One healthy way to make a team more productive is when its members feel safe.
When psychological safety exists in a team, people will say more things like:
- I need some help
- I have an idea
- I think we have a problem
- I disagree
- I'd like to challenge our ways of working
- I made a mistake
- I made a really big mistake
If you use Homebrew on your Mac, you can create a Brewfile and significantly reduce the time to set up your next Mac. I haven't done this, but it's tempting. Here's Casey Liss's.
(I have done the equivalent on Windows, using Boxstarter, which in turn uses Chocolatey. Especially neat on servers, I find.)
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