What I'm Reading: December 1

Career

• Google's Project Oxygen on effective management

  • Google's management 101 modules

• Creating an early-career engineering cohort that learns together

• The Basecamp folks wrote a manifesto on their product development lifecycle

From The Tech World, etc

• An interesting retrospective on the shutting down of Mighty, a web browser startup

• Falsehoods programmers believe about names

  • Among other falsehoods

• The party is over for unprofitable tech companies

Investing

• Hedge fund managers who own sports cars take on more risk without delivering better returns

  • Managers who drove cars with more seats and excellent safety ratings (like minivans) produced better returns with lower risk

  • ... so be sure to ask your financial advisor what they drive :^)