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Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building
Here I sit, in a cabin on Lake Superior by the fire, with late-season snow pelting the windows and ominous waves crashing against the rocky shore.
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Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
Framing our programming careers in terms of knowledge accumulation and decay can yield some interesting insights.
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Founder Depression
If you ask a founder how her startup is going, the answer is almost always some version of “Great!” There is a huge amount of pressure as a founder to never show weakness and to be the...
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Work on What Matters
I’ve taken to using the word “energized” over “impactful.” “Impactful” feels company-centric, and while that’s important, “energized” is more inwards-looking. Finding energizing work is what has kept me at Stripe for so long, pursuing impactful work. - Michelle Bu We all have a finite amount of time to live, and…
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People don't work as much as they say
There is a persistent idea that people work 40 hours a week. They don't, and if you try to do this it will break you. Here are some more reasonable guidelines.
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Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
Update : this post has comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692026 You're a member of a team that is part of a large organiza...
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Guide to Equity Compensation
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
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A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
A practical guide to a good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
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The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
Compare fast payout casinos on withdrawal speed, crypto and e-wallet options, payout limits, KYC steps and fees. Ten ranked sites explained. 21+. 1-800-GAMBLER.
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North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
WILMINGTON, N.C.—Wayne Nutt is an engineer. He graduated with a degree in engineering and worked most of his career in North Carolina without ever needing […]
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Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
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The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard
Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time I’ve: Talked to zero potential …
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I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
UPDATE 2: There's a few things I want to clear up here about certain assumptions made about what exactly happened. Prior to the database...
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I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
I have hit the point where I can't do anything for fun anymore. Every hobby is not an attempt to make some extra money or turn it into profit.
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The Document Culture of Amazon
A look at Amazon's culture of writing and reading
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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
1. It is possible to turn a mediocre job into a great one
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My seatbelt rule for judgment
One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch the dashboard. How ridiculous! What’s…
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
A system for leveling up at Square
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Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech
Outside my day job doing compiler research at Shopify, I lead the Cheshire Yeomanry , a squadron of British Army Reserve light cavalry . I spend about a hundred days a year of my spare-time in evenings, weekends, and holidays, training my Squadron.
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Groups never admit failure
Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to. A group will never admit they were wrong. More