(Post theme: Bullsh*t Baby! by aleksiah)
Unlike the last couple of reviews in my work ‘training and development’ series, this one for Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects will be very short. Unfortunately, that’s because of the “if you can’t say anything nice” rule — and I don’t even think it’s worth a detailed critique. Just avoid it.
A few lowlights: obvious, tedious, lengthy words on diagrams, where the diagrams themselves probably do convey information well but are ugly, and beauty matters; remote work “insights” that seem like they come from someone that has never spent any serious time doing remote work (I was reminded of all the terrible advice from people who suddenly started during COVID); a near total disregard for cultural differences; and way too much self-hype.
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