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Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the typ…
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Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Let’s come up with an analogy and then torture it like we’re the Cheney administration: imagine you’ve just purchased a plot of land. What a...
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The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.
In our continuing effort to allow awesome developers to demonstrate their …awesomeness… we’ve added the ability to include your GitHub projects on your Careers 2.0 profile.
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How I (almost) got an internship at Google
I'm Evan Carmi, an engineering leader with 17 years of experience building software and managing teams, now transitioning into entrepreneurship to create products and solutions for people I care about.
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(1) Keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use, (3) iterate.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before
Don’t miss the latest posts Learn to Remember Everything: The memory palace technique or Remembering Facts: USING Mental associative chains If you are an avid self-improvement reader, you know already what timeboxing is. But maybe you don’t harness all its potential For the rest, timeboxing is a time management…
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The Tyranny of the Extroverts
Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page. Fortune 500 companies are run by 499 extroverts, plus Bill Gates. There are 435 extroverts in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, two from each state. In fact, the only introvert in the District of Columbia…
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Want to write some code? Get away from your computer
I’ve recently realised something. The best place to write code isn’t in front of your computer, with your compiler, IDE and tools. The best place to write code is far, far away from any of these tools – somewhere where you can think properly. For a language with which you are fairly familiar, the mechanics of…
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