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Why I left Microsoft
By Scott Berkun, May 2005 My reasons for leaving Microsoft were the opposite of why I went to work there. I arrived at Microsoft a scared kid just out of college. I was desperate to start my life, …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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The Apprentice Programmer (2013)
I dropped out of school when I was 16 years old. School was not for me. To me, computers were so much more interesting. Right or wrong, I felt like I wasted my time there and my real education was starting when I came home. I lost respect for the institution and of course this meant that I no longer bothered to put any
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Don’t bite the shit sandwich
The “startup” world is bursting with bullshit (or, if you prefer, ‘unicorn dust’). There are bullshit peddlers on every blog-corner. They don’t want
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Indie, alone, and figuring it out
Going indie looks like freedom from the outside. But once you’re in it, you face loneliness, pressure, constant decisions, user feedback, and all the invisible work no one warns you about. This is what the journey feels like, and why it’s still worth it.
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Burnout
What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.
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6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup
I joined Scale AI late last summer. It’s been a crazy experience — Scale is growing incredibly fast right now, hitting a valuation of over $7 billion last year and recently signing a $250 mil…
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The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
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Show success before asking for help
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Build Wide, Ship Narrow
Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in before a single line of code existed.
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Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab
Dava Newman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab.
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On Hubris and Humility
Last week I gave a talk at the Open Source Firmware Conference about some of the work I’m doing at Oxide Computer, entitled On Hubris and Humility. There is a video of the talk if you’d like to watch it in video form. It came out pretty alright!
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Building big systems with remote hardware teams
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need. This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need create some daily efficiency challenges for our team. As a remote-first company, we’re…
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Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools
This is the first part of a two part masterclass on remote work, now live here: 01:46 Meet Shogun, the e-commerce page builder 02:58 They started fully remote as a side project that became...
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Stefan Tilkov has died
INNOQ Deutschland mourns the loss of its co-founder and CEO, Stefan Tilkov
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Showing up
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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10 years of entrepreneurship
I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. I almost didn't realize it, but there's no escaping the math. In the ...
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First Time vs Serial Entrepreneurs
I've been thinking a lot about the differences between first time and serial entrepreneurs. We invest in both and do not have a preference betweeen the two. But there are significant differences. The best first time entrepreneurs have been stewing on their idea for quite a while. It is a personal passion of theirs and…
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Surviving Your First Year
For startups the primary goals for that first year are to, 1) set up the company, 2) build and launch your product, and, 3) survive. Here's how to do it.
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Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows
I've created a set of install scripts for Windows that helps people install many different programming languages using standard tools.
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The Infuriating Truth About Getting Hired
ArticulateVentures.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
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