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title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 22, 2022 💐'
date: '2022-02-22T21:11:26-08:00'
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# Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 22, 2022 💐

### [How to make the most out of a mentoring relationship](https://github.blog/2022-02-16-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-a-mentoring-relationship/)

Whether or not you have a formal or more casual mentor in your life, the benefits of a trusted confidant reach far beyond increased engagement and sense of belonging (which, is convincing on its own—we know!). According to our 2021 State of the Octoverse Report, when a commitment to mentorship is combined with friendly and timely code reviews, teams see a 46% boost in productivity in open source projects and 16% in companies.

### [What I learned running a SaaS for a year](https://onlineornot.com/what-learned-running-saas-for-year)

I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no other side projects. I managed to keep this going for about 10 months this year (with a cheeky 2 month burnout in the middle).

### [Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness](https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/top-performers-have-a-superpower-happiness/)

The toll that working through the global pandemic has taken on employees’ job satisfaction and emotional well-being has focused business leaders on fostering workforce happiness as never before. While many — if not most — of us are motivated by genuine caring for the people who power our organizations, we also intuitively know that employee happiness should boost job performance. Still, two nagging questions remain: Which comes first, succeeding and then being happy, or being happy and then succeeding? And just how much does initial happiness matter?

### [The Crunchbase Unicorn Board](https://news.crunchbase.com/news/crunchbase-unicorn-board-4-trillion-value/)

There are now more than 1,200 current unicorn startups—private companies valued at $1 billion or more—in the world, per The Crunchbase Unicorn Board.

> Also, there is a 3H Portland channel on Discord if that's more your bag: <https://t.co/c5Ogt0CHH5>
> 
> — Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) [February 23, 2022](https://twitter.com/helenleigh/status/1496286292027801600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)