Tech Solvency / Resources

General

Getting Things Done - David Allen's approach; highly recommended
43 Folders - a geek approach to Getting Thing Done. Pretty much everything here is worth reflecting on
Feedly - stop checking websites for new information
Lifehacker - figuring out better ways to do things
The Criteria For Choosing One Thing to Do (Thinking Directions)
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Clayton M. Christensen)

Attention, Focus, and Study

Asking as a Substitute for Thinking by Jeremy Zawodny
Useful mental models (defmacro)
ADHD trait of "a million projects" as adaptive strategy (@mspowahs)
The Importance of Deep Work (Azeria)
Work On What Matters (Will Larson)
Tom Sachs' Ten Bullets: a summary (Terence L. Brasch III) and the video
Your Brain on Progress (Increment)
How to study effectively (Psyche)
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (The Observer)

Email

Email bankruptcy - good introductory article from the Washington Post
Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload - from Stever Robbins of the Harvard Business School
Becoming an Email Ninja - by Merlin Mann
The Tyranny of Email - by Ole Eichhorn
Overcoming E-Mail Overload at Work - NPR story (Feb 2005) featuring Marilyn Paul
Inbox Zero - Merlin Mann's series of posts on email management
Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero presentation to Google
Five Sentences - an email discipline that encourages focus and brevity
10 ways to get a grip on your e-mail - by Anne Fisher of Fortune
E-mania: Ethical Approaches to E-mail Overload - by Miriam Schulman
The Low-Information Diet - by Tim Ferriss
Writing sensible email messages - by Merlin Mann
GTD: Email Inbox from 11,000 to Zero (and keeping it that way)
Patterns for email as work conversation (hosted by Merlin Mann)
The E-mail Productivity Curve - why people love email but also hate it - by Caln Newport

Security

Cyber ITL - non-profit project from @dotMudge to create the infosec equivalent of UL
NIST: Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals
Google security/privacy settings/reports:
- https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb
- https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
- https://www.google.com/settings/ads/
- https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions
- https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/search_history
Motherboard Guide to Using Facebook Safely
Test the privacy of your email in transit

Meetings

Meetings are Not For You (Rands)
A Distributed Meeting Primer (Rands)

Technical Self-help

How to Ask Questions The Smart Way by Eric Raymond

Technical tools

Loopy - a tool for visualizing processes using classic systems analysis (inflows, outflows, stores, etc.)
CIRCLean - sanitize USBs off-net prior to use

Technical leadership

Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path (Keavy McMinn)
Yes! and ... (how to be effective in the theatre of work) (Tom Chritchlow)
What does it mean to be smart? (Seth Godin)
Joining hypergrowth startups (Andreas Klinger)
Variability, industrialization and hating your job (Seth Godin)

Add-ons

Add-ons for Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird and other software that I find useful

Organizational/Cultural

An antidote to incivility
How to Rands - a practical, focused approach to being a geek manager
Navigating Team Friction by Lara Hogan
Real Work vs Imaginary Work
Christy Majors on the nature of leadership and power
It's now your fault they don't know about it (rachelbythebay)

Other tips

How to get a job
Hard drives by price/TB
Wifi/gateway/router security checklist
Mozilla website security guidelines
CIRCLean - USB sanitizer (Pi-based media sanitization station)
Raspbery Pi in-depth basic tutorial
The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding State Surveillance
An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia
Writing Tips for IT Professionals (Lenny Zeltser)
Rands on WFH in the time of COVID-19
Career Advice (Moxie Marlinspike)
The Eight Degrees of Ignorance and Stupidity