# asgard (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover asgard. Page: Feed: --- ## [Video Games Improve Peer Reviews](https://imperialwicket.com/video-games-concepts-improve-peer-reviews/) _2024-12-15 · imperialWicket_ I’ve been reading and writing engineering peer reviews for a long time (almost twenty years - where does the time go?), and the vast majority of these are a waste of time for the reviewer and the individual in question. For the record, I think peer reviews are fantastic and we should leverage them more - but they need to be carefully structured and cultivated so that everyone benefits from… ## [Good Technical Interviews Don't Scale](https://imperialwicket.com/good-technical-interviews-dont-scale/) _2024-12-03 · imperialWicket_ We all know that technical interviews are broken. Or so say the majority of the folks on the internet who have an opinion to share. I want to join the side of the argument who admits that something isn’t working for technical interview models, but I think “broken” is the wrong word. I want to argue that technical interviews tend to optimize for the wrong things, and the… ## [Why are you still writing performance reviews?](https://imperialwicket.com/why-are-you-still-writing-performance-reviews/) _2024-11-28 · imperialWicket_ This is not a post about using \ to write your performance reviews. Don’t do that. This is a post about how to leverage your team to do a lot of your performance review work on your behalf. This works best on growth oriented teams that cultivate a high degree of psychological safety ( I have thoughts about achieving this ). It will also work better if your leadership… ## [Attention to Dependencies Breeds Maintainability](https://imperialwicket.com/attention-to-dependencies-breeds-maintainability/) _2024-11-12 · imperialWicket_ I recently read Ease of maintenance is a feature along with some HN commentary . I walked away from this nodding emphatically along with the concept that ease of maintenance is a feature , and choosing sides among the crowd who are for or against a particular implementation or language. I also walked away a little angry that Ronak pointed out something important, gave some candidate assessment…