№5 — The Feedback Equation

Feedback Equation

Lara Hogan argues that most people are poorly equipped to give or receive feedback, and proposes a simple equation—observation plus impact, with an optional question—to make feedback land.

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bliki: Strangler Fig

Martin Fowler argues that a legacy system is best replaced not by a risky rewrite but by growing a new system around it that gradually draws away its behavior until nothing of the original remains.

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The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping | Rob Walling

Rob Walling argues that successful bootstrapped founders tend to climb a “stair step” of increasingly ambitious products, using the cash and experience from small early wins to fund riskier ones later.

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Invisible Details of Interaction Design

Rauno Freiberg argues that great interaction design isn’t just intuition or feel but rests on a set of nameable, learnable technical details that can be deconstructed and reused.

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CodePen – Online Code Editor For Building & Deploying Websites

CodePen positions itself as an online code editor and community for building, testing, and deploying front-end projects with real-time collaboration.

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The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz

Sandi Metz argues that living with duplication is cheaper than committing to the wrong abstraction, and that premature abstraction costs more than repeated code ever will.

duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction

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