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Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy
This post made it to the top of Hacker News, sparking some great debate. See the discussion here. It’s a common narrative in tech to design products with the assumption that users are stupid …
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Hi! I'm Ozzie. I'm an engineering manager / product builder. I am co-founder at Monarch Money and lead author of the Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring.
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Is revenue model more important than culture?
HN Discussion Here: I always loved getting problems of the type “What is the limit as x approaches infinity” type in high-school/college. You’re given an equation (of the classic y=x format), and a…
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A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev
This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I’m sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing the crazy times we’re exper…
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Things to do before and after you write code
The most effective engineers I’ve worked with were effective not just because of how they wrote code, but because of things they did when they were not writing code. Here’s my (growing)…
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Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
Another day, another HackerNews discussion about hiring being broken. The most recent one I saw was triggered by a blog post by the formidable Aline Lerner (disclaimer: Aline is a friend and we col…