The 5-Minute Startup CTO #21

Mentoring tips, How to deploy code, Jeff Bezos

Here are your picks for this week:

🔄 Process makes perfect 

Mentoring programmes have become a common feature of companies, big or small. Quite likely, you are informally mentoring junior colleagues or have the explicit responsibility of coaching a team.

Either way, have a look at this good list of 25 tips from experienced mentors. Mentoring is a big responsibility, which deserves to be done well.

⌨️ If it ain’t code, don’t fix it

Following on from last week’s tip on how the way you ship is part of your culture, a really good article on deployment best practices. In short: build up observability, and deploy very often, for every code change.

👩‍💻 It’s all about people

From Jeff Bezos back in 2010, explaining how we are what we choose:

“One day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever”

It’s less about the gifts you may have (which are easy), and more about the choices you make (which are harder). A great lesson worth sharing.

I hope you enjoyed this. Have a great week!

Fabrice

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Hand-picked by Fabrice, a UK-based consulting CTO. Let me know if you need help with your startup!