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This week Michael Lopp (VP Engineering @ Slack) posted a summary of Tweets responding to the question "Regardless of seniority every good manager will...". I took that list and tried to correlate the responses into several buckets. I used Trello to visualize this. https://trello.com/b/Wr78Mx6k/good-managers I came up with five buckets: Compassion/Empathy - Feel like a human and realize others feel too.Give/Take Feedback - Listen to others, tell them what's going right & wrong, and do the same for yourself.Filter/Map/Reduce - Take in the world above and turn it into smaller things that are important for your people to know.Unblock - Don't be an obstacle for your people to succeed - and help remove obstacles from their paths.Trust - Everyone is an adult and was hired for a reason - trust them in their decisions and make sure to gain your people's trust.

In the spirit of yesterday's post, I'm going to list out what I use every day in terms of software. This isn't exhaustive but it's pretty darn close. General Utilities1Password - Probably the best password manager out there combined with mobile appsCloudup - quick way to share images, videos, text (ask me for a referral code)Coffitivity - coffeehouse sounds to help boost productivityCyberduck - SFTP clientDaisyDisk - finding where all my space has goneDropboxEvernote - where I keep my larger notes, graphics, PDF filesParallels Desktop - for the occasional booting of old Mac OS & Windows VMsRadium - menu bar radio streamingRdio - monthly subscription-based song streamingRescueTime - track my app usage to determine if I'm distractedSimplenote - for my quick note taking needsSkype - sadly yesSlack - communication for our team - web socket-based system like HipChat but betterGraphicsAdobe Photoshop CC - go-to app for image editingAperture (more for personal use)Balsamiq Mockups - easy mockupsBartender - organize your menu bar extras areaCamtasia 2 - screen castsColor PickerJoin.me - easy screen sharing - I use it more for helping people fix computer problems remotelyPixelmatorSnagItDevelopment - GeneralBase - for digging around SQLite files; especially handy debugging Core DataCharles - proxying application for testing remote callsHockeyApp - binary distribution for testingKaleidoscope - arguably the most beautiful diff tool - ignore whitespace is still not a feature :(PHPStorm - for when I have to get into WordPress and WordPress.com API codingTextMate - Still my favorite text editorTextual - Mac IRC clientDevelopment - iOSAppCode - alternative IDE for Objective-C - I switch between Xcode and here for specific reasons (future post?)iExplorer - could not live without the ability to dig around device filesystemsPaintCode - easiest way to get Core Graphics code from images or hand-drawn UI elementsReflector - transmit your iOS device screen to your computer for recordingSpark Inspector - interactively debug your UIView layers & NSNotificationCenter callsXcodexScope - helpful UI tools for your MacDevelopment - AndroidAndroid StudioGenymotion - Android VM manager - lurv