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Sexism at Uber from Female Management
My last days at Uber in San Francisco were filled with disrespect, condescending managers, and sexism.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 215 posts.
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How do I know if I'm good at programming?
I was talking to a very junior programmer recently and he asked me a great question. A question so good, it made me stop and think about my perspective on how learning happens. The question was: “H…
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Never edit a method, always rewrite it?
At a recent RubyConf, Chad Fowler presented his ideas for writing software systems that mirror the process of continual replacement observed in biological systems.
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On Programming Languages: Why My Dad Went from Programming to Driving a Bus
I discuss, with stories, why programming language choice matters and provide guidelines, along with an infographic of popular 2017 languages.
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How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job
For the distinct purpose of getting a job in tech, side projects are either a great use of your time or a great waste of your time.
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The non-linearity of productivity
I happen to be going through a very productive time right now. I’m working on a project that I’m very excited about, and the threads are all coming together to create a very satisfying tapestry.
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An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage
[Note 2017-12-29: the news.ycombinator.com discussion of this post is unusually useful. You may want to read it first.] [Note 2018-09-01:...
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Goodbye Mozilla
Today is effectively my last day at Mozilla, before I start at Impossible on Monday. I’ve been here for 6 years and a bit and it’s been quite an experience. I think it’s worth reflecting on, so here we go; Fair warning, if you have no interest in me or Mozilla, this is going to make pretty boring reading.
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We Can Achieve Anything If We Stop Trying To Do Everything
All good thing take time to achieve. But if you rely on the power of compounding, you don't have to force things.
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Is there data on the quality of management decisions?
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated. A contentious example of this is the claim that companies can’t be discriminating because the market is too competitive to…
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A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (1993)
Little has been written on managing your own research (and very little on avoiding other people managing your research); however, your research is much more under your control than you may realize.
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Geek Career Paths
Suppose you’re doing technology, and like doing technology, and your career’s going well, and you find yourself wondering what you’re going to be doing in twenty years. I’ve been down several of the roads you might decide to take, and it occurs to me that talking them over might amuse and inform.
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Discretion still matters – don’t hurt your career by sharing too much
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70 job interviews in 17 days
When I was but a wee lad, I dreamed of being a janitor for NASA. There's just something awesome about playing a part, no matter how sma...
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Why I left Academia: Part I
Two months before defending my dissertation, I found out that a professor had published my own work ahead of me. My story caught the attention of academics all over the world, going viral in 2017. This post is about why I left academia, and what I discovered when Post-PhD the blog went viral: that I
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The no excuses culture
Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raini…
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Working at Netflix 2017
Working at Netflix, 2017: a personal update from a performance engineer about working at the company.
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Why I’m leaving 18F
On Election Night 2016, a few hours before the results were fully in, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I’m staying at 18F”. I felt it was…