McFilter

Interesting Things on the Internet: November 24th 2014

• 44 engineering management lessons. Lot of good advice, some of which I manage to follow...
• It’s hard to build a good web. It's good to see some of the people building decent web "properties" exploring ways to thrive. Go support them.
• Metafoundry 15: Scribbled Leatherjackets. A good critique of Making. I'm not sure I agree with all of it, although I agree with some of it. It is always about the people, not the things. Maybe if more people answered "a difference", or "a community", or "I make do (and mend)" to the question "What do you make?" then we'd be moving in the right direction. But she's right, the celebration of Making is really just railing against the busywork and churn of making things of no (real) value in order to further line the pockets of the rich. Making isn't really the right term to latch onto, as many people make the world a worse place. It's tricky to find a better alternative though.