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Small Teams
Patrick Collison has a great list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things. Inspired by that, I created a page of impressive things accomplished by small teams.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Measuring an engineering organization
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report monthly engineering metrics, what should I…
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Lessons Learned from the Book “Effective Remote Work”
Lessons Learned from the Book Effective Remote Work by James Stanier
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To be productive, be prepared
Motivation by itself gives us the willingness to do something, but nothing more. Once we make a start, the game changes and it becomes about knowing how to make progress.
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Worst interview questions for software developers
Forget these interview questions 🙅 and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).
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I am not a supplier
For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.
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Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
I got laid off from a software engineering job in April of 2020.
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Why T-shaped people? (2018)
Read this story without a paywall
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General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
From the depths of the IT world, there are things that you only learn through experience.
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“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
This is one of my favorite stories from all of my years in applying TOC. I use it frequently in my consulting work and again it's totally tr...
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I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
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Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
Deep work Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive? If I am a salesman or project coordinator that way of…
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“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)
Wrong estimates aren’t your fault, but they are definitely your problem
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Writing good performance self reviews
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
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What I do when I feel like giving up (2015)
I am struggling today, and maybe you are too. Don't give up yet, though. Read this article to learn what I remind myself of when I want to give up...
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Scrum has failed the developers
But there’s a way out of the misery
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Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
This post is by Phil Price, not Andrew. I’ve had a run of luck ever since I left my staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to become a freelance consultant doing statistical modeling and forecasting, mostly related to electricity consumption and prices: just as I finished a contract, another one…
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How to move fast and not break things as a remote company
The Facebook-era “move fast and break things” startup motto no longer applies in today’s hyper-competitive environment. This is especially true for SaaS startups like Jam, where customers trust and rely on their products to complete their work. If you’ve met anyone on the Jam team, you
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Hi, hello, I’m back at it
*peeks hesitantly around the corner* Hey everyone. Tomorrow, after almost 7 months of a sabbatical break, I’m resuming regular publication of kottke.org. (Actua
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Company, Team, Self
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This company/team/self framework proved itself a helpful decision-making tool, and almost always led to the…
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At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold.By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceXI have watched the recent news…
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Goodbye, data science
This is more of a personal post than something intended to be profound. If you are looking for a point, you will not find one here. Frankly I am not even sure who the target audience is for this (p…
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Open Source and Saying “No”
An Open Source project can balloon to extreme sizes and then lose purpose of why it started - a rant.
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