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Growing from engineer to manager
Your success is now determined more by the success of your team than by your individual contributions.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,748 posts.
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Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments
There’s a trend among start-ups (and some larger companies) that worries me: giving candidates “homework” assignments. Homework assignments lead to candidate abuse. Knock it off (or at least be reasonable). I’ve seen many friends and clients go through this. As a pre-screening round before an onsite
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Am I stuck in a local maximum?
On long-standing controversies, biases, and failures of communication.
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Why Won't You Answer My Question?
I've spent more time than I would like to admit on various Q&A sites and forums related to development, where I have answered thousands of questions. Generally, the questions stay within the confines of such forums, however after waking up to my personal inbox being flooded with a
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No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons
Part 3 of my 12-year journey—what my first rocky job taught me about boundaries and value.
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I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS
I've decided not to work with Aubrey de Grey or SENS in any capacity moving forward. I had one bad experience with him when I was 17 - he told me in writing that he had an ‘adventurous love life’...
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Leaderless Teams
Subscribe ◎⁃◎ Hello, Welcome to Connecting Dots, the monthly newsletter on Innovation Leadership by Brett Macfarlane . I’m back in London after recent visits to Spain, France, Netherlands and Canada. Everywhere I went, the need for leadership to do more
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The Software Developer’s Guide to Fitness & Morning Productivity
해외 라이선스를 취득한 플랫폼에서 베팅하는 방법을 알아봅시다. 이 가이드에서 최고의 해외 카지노 사이트 10곳을 소개합니다. 카지노 리뷰와 신뢰할 수 있는 라이선스 종류를 파악하고, 안전한 플랫폼을 선별하고 가입하는 방법을 설명합니다.
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Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive
On the topic of life lessons from a born pessimist.
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Nobody Cares (2011)
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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My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant
Early on in my professional life, I was given some fairly terrible career advice: make yourself indispensable .
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Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them
If you are a good developer and you’ve worked in bad organizations, you often have ideas to improve the process. The famous Joel Test is a collection of 12 such ideas. Some of these ideas h…
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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
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Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers
Programming is a skill in demand. Programming can get you a job. A guide to finding good programmers, Perl and otherwise.
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The Startup Diet: How I Lost 35 Pounds While Working Overtime
I recently decided to change the way I was taking care of my body. It should be no surprise that I am always on my computer – at least 12-15 hours per day. I am 5' 9" but used to weigh an undesirable 170-175 pounds. Most of this was brought on during my first years of college. I entered college as a
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How To Be A Horrible Boss
I’ve been working in the tech sector for over two decades now. That means I’ve had more bosses than I can remember. The ones who left an indelible impression in my brain were in the extremes: either great or horrible. There are many books written about how to be a great boss, for example Managing Humans . Today I’m…
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41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
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What I wish someone had told me
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...
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Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization Framework
I went to my boss and said to him, “You know, I’m going to go do this crazy thing and I’m going to start this company selling books online.” This was something that I had already been talking to him about in a sort of more general context, but then he said, “Let’s go on a walk.” And, we went on a two hour walk in…