I got leadership training based on the famous personality test MBTI last Tuesday. I hadn’t had such training, so I was curious about how the MBTI results could help us work better as a team.
Unfortunately, I found the training reaffirm my skepticism over personality tests. The coach emphasized a few times that these test results are merely meant to drive conversations. But during the 4-hour exercise, those nuances were lost, and I felt boxed by the four letters of my MBTI test — some commented how someone got good scores, which upset me.
I understand that when at scale, we need a way to group many people because it’s impossible for one to understand thousands deeply. But we are talking about a dozen close colleagues that we interact with daily. We should rely on open and honest conversations, not these tests, to understand each other.
Software Engineering ⚙️
What’s TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out.
It will be slow if JavaScript has to chug through 100MB of source code. This source code bloat is why faster native code-based tools like swc and esbuild are gaining popularity.
RedwoodJS vs. BlitzJS: The Future of Fullstack JavaScript Meta-Frameworks
I enjoyed reading this deep-dive on new generations of JavaScript frameworks. While the author preferred the less-opinionated nature of BlitzJS, I prefer the opinionated technology choices of RedwoodJS: serverless, React, and GraphQL ❤️
People ❤️
Talking About Layoffs
I appreciated the author’s courage to share her pain of getting laid off. Before reading this article, I hadn’t considered how people who were let go cannot have closure around why now, why me, etc.
Becoming an Organizational Leader
A few of my reports expressed interest in growing to be organizational leaders. Since I am not at that level either, I had difficulty guiding them. That’s when I found this thorough article by the Square engineering team. I loved reading about different areas one can effect organizational changes.
Business 💰
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment
Even the most prestigious funds and accelerators are not immune to the economy.
Interesting Finds 💡
How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate The Logo for OctoSQL
I’ve seen lots of weird images DALL-E generated. But this is the first one where the image serves a valuable purpose. This article got me interested enough to join the DALL-E waitlist.
Earth is spinning faster than usual and had its shortest day ever
What’s more shocking is that Meta has dedicated engineers working on the leap second problem.
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