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One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was made
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
Everyone in tech seems to have a “terrible tech interview” story. The topic quietly orbits in the ether of our industry and periodically bursts through the a...
Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
I'd like to present five books that have changed my mind about software development showing me lots of concepts, techniques and tips. Let's see them and why I they were so valuable to me
Edit, 11/20/2023: If you like this post, it inspired a book co-written by me and Liz Zalman. You can find it here. One of my portfolio companies raised a round a few months ago and I left their boa…
Networking is painful, and I’m suspicious of anyone who claims to enjoy it. Unfortunately for me, networking is effective.
When I talk about balancing being directive and empowering as a leader, the distinction between being kind and being nice often comes up.
Executive Mandates driving Product Execution via Project Management
Since it’s application season again, I thought that I would share some things that you are ‘allowed’ to do in academia but may not be aware of. This post is inspired by Milan Cvitkovic’s post on ‘Things you’re allowed to do’ and Veronika Cheplygina’s posts on advice for Ph.D. students, in particular her post ‘7 things…
I guess I know something about train wrecks. One night when I was 10 years old, me and my mom were driving home. We came to a train crossin...
This is a story about a time I lost my swagger.
Most of us learn how to write technical articles by osmosis. After reading a hundred or so papers, we unconsciously pick up the common patterns of the field and begin to imitate them. This phenomenon is largely beneficial, but there are several truly odious habits that are almost universally and inadvertently adopted…
One of the most common mistakes I see people make when looking at data is incorrectly using an overly simplified model. A specific variant of this that has derailed the majority of work roadmaps I've looked at is treating people as interchangeable, as if it doesn't matter who is doing what, as if individuals don't…
Desire is not a Strategy
Do you ever get the feeling that you are always a consumer and never a contributor to a library? Would you like to get more involved in open source projects and don’t know how? This is the&nb…
Introduction I have around ~50k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days before it hit 1.7k stars. Humans
Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,
Hot take after a year or so of trying to build a developer community. If you can pick only one, use forum software rather than synchronous chat software for community building around a developer platform.
(5 Min Read) This change guarantees better signals from the interviewing candidates.
