Software

• Google I/O 2024: Sundar Pichai on Gemini, AI progress and more Overview of Sundar’s keynote.
• The dilemma of quality versus speed is false (Denis Kranjcec) "Quality is the prerequisite for speed"
• Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy) (Mahesh Balakrishnan)

Med Dev

• Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep? (berci.mesko) Interesting stuff. Reality has the habit of catching up to sci-fi. Maybe this too someday?
• Big Tech in Medtech: Is Apple Pressing Too Hard? (Amanda Pedersen) "Traditional medical device companies will have to become even more savvy than they are today about making friends with the likes of Apple."

Software

• Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow (Forrest Brazeal) LLMs are taking over the world!
• Ego in Leadership (Mike Fisher) "People want to follow leaders who have a healthy ego."
• 4 Common Types of Team Conflict — and How to Resolve Them (HBR) 20% of their time managing conflict!
• Gene Kim on Unpacking Organizational Wiring (Darko Fabijan)
• Measuring dev productivity (Eric Normand) Follow-up to the James Shore article.
• James Shore: A Useful Productivity Measure?

Med Dev

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (Beth Mole)

Software

• Ship of Theseus (Mike Fisher) "organizations, firms, and companies are Ships of Theseus."
• Why didn’t one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp? (Forrest Brazeal) Good industry perspective.
• Observations of Leadership (Part One) (Hazel Weakly) lt;dr, but a good engineering leadership read nevertheless.
• Pharo - Pharo 12 Released Fun Smalltalk environment. Also see: Glamorous Toolkit
• Explaining Trunk Based Development (Mahesh Mallikarjunaiah) Seems like it should be straight forward, but it's not.

Med Dev

• Demystifying Regulatory Hurdles: How to Navigate FDA Approval for AI-Enabled Medical Devices

Software

• The Power of Questions (Mike Fisher) "mastering the art of critical inquiry"
• The Value of Values (Eric Normand) "A value needs teeth."
• 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way The don't-DRY advice (i.e. DO repeat yourself) is just a cautionary tale of over-abstraction.
• Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One (Tyler Treat) "The reality, however, is that these three priorities are competing with each other"
• Language of Business (Mike Fisher) "it's about bridging the gap between technical expertise and business acumen"
• 6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When (Rebecca Knight, HBR)

Med Dev

• Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health (Andrea Koncz)
• Resmed Stock Poised for Growth: Buy Rating Affirmed Amid Revenue Upswing and Margin … Interesting that this was published on the same day as the Lilly obesity drug announcement. Lilly obesity drug shows benefit in sleep disorder study, pointing to new use

Software

• There is always something: Fighting distractions as a software developer (Dalibor Schon) "This article is a distraction. You should get back to your work! Or not?"
• Why Leaders Need Self-Awareness (Mike Fisher) A little off topic, but an interesting read nevertheless.
• Design is not recoverable from implementation (Eric Normand) "Anticipating changes is not design. Design is the higher level understanding of how we decompose the system into interacting parts."
• Creativity in Software Engineering (Abi Noda) "Creativity is not about originality, it’s about reusability"

Med Dev

• Software as a Medical Device: key considerations for SaMD success | FutureScot (James Graveston)

Web

• A Nobel Prize Winner And Chocolate (David Friedman) "dark chocolate is the way to go" No duh!