Struggling with managing all of your email in lockdown? Then Kanmail might be for you. Software developers Oxygem have released Kanmail, an email client app that lets you organise your email within a Kanban board.
Kamil Sindi put together a great list of principles into a playbook for managers, which covers caoching, hiring, onboarding and announcing change, among other things.
Google have partnered with O'Reilly to publish the Building Secure & Reliable Systems book, which looks to security best practices from Google SRE teams. The book is available to download for free.
Andreeson Horowitz collected a great list of articles on leadership, strategy, operations and other topics. There is lots of wisdom here with principles to help leaders in uncertain times.
The Farnham Street blog has a great post on second order thinking. The post centres around the Chesterton's Fence thought experiment, which can be summarised to: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place". A valuable lesson for anyone in a position of management :-)
The Slab blog describes some great etiquette tips for using Slack within a company. This is very helpful in the current situation with the increase in people working from home and perhaps relying more on communication via slack.
Buffer and AngelList surveyed 3,500 remote workers and have published a state of remote working in 2020 report. Flexibility and lack of commute are the best! :-)
Analst Benedict Evans has publised an interesting presentation on the state of Tech in 2020, from a talk he gave at Davos. The interesting presentation looks into how regulation may be the next societal step for the tech revolution to take.
Gurwinder published a great thread on Twitter listing many psychology, philosophy and political concept definitions and examples such as Ergodicity, Simpson's Paradox and Focusing Illusion to name but a few.
In an attempt to stop music copyright lawsuits, Damien Rhiel and Noah Rubin, two programmer musicians algorithmically generated every possible 8 note, 12-beat melody combo and saved them to a hard drive. Once in tangible format, the work is considered copyrighted however because the MIDI data is numbers, and numbers are considered as facts in copyright law which have thin or no copyright claim, the music may be considered not copyrightable.