Interesting links of the week (2019 #11)

Here are some interesting articles and blog posts I’ve run into over the last week (March 18 to March 24, 2019):

Technology

• Basic Tips and Tricks to Boost Productivity in Visual Studio
• Peacock v1 Released
• Some numbers that you will know by heart if you have been working with SQL Server for a while

Non-Technology

• The empty brain
• Three Ways You’re Still Onboarding New Hires All Wrong
• Inclusive Design Principles
• How NOT to hire a software engineer
• How to make your organization attractive to engineering talent
• Best Practices for Managing Remote Teams: A Psychological Perspective
• Engineering Management Distilled: A guide to one-on-ones
• Forget Inbox Zero: Here’s how to actually understand and optimize your email time every day
• The 2-minute rule and why you should spend more time getting the easy things right
• Use these 5 scheduling methods when a to-do list just isn’t working

Random

• The Mythical Land of Psychological Types and Its Impact on Education
• How to Write an Online Bio — With Short, Professional, and Other Examples
• Too Soon for Emoji URLs?
• This Guy Spent a Whole Week In a VR Headset
• I Worked In College Admissions And Had To Admit A Bunch Of Mediocre Rich Kids
• People who walk on the escalator actually slow everyone down
• The Disease of More
• YouTubers Are Fighting Algorithms to Make Good Content for Kids
• I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me
• Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?
• Scientists rise up against statistical significance