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Dear Academia, I loved you, but I’m leaving you (2014)
[Another submission from a former postdoc at one of the top ten universities in the U.S. The e-mail came to me as follows: "I read your b...
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Career & Management
The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (2016)
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How to market to developers on Twitter: Learnings from 4 months of Supabase feed
Sep 01, 2026 - Learnings from going over 4 months of Supabase Twitter feed. Social media marketing tips for dev-focused companies.
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Being a Female Developer
Insights for leaders building AI systems by Andela
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Want to write some code? Get away from your computer
I’ve recently realised something. The best place to write code isn’t in front of your computer, with your compiler, IDE and tools. The best place to write code is far, far away from any of these tools – somewhere where you can think properly. For a language with which you are fairly familiar, the mechanics of…
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A Path to Full-time Open Source
Two years ago today I released Sidekiq Pro, my commercial extension to Sidekiq, as an experiment to see if I could make OSS development financially viable for individual developers. I had no idea if anyone would trust me and buy it. Can you think of anyone else selling a Rubygem?
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What A CEO Does
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career. I was working on a CEO search for one of our struggling portfolio comapnies. We had a bunch of them. I […]
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Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)
There's a blind spot in Carta's 83(b) election feature you need to know about if you're married and living in California.
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A Distributed Meeting Primer
As a leader who primarily values team health, I place great value on the weekly 1:1 because it’s where I assess health. It’s my highest bandwidth meeting, and h
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Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Some lessons learned
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why
Everyone mocks the Microsoft stack until they see the bills. What our .NET and SQL Server setup really costs to run, compared to the cool-kid alternatives.
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Show me the salary!
This website is for sale! jobbox.io is your first and best source for information about jobbox. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and careers; and how can you prepare for this shift?
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Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly
What I've learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
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Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio
Friday was my 9 year anniversary of starting as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. Monday I was laid off.
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How to run a miserable code review
Code reviews are a performance nobody paid for
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