Weekly Digest #69

Articles

The Top 3 Challenges of Remote Work and How to Overcome Them

Writing as your main source of communication

• Make it friendly
• Be comfortable disagreeing
• Say it anyway

Dealing with social isolation/Maintaining a social life

• Set up a regular time to meet your coworkers
• Prioritize your relationships outside of work

Balancing work and living in the same space

• Create a separate space for work
• Take a walk before and after work
• Create a work hours schedule

Addressing Python Dependency Confusion at Pinterest

The dangers of “pip –extra-index-url”

• pip does not let you set which backend index to prioritize
• use pip-tools/poetry for package hash verification

Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform

• User experience interviews
• User surveys
• NPS (Net promoter score), survey the actual user instead of everyone
• Dogfooding, to validate new features, identify bugs