The 5-Minute Startup CTO #52
Reentry anxiety, Productivity tools, Contrarian thinking, API design
Hi there!
Welcome to the latest 5MSC, and this week’s top picks on People, Product, Process and Tech.
👭 People
With Covid-19 receding in many countries, and despite the growth in remote working, many employees will soon resume office-based work. Which is bound to be less straightforward than it seems.
Thankfully, there is plenty we can do to help employees deal with ‘reentry anxiety’. In short: focus on their wellbeing, communicate, act on health measures, train your leaders and offer flexibility.

🥫Product
Next, a handy list of 25 productivity tools for Product Managers. From communication to email and automation, and more, it would be amiss not to make the best of these.

🔄 Process
How often do you purposefully steer away from ‘best practice’, and break the rules? And when you do so, is it with a clear reason in mind?
In the latest Nfx podcast, James Currier discusses contrarian thinking, including examples from Apple, PayPal, Yelp and Square.

⌨️ Tech
Lastly, REST APIs are a very well established standard by now, but it’s still nice to see this good set of design best practices, straight from the StackOverflow blog.

Until next time, have a great week!
Fabrice
The 5-Minute Startup CTO: every Sunday, 3 top insights in 5 minutes for startup CTOs and Tech Leads. Hand-picked by Fabrice, a UK-based consulting CTO.