19-Sep-2025 Content of Interest

Web

Becoming the person who does the thing (Fred Rivett) "Your actions follow your self-beliefs."

The Death of Product Management. (Joe Smiley) "Product Management isn’t dying, it’s evolving."
How Culture Scales (or Doesn’t) (Mike Fisher) "Culture doesn’t scale by accident."
The evolution of platform engineering: Lessons from the trenches (Rickey Zachary) "the goal remains the same: help teams build and deliver value faster, safer and with confidence."

China’s Brain Implant Startups Take On Musk’s Neuralink in New Tech Race (Amber Tong, Saritha Rai) "America's leadership in brain technology is being challenged by Chinese startups with the support of a full-throttle policy drive."

Solve Customer Problems (Mike Fisher) "What problem is this solving?"
Meet the new boss (Eric Brechner) Good advice.
The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team (JP Pawliw, HBR) Unlocking the last 8%.
Why rational humans make irrational decisions (Bart Wullems) "sunk cost fallacy – our tendency to continue investing in failing ventures simply because we've already invested so much."
If I hear “design pattern” one more time, I’ll go mad (Alisa Sireneva) "Patterns are useful, but it doesn’t make sense to focus on them"

30 minutes with a stranger (Alvin Chang) Addictive! Lot's of other interesting topics to explore.

Frameworks (Mike Fisher) "frameworks can broadly be described as handrails for thinking"
Lisp Still Matters (Joe Marshall) "Lisp's enduring appeal to expert programmers lies in its powerful, foundational design."
Legacy tech is hard to kill (Ron Miller) "66% of enterprise hardware decision-makers reported mainframe usage."!
Java’s not dead, but it’s definitely been zombified () "surviving isn’t the same as thriving"

Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues (Emily Mullin) Neuralink's Telepathy product is "designed to allow paralyzed people the ability to operate their phones and computers with just their thoughts."
Under-the-Skin Electrode Allows for Real-World Epilepsy Tracking (Michael Barbella) Subcutaneous Electroencephalography (sqEEG)
Seluna launches large-scale medical tech study for kids sleep apnea (Rowan Dunne)

Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development (Martin Fowler)
Open Source is one person (Josh Bressers) "Almost all open source is literally one person."
The reality of AI-Assisted software engineering productivity (Addy Osmani) "Adoption Soars, trust plummets"
Small Bets (Mike Fisher) "Make that bet. Observe. Adjust. And then make the next one."
Tag-based logging (Roman Kashitsyn) “Common sense advice.”

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry (Emily Mullin) "We just want to build something useful for patients."

Email is Easy (Jack Bearheart) Well, not really. Take the quiz.
The System Inside the System (Scott Werner) Ruby meets AI: "What's the Rails moment for AI agents?"
50 things I know (Cate Hall) Good read. Like #18: "Ideas are cheap and easy to find; execution is everything."
The 5 Most Common REST API Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) (Milan Jovanović) "know your tradeoffs and own them"
Why Writing Matters (to the Technical Professional) (Ted Neward)

Brain-Computer Interfaces In Healthcare: Current Promise And Future Potentials (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo)
Software to Bolster the Security of Medical Devices (Bob Kronemyer) "Medical device security lags behind modern threats, with 80% of software built on vulnerable open-source code."