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Book Reviews
- Smart Brevity
- A True Sense of Urgency
- One Foot Higher Each Year
- From Panic to Bewilderment
- Review: Everything is Figureoutable
- Computational Kindness
- Review: Aware, The Science and Practice of Presence
- Clean Room, Clean Mind
- Review: Dawn of the New Everything
- Best Design Books Not Explicitly About Design
- A Higher Standard
- 2017 Daily Reads: Dalio and Drucker
- A Decision Without Action Is Only a Hope
- Be a Yardstick of Quality
- Smarter, Faster, Better
- Design for Real Life
- Review: The Way of the Web Tester
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
- Pride and Paradev
- Review: Superforecasting
- Book Review: Quiet
- Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing
- The Power of Habit
Presentations
- The Power of Website Personalization to Drive Sales
- Product-Driven GTM Fuels the B2B SaaS Engine
- Your First 90 Days: ProductCon
- (Video) CSS Grid Changes Everything
- Scott Stancil: Effective Bug Discovery and Management (WordCamp DC 2017)
- Video: Empathy and User-centered Design
- A Journey of Theme Craftsmanship
- WordPress Edinburgh
- Speaking at ThemeConf
- WordCamp Buenos Aires 2015
- Video: State of Themes Panel
- Press Publish
- WordPress Barcelona December Recap
- WordCamp Las Peñitas: A 1000-Hour Head Start with Underscores
- I’m Speaking at WordCamp Phoenix 2013
- Speaking at the June 2012 Portland WP User Group
- WordCamp San Diego 2012
- WordCamp Phoenix 2012
- Ian Stewart: Awesome Up Your WordPress Theme with Post Formats
- Presenting at WordCamp San Francisco 2011
- WordPress 3.2, Gershwin
- Break Your Theme, WordCamp Columbus
- May 2010 Events
- WordPress for Collaboration
Leadership & Mindset
- Introducing The Full Stack Leader
- The Blank Page (Good Advice from Seth Godin)
- Outcome Frame Coaching Technique
- Steph Yiu on the Reboot Podcast
- Great Managers Are Org Engineers
- Be The Leader You Wish You Had
- Frequently Shared Docs: C-Suite Leadership, Product v Program Management, Coaching Groups, and Anti-Glossary
- I’m Only Just Starting to Learn
- Recognition Versus Appreciation
- Plucky Fulfillment Theory
- Smart Brevity
- Executive Coaching Groups
- Creativity is Not a Super Power: Natalie Nixon
- Remote Leadership at Tumblr on PM for the Masses
- Your First 90 Days: ProductCon
- A True Sense of Urgency
- Dream in Years, Plan in Months, Ship in Days
- Manage During a Crisis: Deliberate Calm + Bounded Optimism
- Deal With Unresolved Grief By Looking Outward
- The OG Team Lead Whisperer Peter Drucker on Responsibility, Automattic Style
- Kathleen Eisenhardt on Simple Rules To Unblock and Make Faster Decisions
- One Foot Higher Each Year
- SOUL-mate Decision Framework
- Leaders Shorten the Distance
- From Panic to Bewilderment
General Management, Business, Product Leadership, and GTM (Go-to-Market)
- Be The Leader You Wish You Had
- Smart Brevity
- The Power of Website Personalization to Drive Sales
- Product-Driven GTM Fuels the B2B SaaS Engine
- Free Tutorial: Optimize Your Business Website
- Distributed.blog: The future of work is here
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Confidence
- Making the Future
- A Napkin Sketch Is Enough
- Check Your Fuel Gauges
- You Have the Answers, Yet We Need More Questions
- Flat Organizations: Not Reinventing Everything
- Evergreen
- Hitsville
- Table Stakes
- The People Business
- Inclusive Design, Day 9/15: Review of Principles
- Inclusive Design, Day 8/15: Expand Your Market By Solving One Case First
- Is Your Product The Hero?
- Understand By Doing
- The Starbucks Experience, In Stores Only
- Abstract, High Resolution, Listen & Learn
- Running to Stand Still
- Automattic: When a Company Grows, but the Office Shrinks
- Design in Tech Report 2017
Craftsmanship & Learning
- (Video) Interview with Jack Dykinga
- Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
- SupConf
- Press Publish
- Encourage Dissidence
- TextMate Power Tips
- Still Learning Dvorak
- Learning Dvorak
- Craftsmanship and Coding Standards
- Top 10 Lists vs. Web Craftsmanship
- Be An Employable Web Designer
- SEO Guide for Designers
WordPress & Web Design
- Free Tutorial: Optimize Your Business Website
- (TTFS) Time to First Smile
- Manuel Matuzović on Accessibility and Inclusive Design
- Tide: Automated Testing for WordPress Plugins and Themes
- Make Difficult Things Possible, Easy Things Effortless
- Stripe Connect, Frontend Experience
- Gutenberg is the Next-Generation Engine for WordPress
- How Canaries Help Us Merge Good Pull Requests
- Tester Easter Egg
- Happy Second Birthday AMP
- (Video) CSS Grid Changes Everything
- Does IQ Measure Literacy?
- Abstract, High Resolution, Listen & Learn
- Scott Stancil: Effective Bug Discovery and Management (WordCamp DC 2017)
- Design Success Ladder: Meaningful Products
- Design for Real Life
- Video: A Look into Calypso
- Get Involved: WordPress App Testing
- WordPress.com Automated Tests Now Open Source — WatirMelon
- Video: Empathy and User-centered Design
- A Brand New Approach to WordPress
- Alex King
- WordPress Core Responsive Image Support
- Meet Twenty Sixteen
- WordPress Edinburgh
Interesting Links
- Simplenote is Back!
- Aaron Douglas: Being Mindful During Video Calls
- Kerry Liu on Team Leadership: Three Important Things
- 2018 Design in Tech Report
- Perception Versus Reality
- Agile Thinkers Know When a Best Practice Isn’t Best
- Hitsville
- Inclusive Design, Day 7/15: Roku and the 10-Foot Rule
- Top 5 Recent Sensible Leader Posts, and What’s Up Next
- Tide: Automated Testing for WordPress Plugins and Themes
- Stripe Connect, Frontend Experience
- If You Love Being Limited
- Inspired by Doug Glanville’s Triple Threat: Baseball, Journalism, and Social Justice
- Home is Where the Work Is
- Understand By Doing
- How Canaries Help Us Merge Good Pull Requests
- (Listen) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hits refresh
- (Video) Interview with Jack Dykinga
- Change Your Angle
- (Listen) You 2.0, Hidden Brain on NPR
- (Video) CSS Grid Changes Everything
- Data for Breakfast, via Reader
- Abstract, High Resolution, Listen & Learn
- Running to Stand Still
- Automattic: When a Company Grows, but the Office Shrinks
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