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A friend who went back to school recently asked for public speaking tips, here's what I told her.

5 secrets behind Steve Jobs’ iconic keynote speeches.

Think of software design patterns but for your mind and thoughts.

A year or two ago, I wrote about the connection between fashion and programming. For reasons I don’t totally understand, it’s my second most…

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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.

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…

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.

The Facebook CEO gives sage advice to a crowd of young entrepreneurs.

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…

“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...

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

Why Interview Even When You’re Happy

Real experiences on growing an audience, driving traffic, and turning your knowledge into products that sell on autopilot with practical and repeatable playbooks.

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

Here are 349 mental models explained to carry around in your head. Make better decisions with the right toolbox of mental models.

To break unhealthy patterns of thinking and acting, managers need to pay special attention to how they communicate, collaborate and get…

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You might be the Tech Lead, but you don’t decide how your team develops software — their cultural ecology does.

This childhood mental health condition includes frequent and persistent anger, irritability, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness toward authority.

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.

Over the past year, while building Pullpo, I've been highly focused on one specific area: code...

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.

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.

A guide on turning your diary into dollars.

Someone asked me this and here's my answer.

Patients responded well in times of ‘high environment demand’ because sense of urgency led to hyperfocus

How to manage time as a Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux