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Functional Generalist
Functional Generalist
A Site For Interesting Things I Make or Do
·functionalgeneralist.com·
Functional Generalist
Who can you trust with your online business?
Who can you trust with your online business?
I get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when I have to tell someone that there is something deeply wrong with their website—especially when I know that it is too late to fix it. I hate that feeling. And I felt it twice recently.
·cloudfour.com·
Who can you trust with your online business?
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting…
·medium.com·
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs
At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.
·reidhoffman.org·
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Update (Sept 2014): I gave a talk on this topic during lecture 1 of Stanford’s CS 183B course. Check out the video if you’d like to hear more about deciding to become an entrepreneur. I’ve also added…
·medium.com·
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?”  I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
·blog.samaltman.com·
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
As someone who’s been in the tech industry for more than 15 years, I’ve come to recognize a fundamental truth about being a software dev: the key to
·vadimkravcenko.com·
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
Staying Sharp
Staying Sharp
Why Interview Even When You’re Happy
·developing.dev·
Staying Sharp
Online business ideas and growth playbooks that actually work
Online business ideas and growth playbooks that actually work
Real experiences on growing an audience, driving traffic, and turning your knowledge into products that sell on autopilot with practical and repeatable playbooks.
·playbooks.com·
Online business ideas and growth playbooks that actually work
"Just"
"Just"
I feel like an idiot while doing my job. A lot. Now there’s a damn good chance I’m actually an idiot, but the self-respecting part of me wants to challenge that notion. When I get stuck on a task or am looking for recommendations for tools/resources/strategies/solutions/whatever, I often take
·bradfrost.com·
"Just"
Mental Models: 349 Models Explained
Mental Models: 349 Models Explained
Here are 349 mental models explained to carry around in your head. Make better decisions with the right toolbox of mental models.
·junto.investments·
Mental Models: 349 Models Explained
Good Managers Don’t Make These Mistakes
Good Managers Don’t Make These Mistakes
To break unhealthy patterns of thinking and acting, managers need to pay special attention to how they communicate, collaborate and get…
·code.likeagirl.io·
Good Managers Don’t Make These Mistakes
The Feynman Technique
The Feynman Technique
The following article was first published in Custo
·colorado.edu·
The Feynman Technique
Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle
You might be the Tech Lead, but you don’t decide how your team develops software — their cultural ecology does.
·anderssundman.medium.com·
Welcome to the Jungle
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) - Symptoms and causes
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) - Symptoms and causes
This childhood mental health condition includes frequent and persistent anger, irritability, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness toward authority.
·mayoclinic.org·
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) - Symptoms and causes
Demand avoidance
Demand avoidance
Resistance to demands is a characteristic experienced by and observed in some autistic people. It is sometimes labelled as Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), but there is debate about the evidence for and usefulness of this label.
·autism.org.uk·
Demand avoidance
#35 A Tech Sales Guide: Stop Selling Technicalities, Start Selling Outcomes
#35 A Tech Sales Guide: Stop Selling Technicalities, Start Selling Outcomes
As engineers, we love our technical solutions, but business leaders speak a different language. Learn how to turn your technical proposals into outcomes that the business cares about.
·newsletter.fractionalarchitect.io·
#35 A Tech Sales Guide: Stop Selling Technicalities, Start Selling Outcomes
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger
In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.
·fs.blog·
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger
How to Monetize a Blog
How to Monetize a Blog
A guide on turning your diary into dollars.
·modem.io·
How to Monetize a Blog
Primal world beliefs
Primal world beliefs
In psychology, primal world beliefs (also known as primals) are basic beliefs which humans hold about the general character of the world. They were introduced and named by Jeremy D. W. Clifton and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania between 2014–2019 and modeled empirically via statistical dimensionality reduction analysis in a 2019 journal article.[1] This publication posited twenty-six primal world beliefs that people held. Most cluster under the beliefs that the world is Safe, Enticing and Alive, which in turn cluster under the overall belief that the world is Good.[1] The beliefs that the world is Just or Dangerous had received extensive prior study in other research on the just-world belief, which is the belief the world is a karmic place where outcomes are typically deserved.[1] Each primal is modeled as a normally-distributed continuous variable.[2] Research has shown that primals remain quite stable over time, including across the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][3] Primal world beliefs are largely independent of most demographic variables, but correlate strongly with many personality and wellbeing variables—including depression, optimism, spirituality, extraversion, curiosity, and so forth.[1] Researchers think that primals may affect a wide range of human experiences, from parenting[4][need quotation to verify] to political ideology.[5][need quotation to verify]
·en.m.wikipedia.org·
Primal world beliefs
Designing a Technical Interview
Designing a Technical Interview
Poor technical interviews lead to bad experiences for both employers and candidates. Let's change that.
·nicholashairs.com·
Designing a Technical Interview