19 / Your devices and your employer

Hey, hope your week was good. This issue is a bit shorter as my weekend has been super busy, enjoy nonetheless ✌🏻

Tweet of The Week

People being all "We were at our desks for 150 hours a week and we shipped an amazing product" and literally every useful insight I ever have is while I'm in the shower or taking a nap — @mjg59 on Twitter

Culture

• Your devices and your employer (rachelbythebay.com) — Rachel about the importance of keeping work off your local devices.
• Why you feel uncertain about everything you make (vanschneider.com) — Tobias van Schneider explains how feedback can be useful until it's not.

Software Engineering

• Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming (matt-rickard.com) — Matt Rickard has 31 reflections about writing code and all of them are great.
• Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt (alistapart.com) — Tom Greenwood explains how we can make the web sustainable.
• Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, DMARC, and SPF (alexblackie.com) — Alex Blackie covers the most important parts of email authenticity.
• How We Design Our APIs at Slack - Slack Engineering (slack.engineering) — Saurabh Sahni and Taylor Singletary about API design at Slack.
• Patterns in confusing explanations (jvns.ca) — Julia Evans about common pitfalls when writing explanatory content.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Top of My Todo List (paulgraham.com) — Paul Graham about five essential things to keep on top of your TODO list at all times.
• @michael_nielsen on Twitter (twitter.com) — Michael Nilsen about how he uses spaced repetition (I need to try this).
• Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? (newyorker.com) — Joshua Rothman in a great piece about rationalism and how it's more relevant today than ever.
• The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? (theguardian.com) — Michael Pollan about the history of caffeine and the effects on consumers everyday.

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