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Facing death, these people found a clarity about how to live

I absolutely love reading. Fiction, non-fiction, poems, blogs, newspapers, magazines. Unfortunately, in today’s world, we spend less time reading and more time browsing—scrolling through Tweets, liking Instagram posts. It’s a shame, because reading offers many benefits that are backed by science. If you’re not convinced you should make it a habit, see below for some ... Read More

After making it through the initial application selection and conquering a first set of introductory interviews the interview process often moves on to some form of “technical challenges”. The goal…

Diving into the Staff Engineer Role, with Raviraj from Meta

Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes talks to NME after their secret Reading and Leeds 2018 about how trauma and divorce shaped new album 'Amo'

The political economy of bullshit.

’Tis a gift to be simple. ALA’s Zeldman bemoans our industry’s current fetish for the needlessly complicated over the straightforward. Escape the cult of the complex! Get back to improving lives, o…

The other day, I was thinking about less-obvious skills that I find helpful for working as a software engineer. Some skills are obvious, like understanding technical topics, learning new things, and thinking like a computer, but there’s a separate class of unobvious skills that an outsider may not immediately think of when they imagine a career in software.1 Empathy and communication are the main ones that come to mind.2 3

How successful people manage information

The most important part of a companies culture is trust. People don't feel trusted when you micro-manage and this has disastrous implications.

June's CEO on how to move faster and stop throwing away your roadmaps

A good apology can get you a second chance with a key customer. Learn the elements, both required and optional, in any good business apology.

Software Innovation and Business Models