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A common theme I’ve seen at #LeadDevLondon is Listening to and Telling Stories. Whether it’s creating a more diverse hiring process, understanding PM needs, or building a strong team, stories help us build empathy, trust, understanding, and connections. Try it today.

It’s been an inspiring couple days at #LeadDevLondon and it’s been fantastic to share the time with some of the YoungCapital dev team! Looking forward to sharing everything we’ve learned when we get back.

Shame is too often used as a teaching tool, but it rarely achieves those goals. More often it encourages disengagement and fear. Rather than shaming people for mistakes, create a learning opportunity and help them improve. @thisisfranklin@twitter.com #LeadDevLondon

My key takeaways from the first day at #LeadDevLondon. An excellent day! Looking forward to another one. #sketchnotes

So proud. 🇬🇧

Working on an idea for a talk about hiring and interviewing in tech. What’s one tip that changed how you think about being an interviewee or interviewer?

Highly recommend reading this if you use npm. It’s the text from a talk given at @JSConfEU@twitter.com on Saturday by @ceejbot@twitter.com. The story of how npm came to be is pretty intriguing if you don’t know it already, but the essay leads to a pretty interesting announcement: https://github.com/ceejbot/economics-of-package-management/blob/master/essay.md

TL;DR It’s a federated package registry for JavaScript. 😱 https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic/

Why yes I am listening to the Lego Movie 2 soundtrack. How are you?

@tas50@twitter.com I’m counting down the days to when Lego is no longer a significant choking hazard for Teddie.