if they don’t have any planned.

2) Lower the pressure by lowering expectations on OKRs and asking about them less frequently.

3) Be more positive about teams, and reports.

tl;dr: 3 tests:

1) Balance: how much time does the team spend in meetings vs free time?

2) Flow: how much free time is uninterrupted?

3) Effectiveness: how effective does your team feel meetings are? Shishir also provides steps to improve meetings.

tl;dr:

1) Create the new empty table.

2) Write to both old and new table.

3) Copy data (in chunks) from old to new.

4) Validate consistency.

5) Switch reads to new table.

6) Stop writes to the old table.

7) Cleanup old table. This guide will go through the step-by-step process of migrating tables in PostgreSQL.

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tl;dr: Tips of how to help your team…

1) Work through uncertainty - tips include acknowledging what’s happening, and investing in collective rituals.

2) Push back against perfectionism - tips include identifying different work styles, and sharing at 80%.

3) Beating burnout - tips include looking for warning signs, and protecting your teams time.

tl;dr: “In this issue we cover:

1) The extremes of shipping to production.

2) Typical processes at different types of companies.

3) Principles and tools for shipping to production responsibly.

4) Additional verification layers and advanced tools.

5) Taking pragmatic risks to move faster.

6) Deciding which approach to take.

7) Other things to incorporate into the deployment process.

tl;dr: The Stack Overflow memes are true: 60% of senior engineers commit 10-100 lines/week of copied and pasted code. And there is more: read the report to learn how 600 engineers (ICs and managers) spend time, from wrangling machines to wrangling people.