The 5-Minute Startup CTO #26

Culture planning, Disconnecting, DataDog

Happy new year everyone!

Here are your picks for this week:

🎼 Culture is everything

With a new year comes a lot of planning.

New budget… check
Product roadmap… check
Hiring plan… check
But what about culture? What’s your 2020 plan for company culture?

Gabor Zold provides a good, exhaustive guide on what culture means, the importance of company values and how to make this scale. A good read which might trigger some thoughts on what you can do this year to improve your company.

👩‍💻 It’s all about People

To be able to dedicate your life to a role or project that you love - this is a real chance and privilege. But it can come at a cost… A very interesting topic well covered in this article from HBR.

Ultimately there is a time for everything, so be ready to take some distance from your work when you need to.

⌨️ If it ain’t code, don’t fix it

If large scale data processing is your thing, the Data Engineering Podcast has an interview with Vadim Semenov from DataDog, on their massive time-series processing platform and the team who built it.

I hope you enjoyed this.

Fabrice

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