3181
Topics /
Career & Management
The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
3182
Make Boring Plans
You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…
3183
3184
Golden Handcuffs
Stock-based compensation plans throughout the startup and tech sector are based on “golden handcuffs” – the idea that an employee can’t leave because they would be giving up too much money if they do. I’ve never loved that concept. It feels like staying in a bad marriage for the kids. So I have been involved […]
3185
3186
3187
2025 Hiring Pause
Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our endowment income, has now been added to existing concerns related to rapid growth and cost escalations. It…
3188
How to write a resume that converts
Keywords and outcomes that will get you an interview
3189
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.
3190
Code review review is the manager’s job
Code review is such a high value, high leverage team activity that every manager should ensure the process is done well.
3191
Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)
I'm surprised by the number of people inside Google who actually read my blog. I once did contemplate writing a "career guide for Googlers",...
3192
Managing time when time doesn't exist
The Ultimate Productivity Paradox
3193
3194
Being a Solo Software Entrepreneur at 40
A tale of growth, responsibilities, and limits.
3195
3196
Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
The creative studio of NYC-based designer and creative director, Able Parris
3197
3198
3199
My Experience Running Development at a Startup
Posts from the old antjanus.com blog (2012–2020), rebuilt from the Wayback Machine.
3200
Why I left news
I get asked two questions several times a week, and I brush off both with a verbal swat. One — because I’m in my late 20s, I suppose – is when are you getting married? And the other, because …
3201
Talk like a systems engineer: Yaks all the way down
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
3202
3203
3204
No code reviews by default
How we built an engineering culture based on trust that allows us to move incredibly fast without requiring code reviews.
3205
The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
Employees are quitting in droves. Learn what's fueling the mass job change.
3206
Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
How far is too far when it comes to including people with different beliefs?
3207
Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
My Initial experience with this brand new modular laptop
3208
The Timmy Trap
This is Part 2 of my LLM series. In Part 1 , I discussed how in just a few short years, we went from the childlike joy of creating “Pirate Poetry” to the despair that our jobs would disappear. My main message was to relax a bit, as companies abuse the hype cycle to distort what is actually happening.
3209
3210
Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.