Weekly Reading List

This page contains a list of articles I've read and found interesting over the past week.

Over the past week, I have been reading about software history and UI quirks, quantum security, free online courses from top universities, delivery principles and product-management insights, governance lessons in action, and reflections on fraud and coding culture.

Wednesday - 24 June 2026

• In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words - The Old New Thing

  Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren’t word processors.

  Tags: software development, user interface, spell check, word processor, Microsoft Word

  Author: Raymond Chen

Tuesday - 23 June 2026

• The Coming Quantum National Security Crisis

  China and Russia are harvesting encrypted secrets—and getting closer to cracking them.

  Tags: national security, Cybersecurity, China, Quantum Technology, Russia

  Author: Anne Neuberger

• 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

  Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

  Tags: Art History, Free Online Courses, Higher Education, MOOCs, Humanities

  Author: nan

Monday - 22 June 2026

• Mike Potter: Government must stop writing lessons learned and start acting on them

  Ahead of chairing Government Transformation Summit on 25 June, former UK Government Chief Digital Officer Mike Potter joined us to reflect on what more than a decade of digital transformation has achieved, and where government still needs to go next.

  Tags: leadership, digital transformation, Public Sector, Artificial Intelligence, government transformation

  Author: Tim Coulthard

• Making Delivery Fun Again: What Happens When You Stop Making Work So Serious

  A PM’s honest account of building a team culture that people actually want to show up for.

  Tags: workplace productivity, psychological safety, team culture, Agile Methodology, neurodiversity

  Author: Grace Lawry

• public_documents/design/Poster-A3-Delivery-Principles-version-1-1.pdf at main · digitalservicebund/public_documents

  Contribute to digitalservicebund/public_documents development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Tags: Digital Government , User-Centered Design, service design, Public Sector, Digital Services

  Author: digitalservicebund

• Freiheit und Vorgaben in der Entwicklung – wie uns Delivery-Prinzipien leiten | DigitalService

  18. June 2026 - We describe how our 12 delivery principles help our teams make decisions quickly and develop high-quality, user-centered software.

  Tags: software development, Digital Government , product management, User-Centered Design, digital transformation

  Author: 18. June 2026 author: Dr. Clara Völker | Stephanie Kaiser | Martin Jordan

• Freiheit und Vorgaben in der Entwicklung – wie uns Delivery-Prinzipien leiten | DigitalService

  18. Juni 2026 - Wir beschreiben, wie unsere 12 Delivery-Prinzipien unseren Teams helfen, schnell Entscheidungen zu treffen und nutzerzentrierte Software mit hoher Qualität zu entwickeln.

  Tags: software development, government projects, product management, digital transformation, interdisciplinary teams

  Author: 18. Juni 2026 Von: Dr. Clara Völker | Stephanie Kaiser | Martin Jordan

• We were wrong about product managers

  At PostHog, product managers (PMs) exist to bring clarity and context to their teams, not to tell them what to do. Most companies get this wrong. What produc…

  Tags: software development, team collaboration, product management, leadership, posthog

  Author: PostHog

• Ask for no, don’t ask for yes – Dan Moore!

  nan

  Tags: workplace productivity, decision-making, leadership, management strategies, professional communication

  Author: moore

• Did my old job only exist because of fraud? – It’s not about code

  nan

  Tags: startup culture, fraud, software startups, venture capital, technology entrepreneurship

  Author: Austin