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| 3 | +title: 'Empathy and Sleep Durations: TGIF! (57)' |
| 4 | +author: Lena |
| 5 | +layout: blog-post-tgif |
| 6 | +comments: true |
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| 11 | +TGIF! – Thank Grohl, Gauss, Glob, Galileo and Science it’s Friday, and again it's time for our weekly reading recommendations, prepared to help you get some good reading time on your weekend. As usually, they're curated for you by [Julia](http://twitter.com/juschm) and [Lena](http://twitter.com/lrnrd). Enjoy! |
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| 13 | +Oh, and by the way: <b>our blog's RSS feed is back</b> – subscribe now on hood.ie or hood.ie/feed.xml to make sure you never miss a post! <3 |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +##Open Source |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +The [CouchDB Weekly News, February 03, 2015](http://blog.couchdb.org/2015/02/03/couchdb-weekly-news-february-03-2015/). |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +##Design |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +Hold a kickoff meeting [before diving into the design](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/12/hold-a-kickoff-meeting-before-diving-into-the-design/). |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +[How to be found by clients](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/02/how-to-be-found-by-clients/). |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +##The Web and Development |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +> |
| 28 | +I'm a coder. I'm also blind. Blind as a bat, you might say. And I was born this way. – |
| 29 | +<cite>[A vision of coding without opening your eyes](http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/01/a-vision-of-coding-without-opening-your-eyes.html)</cite> |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +> |
| 32 | +Math is too beautiful, too powerful, and too important to be reduced to mere mechanical calculation the way most of us experience it in school. That is not what math is really about. What matters in math, and what gives it its beauty, is reasoning and connections between ideas. – |
| 33 | +<cite>[A software engineer’s adventures in learning mathematics](https://medium.com/@warrenhenning/a-software-engineers-adventures-in-learning-mathematics-62140c59e5c).</cite> |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +[Transitioning to SCSS at Scale](https://codeascraft.com/2015/02/02/transitioning-to-scss-at-scale/). |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +> |
| 38 | +The web platform has evolved. Browsers are no longer just document renderers, they have become the most capable and ubiquitous application runtimes on the planet. – |
| 39 | +<cite>[Native Web Apps](https://blog.andyet.com/2015/01/22/native-web-apps)</cite> |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +> |
| 42 | +Most importantly and above all, I will put the needs of the USER FIRST over my own needs as a developer. – |
| 43 | +<cite>[A front end engineer's manifesto](http://f2em.com/)</cite> |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +It is often valuable to put down your tools, take a couple of steps back, and get a view of the bigger picture. – [10 Principles for effective Frontend-Driven Development](http://www.thedotpost.com/2014/11/harry-roberts-10-principles-for-effective-frontend-development) (talk video and slides). |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +What colour [is your function?](http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/) |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +> |
| 50 | +For developers to live up to them, they need to understand that optimal app performance hinges on how well data is managed on the back end. If app makers need to think about how they can apply intelligent data distribution to make apps more lightweight, they can ensure that the data traveling across the network isn’t redundant or out-of-date. – |
| 51 | +<cite>[The app developer checklist: 6 ways to keep your users happy](http://readwrite.com/2015/02/02/app-developer-checklist-features-performance).</cite> |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +[The HTML5 JavaScript API index](http://html5index.org/). |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +##The Tech World and Culture |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +[You’re Missing the Point of Server-Side Rendered JavaScript Apps](http://tomdale.net/2015/02/youre-missing-the-point-of-server-side-rendered-javascript-apps/). |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +> |
| 60 | +Wadhwa betrays bias in implying that women aren’t nerds. There’s a wide spectrum of women who work in technology — and yes — many of us are nerds. – |
| 61 | +<cite>[Women can be nerds, too](https://medium.com/thelist/newsweek-allies-and-critique-8ffe11a1b5f2) - and some other points on speaking up for women in tech.</cite> |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +Visual Effects: [The gender bias behind the screen](http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/women-in-vfx-high-tech-yet-not-tech/). |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +##The Business |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +[Five bits of management wisdom from Pixar](http://tomtunguz.com/creativity-pixar/) |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +> |
| 70 | +This month, I laid off six people who I care about—people I want to be friends with for the rest of my life. It was one of the most painful things I've ever done. – |
| 71 | +<cite>[The Weight is a Gift](https://the-pastry-box-project.net/adam-brault/2015-january-29)</cite> |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +[On moving fast and breaking things](http://www.unwiredcouch.com/2015/02/04/forgiveness.html). |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +Distributed teams [and (not) being remote](http://beero.ps/2015/02/02/on-distributed-teams-and-not-being-remote/). |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +> |
| 78 | +Perhaps the biggest challenge we face as individuals at work, and as leaders, is attention management. This means being thoughtful and disciplined about how we split our time between different activities, and also about how we encourage others to focus on the right things. How? – |
| 79 | +<cite>[Manage your Team's attention](https://hbr.org/2015/01/manage-your-teams-attention)</cite> |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +> |
| 82 | +Empathy is a far undervalued technical asset. Too often, the knee-jerk reaction to hiring a developer is to think purely of code output, as though they are cogs churning out predictable quality product in a silo. The most successful developers I’ve ever worked for, with, and hired were those who actually cared about the people who were using their products on an emotional level. – |
| 83 | +<cite>[Hire good Developers](http://blogs.perl.org/users/camspi/2015/02/hire-good-developers.html)<cite> |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +##We <3 |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +[A history of loving to read](http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/history-loving-read). |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +> |
| 90 | +In this paper, I hope to explore the common and complicated dichotomy of the "good man": the man who, despite witnessing or hearing about wrongdoings remains passive; the man who does not participate or act in the crime, but does not take a stand against what he knows to be wrong, either on the fraternity or administrative level. – |
| 91 | +<cite>[CW: rape] [the dichotomy of good men: an analytical approach towards understanding the passivity of men within the fraternity system](http://www.membershiponhold.com/critical-essays/2014/12/26/the-dichotomy-of-good-men-an-analytical-approach-towards-understanding-the-passivity-of-men-within-the-fraternity-system)</cite> |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +[Lip Sync Battle time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvRypx1lbR4)! |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +> |
| 96 | +Many Americans spend a minimum of eight hours per day sitting in an office, but we observed significant physical and mental health benefits in subjects after just one instance of standing up, walking out the door, and never coming back to their place of work again. – |
| 97 | +<cite>[Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back](http://www.theonion.com/articles/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leavi,37957/)</cite> |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +What's up with [cats and boxes?](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/whats-up-with-cats-and-boxes/) |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | +How to be alone [(but not lonely)](http://www.lifesquared.org.uk/content/how-be-alone-not-lonely) |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +> |
| 104 | +How much sleep we prefer to get is highly subjective -- but how much sleep we need is a bit more concrete. – |
| 105 | +<cite>[How much sleep durations change](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/how-much-sleep-durations-changes_n_6581628.html)</cite> |
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