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Recently I'm reading a lot less about tech and more about culture and have a bunch of things I can recommend: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Falling into Faith SHAME STORM SJWJS On my todo list: The Coddling of the American Mind As you probably can guess my view changed in the last couple of years on a bunch of topics. I still consciously try to remain in the middle in the discussions on the topics like `women in tech` as I don't want to be associated with actions of the most devoted believers. For example,  GitHub's ElectronConf postponed because all the talks (selected through an unbiased, blind review process) were to be given by men.  is far from  How blind auditions help orchestras to eliminate gender bias .

 I was listening to a podcast episode:  Command Your Focus and Attention on What Really Matters with Chris Bailey  and noticed a really good analogy. " What allows traffic to move forward at a solid space is how much space exists between the cars on the highway" What struck me about it is that I can use it to explain team productivity in different organizations I was a part of. Some of them tried to pack the sprint with tasks to the full, but in some, it was ok for the team to pick a 'safe' amount of tasks so that they could be sure to accomplish them. Before I was thinking about the benefits of slack time that allows the team to work on important things (not only urgent) and to have space for urgent things if they show up. The great feeling of accomplishment when you finish last scheduled task day before the end of the sprint and can tackle additional bug or two or the confidence to spend additional hour making code more maintainable before fin...