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15. https://lethain.com/guiding-broad-change-with-metrics/
16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_objective
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
18. https://lethain.com/goals-and-baselines/
19. https://stripe.com/blog/aws-reserved-instances
20. https://lethain.com/goals-and-baselines/
21. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A5DCALY/
22. https://lethain.com/productivity-in-the-age-of-hypergrowth/
23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
24. https://lethain.com/refactoring-programmatically/
25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software)
26. https://lethain.com/goals-and-baselines/
27. https://lethain.com/strategies-visions/
28. https://lethain.com/strategies-visions/
29. https://lethain.com/roles-over-rocket-ships/
30. https://lethain.com/partnering-with-your-manager/
31. https://lethain.com/digg-v4-architecture-process/
32. https://www.amazon.com/ALL-NEW-Dont-Think-Elephant/dp/160358594X/
33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software)
35. https://lethain.com/selecting-project-leads/
36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_BOSS
37. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
38. https://lethain.com/guiding-broad-change-with-metrics/
39. https://lethain.com/strategies-visions/
40. https://lethain.com/building-technical-leverage/
41. https://lethain.com/close-out-solve-or-delegate/
42. https://lethain.com/organizational-risk/
43. https://lethain.com/tools-for-operating-a-growing-org/
44. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RO9VJK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8andbtkr=1
45. https://lethain.com/first-team/
46. https://lethain.com/hosting-paper-reading-group/
Chapter 4: Approaches
1. https://lethain.com/strategies-visions/
2. https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592
3. https://lethain.com/case-against-top-down-global-optimization/
4. https://lethain.com/productivity-in-the-age-of-hypergrowth/
5. https://lethain.com/infrastructure-between-cost-center-and-before-ego-trip/
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
7. https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-broken-bb8f3a48d324
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic
9. https://lethain.com/adding-value-as-an-engineering-manager/
10. https://lethain.com/ways-engineering-managers-get-stuck/
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Earth
12. https://lethain.com/ways-engineering-managers-get-stuck/
13. https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Right-Tao-Contemporary-Ching/dp/0982473982
14. https://lethain.com/some-of-my-favorite-technical-papers/
15. https://lethain.com/good-strategy-bad-strategy/
16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_analysis
Chapter 5: Culture
1. https://lethain.com/selecting-project-leads/
2. https://lethain.com/selecting-project-leads/
3. https://lethain.com/hosting-paper-reading-group/
4. https://www.donut.com/
5. https://lethain.com/sizing-engineering-teams/
6. https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/06/25/building-a-first-team-mindset/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_Bobby_McGee
9. http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
10. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/
11. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/#ParPosLib
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
13. https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficiency/dp/0767907698
14. https://a16z.com/2014/02/06/6147/
15. https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244
16. https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557/
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
Chapter 6: Careers
1. https://www.wired.com/story/surviving-as-an-old-in-the-tech-world/
2. https://blog.wealthfront.com/how-long-should-you-stay-at-your-job/
3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-larson-a44b543/
4. http://randsinrepose.com/archives/wanted/
5. https://www.comparably.com/blog/best-places-to-work-competition/
6. https://www.lever.co/
7. http://www.greenhouse.io/
8. https://lethain.com/membership-opportunity/
9. https://lethain.com/membership-opportunity/
10. https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/31/2017--year-in-review/
11. https://lethain.com/first-team/
12. https://www.businessinsider.com/stack-ranking-employees-is-a-bad-idea-2013-11
13. https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights-Inside-Transform-ebook/dp/B00MEMMVB8
14. https://lethain.com/skew-the-frontend-engineer-s-misery/
15. https://lethain.com/hiring-funnel/
16. https://lethain.com/perf-management-system/
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Reliability_Engineering
18. https://lethain.com/running-an-engineering-reorg/
19. https://lethain.com/career-levels-and-more/
20. https://lethain.com/perf-management-system/
21. https://lethain.com/hiring-funnel/
22. https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/098478280X
23. https://lethain.com/hiring-funnel/
24. https://lethain.com/perf-management-system/
25. https://lethain.com/perf-management-system/
Chapter 7: Appendix
1. https://twitter.com/davinbogan
2. https://lethain.com/hosting-paper-reading-group/
3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Lampson
4. https://12factor.net
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
6. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Harvest%2C-Yield-and-Scalable-Tolerant-Systems-Fox-Brewer/50158bc1a8a67295ab7bce0550886a9859000dc2
7. https://zipkin.io/
8. https://opentracing.io/
9. http://kafka.apache.org/
10. http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html
11. https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
12. http://mesos.apache.org/
13. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/prana-a-sidecar-for-your-netflix-paas-based-applications-and-services-258a5790a015
14. https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd
15. https://www.influxdata.com/
16. https://zookeeper.apache.org/
17. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B
18. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YubiKey
19. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_dec14_02_ward.pdf
20. https://parasol.tamu.edu/pivot/
21. https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub41342
Chapter 7: Appendix; Books I’ve found very useful
1. https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Thinking+in+Systems%3A+A+Primer+by+Donella+Meadows&qid=1551585388&s=gateway&sr=8-1
2. https://www.amazon.com/ALL-NEW-Dont-Think-Elephant/dp/160358594X/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Don’t+Think+of+an+Elephant%21+Know+Your+Values+and+Frame+the+Debate+by+George+Lakoff&qid=1551585650&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
3. https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3rd/dp/0321934113/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Peopleware%3A+Productive+Projects+and+Teams
+by+DeMarco+and+Lister&qid=1551585745&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
4. https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficiency/dp/0767907698/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Slack%3A+Getting+Past+Burnout%2C+Busywork%2C+and+the+Myth+of+Total+Efficiency+by+Tom+DeMarco&qid=1551585846&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
5. https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Mythical+Man-Month+by+Frederick+Brooks&qid=1551585913&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
6. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters-ebook/dp/B004J4WKEC/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Good+Strategy+Bad+Strategy%3A+The+Difference+and+Why+it+Matters+by+Richard+Rumelt&qid=1551585977&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
7. https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Goal%3A+A+Process+of+Ongoing+Improvement+by+Eliyahu+Goldratt&qid=1551586027&s=gateway&sr=8-1
8. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Five+Dysfunctions+of+a+Team+by+Patrick+Lencioni&qid=1551586085&s=gateway&sr=8-1
9. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Signs-Miserable-Job/dp/8126552697/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Three+Signs+of+a+Miserable+Job+by+Patrick+Lencioni&qid=1551586178&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
10. https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1476731713/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Finite+and+Infinite+Games+by+James+Carse&qid=1551586314&s=gateway&sr=8-1
11. https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=INSPIRED%3A+How+to+Create+Tech+Products+Customers+Love+by+Marty+Cagan&qid=1551586391&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
12. https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Management-Innovation/dp/1633691780/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Innovator’s+Dilemma%3A+When+New+Technologies+Cause+Great+Firms+to+Fail+by+Clayton+Christensen&qid=1551586451&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
13. https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About-ebook/dp/B000RO9VJK/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+E-Myth+Revisited%3A+Why+Most+Small+Businesses+Don’t+Work+and+What+to+Do+About+It+by+Michael+Gerber&qid=1551586507&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
14. https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Conversations-Achieving-Success-Conversation/dp/B06XGNMDBY/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Fierce+Conversations%3A+Achieving+Success+at+Work+and+in+Life+One+Conversation+at+a+Time+by+Susan+Scott&qid=1551586587&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
15. https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-solving-Paperback/dp/B00NPOCUKQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Becoming+a+Technical+Leader%3A+An+Organic+Problem-Solving+Approach+by+Gerald+Weinberg&qid=1551587007&s=books&sr=8-1-fkmr0
16. https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Mind-Understanding-Interface-Guidelines/dp/0124079148/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Designing+with+the+Mind+in+Mind+by+Jeff+Johnson&qid=1551587071&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
17. https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-Company/dp/0470894563/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Leadership+Pipeline%3A+How+to+Build+the+Leadership+Powered+Company+by+Charan%2C+Drotter%2C+and+Noel&qid=1551587127&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
18. https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Manager’s+Path%3A+A+Guide+for+Tech+Leaders+Navigating+Growth+and+Change+by+Camille+Fournier&qid=1551591945&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
19. https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=High+Output+Management+by+Andy+Grove&qid=1551592041&s=gateway&sr=8-1
20. https://www.amazon.com/First-90-Days-Strategies-Expanded/dp/1422188612/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+First+90+Days%3A+Proven+Strategies+for+Getting+Up+to+Speed+Faster+and+Smarter%2C+Updated+and+Expanded+by+Michael+Watkins&qid=1551592130&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
21. https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Harperbusiness-Essentials-ebook/dp/B01F1WZGNC/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Effective+Executive%3A+The+Definitive+Guide+to+Getting+the+Right+Things+Done+by+Peter+Drucker&qid=1551592182&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
22. https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?keywords=Don’t+Make+Me+Think%3A+A+Common+Sense+Approach+to+Web+Usability+by+Steve+Krug&qid=1551592244&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkmrnull
23. https://www.amazon.com/Deadline-Novel-About-Project-Management/dp/0932633390/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Deadline%3A+A+Novel+About+Project+Management+by+Tom+DeMarco&qid=1551592302&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
24. https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silver-Anniversary/dp/0932633420/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Psychology+of+Computer+Programming+by+Gerald+Weinberg&qid=1551592351&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
25. https://www.amazon.com/Adrenaline-Junkies-Template-Zombies-Understanding-ebook/dp/B00DY3KQHM/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Adrenaline+Junkies+and+Template+Zombies%3A+Understanding+Patterns+of+Project+Behavior+by+DeMarco%2C+Hruschka%2C+Lister%2C+McMenamin%2C+Robertson%2C+and+Robertson&qid=1551592413&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
26. https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Successfully-ebook/dp/B004J35LHQ/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Secrets+of+Consulting%3A+A+Guide+to+Giving+and+Getting+Advice+Successfully+by+Gerald+Weinberg&qid=1551592463&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
27. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Meeting-Leadership-Solving-Business/dp/0787968056/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Death+by+Meeting+by+Patrick+Lencioni&qid=1551592514&s=gateway&sr=8-1
28. https://www.amazon.com/Advantage-Organizational-Health-Everything-Business/dp/B007MIWCAY/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Advantage%3A+Why+Organizational+Health+Trumps+Everything+Else+in+Business+by+Patrick+Lencioni&qid=1551592591&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
29. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Practical-Advancing-Career-Standing/dp/B0762349WT/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Rise%3A+3+Practical+Steps+for+Advancing+Your+Career%2C+Standing+Out+as+a+Leader%2C+and+Liking+Your+Life+by+Patty+Azzarello&qid=1551592651&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr
30. https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Solution-Creating-Sustaining-Successful/dp/B000MGTPY4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Innovator’s+Solution%3A+Creating+and+Sustaining+Successful+Growth+by+Christensen+and+Raynor&qid=1551592710&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr