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Do things, write about it
One of my favorite phrases is “Do things, tell people”. I came across it in Carl Lange’s eponymous post and could instantly relate.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,086 posts.
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Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets
By PATRICK RILEY For a number of years, I led the data science team for Google Search logs. We were often asked to make sense of confusin...
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Welcome Kat, Yuri, Patrick, and Elizabeth
I’m delighted to announce a promotion and three additions to the YC team. Kat Manalac has been our director of outreach since 2013. She’s done an incredible job, and we’re making her a partner. In addition to regular partner responsibilities, she’ll continue to be responsible for outreach to prospective founders and…
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Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
I fail phone screens pretty often, which limits my job prospects and is embarrassing for someone with ten years of industry experience, a pretty extensive Github account and a publicly available list of difference-making projects . 1 In theory a phone screen is supposed to evaluate whether a) this person would be good…
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Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
When I was 16 I was visited by a man who said he had come from the future. He had traveled twenty years back to 1999 to sit down with me and have a chat. We talked for an hour...
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Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet
Manu Cornet's personal website.
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Where do you find the time for side projects?
You work 40 hours per week. You have family commitments. How can you work on your side-hustle, when you have a limited amount of energy and time?
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Stock options are complicated
Most employees at startups get some of their pay in stock options. This is often framed to the employee as “you get x percentage of equity in the company.” Unfortunately, stock options are a lot more complex than true equity.
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Work/Life Balance Will Make You a Better Software Engineer
It’s tempting to believe that taking your work home will make you a better software engineer, and that work/life balance will limit your learning. For some software developers programming isn’t just a job: it’s something to do for fun, sometimes even a reason for being. If you love coding and coding is your job, why…
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Questions to ask in interviews
As my RC batch draws to a close, I’m interviewing once again. In the vein of Julia Evans’ great blog post, “Questions I’m asking in interviews” , here’s a set of questions to ask your recruiter, interviewers, and/or prospective manager.
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Shutting Down a Dream
When I was 17 years old, I wrote a little Applesoft BASIC program to help myself memorize vocabulary for my Spanish class. When I went to college, I wrote a new version for the Mac, adding special features for Japanese. Senior year I wrote two new versions – one for my
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Why you should write
Be a creator, not just a consumer.
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Nobody Cares
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
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Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
The bottleneck has shifted from implementation to specification.
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Misidentifying talent
Out of context, you might think they were scouting actors or models, but these are baseball players ("A" is Lloyd Moseby, "B" is Jim Abbott, and "C" is Derek Jeter), ones that were quite good (Lloyd Moseby was arguably only a very good player for perhaps four years, but that makes him extraordinary compared to most…
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How Software Companies Die (1995)
Home Page for Charles Rosenberg
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Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
The world often hands us what are called
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Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard
Read this if you're thinking about quitting. I personally think about quitting three or four times a month. I've found a way to NOT quit.
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No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it's tempting to "quickly" ask someone for support when you get stuck.
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Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms
Apprenticeships beat schooling. Here's why they're a superior method for learning, and how you can apply this to the things you want to master.
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Taking a month off from OSS volunteering
On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of my job, I spent absolutely zero time helping any project outside of work (so no evenings, no weekends). This was the first