Welcome to Sleepless Links! I’ve been absent for a while due to other priorities, but it’s time to get back to it. I’ve got a ton of links in my reading list, but the ones below are those that have been most interesting to me lately.
Here’s the curated list of links for the week ending June 19th, 2022:
Molly White dose a great job of laying out the challenges and concerns around the notion of Sovereign Identity in her long-ish post Is “acceptably non-dystopian” self-sovereign identity even possible?
Every leader I talk to is struggling to hire good talent these days. It doesn’t seem to matter if you need infrastructure engineers, AppDevs, analysts, or people managers - everyone in the market for a new gig knows that the overall balance is generally in their favor and the recent inflation is driving salaries up across the board. That’s why this Jacob Kaplan-Moss post Making a Compelling Offer — in this economy? is one that all hiring managers need to read right now.
This is from a while back, but if they can make this process scale it promises to be a significant breakthrough in de-salinization capability. From the folks at MIT, From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button.
For those of us in the later stages of our careers, there comes a time when we begin to think about where we are, what we feel that we have left to accomplish, and to consider when it might be time to taper off and let the next generation of talent take the helm. This post about A career ending mistake was something that I needed to read.
The post Keep Blogging, Some of Us Still Read by Ivan Pepelnjak spurred me to get back to posting here. A short read, but good incentive.
Work From Home (or WFH, or WFH, or Remote Work) has been the hot topic lately as COVID has finally (hopefully!) started to really wind down, and there are lots of opinions on the topic out there. Even my employer has been a bit in the news about it. In my experience, remote work has been a boon for my teams, and we’ve seen some of the topics covered in the post Google and Apple are wrong: Hybrid and remote work won’t keep employees from building ‘social capital’ emerge organically in our teams as well.
I just recently discovered that Will Larson is writing a book on a topic near to my heart - Infrastructure Engineering. You can follow along with the progress like I am.
Speaking of Will, his recent post about Mailbag: Did I become a manager too soon? has some good advice for those early in career who are considering a switch to people leadership. I find that this is a major struggle for technical people - I know it was for me - and I’ve seen more than a few spectacularly bad IC-to-Manager moves. Any time I’m talking to someone who is wanting to move from IC to manager, I spend lots of time asking “why”, and helping them understand what the change means.
Lastly, it wouldn’t be a Sleepless Links post without a crypto counter-point. This week it’s an older post by Stephen Diehl titled Modern Grifters and The Golden Age of Fraud.
That’s it for this week - happy reading!
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