Cultural Idiosyncrasies

The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide! Some might even sound good enough for you to try out! Demo Fridays, morning water-cooler, no-meet Wednesdays, recorded meetings, dog-pile debugging (aka CSPAN for debugging), RFDs (requests for discussion), no performance review process...
In addition to Bryan Cantrill (mastodon.social/@bcantrill) and Adam Leventhal (mastodon.social/@ahl), we were joined by Oxide colleague Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• Bryan: Engineering a culture (oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture)
• Matt: It's Free Real Estate (mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-03-25-packing)
• Cliff: Who killed the network switch? (cliffle.com/blog/who-killed-the-network-switch)
• OxF: Engineering Culture (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engin…)
• Demo Day
• Jujutsu (github.com/martinvonz/jj)
• Covid as a catalyst for remote-friendly features
• Watercooler morning meeting
• No-meet Wednesday
• OtM: Jeff Rothschild (oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/jeff-roth…)
• No (formalized) review process
• The non-zero-sum value of praise
• Positive Coaching Alliance (positivecoach.org)
• Chat as the apple of discord (and remember email?! Or jabber??!!)
• DORA (docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/analytics/dora_metrics…)
• Oxide RFD (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)s
• RFD 68: Partnership as Shared Values (rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0068)
• Matthew Sanabria: Observability Companies to Watch in 2024 (matthewsanabria.dev/posts/observability-compan…)
• "Chat"
• "Rock and stone"

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