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How great would it be if the solution to most errors you face were in the first place you looked? That’s what the Arch Wiki has been for me: a massive wealth of information and troubleshooting resources to help me navigate the various configuration and installation issues I’ve encountered. Some people claim Arch Linux…
Bad managers and CRE bagholders lost, competent employees and internet-savvy teams won ...arbitrary authoritarian control over your work-life is so 1900s
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
Lessons learned from a year of startup life.
"Destroying silos" is a clumsy solution to team isolation
I knew the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Statistical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences had problems. It turns out the American Sociological Association does some bad things too.
Few can measure the impact of a blog post they wrote, in the millions of dollars a year, but Patrick McKenzie has the receipts
Last Updated: January 24, 2026One of the most enlightening moments in my career was when I discovered a…
On a supposedly difficult thing
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
There's a blind spot in Carta's 83(b) election feature you need to know about if you're married and living in California.
When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate…
Quitting my job to start a company
Projects and thoughts from James Porter
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
The start of my sabbatical has given me a moment to reflect on my publications. But my CV only shows a list of neatly cataloged papers: title, authors, conference. Each one appearing no different from another. But how each paper ended up published is its own story, a story about people and opportunity.
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall...
Including me
Software engineering salaries come from one of 3 budgets. Which budget pays your salary shapes your day-to-day and influences your career trajectory
Many programmers subscribe to the belief that they need large blocks of uninterrupted time to get anything done. Paul Graham wrote about this in Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule :
Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
The new normal in tech recruiting
How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style
A plea for more respect for documentation and technical writing in the software development industry.
I created The low-tech guys, a brand under which I develop macOS apps for a living. I started this business with a good friend of mine, thinking I could help him stop working long hours at his consulting job and ease into more creative work. However, getting to a state where you earn enough to live off the app sales…
Don’t just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical sp…
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are...
From a person who really shouldn't be giving others advice.
My partner and I both work from home. I'm very thankful for that as we have two young children and a commute would take up the same time we ...
