I’m coming up on 15 years of professional software engineering. I’ve worked at companies from unknown startups to large FAANG-like silicon valley companies and everywhere in between. In no particular order, sharing some things I’ve learned that others may find helpful.

One of the most common management mistakes is not providing clarity when people are wrong on important, invested efforts.

A theme in my practice is the leader who's aware or senses that a colleague is suffering and would like to offer support but is unsure how to broach the topic--and a version of this occurs in my own work....

A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what...

We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.

A well-defined Product Process increases your products time to market while providing value to users and improving product quality.

(Credit: Wired magazine. ) Time to read: 50 minutes We touched down in Las Vegas only three hours before, but we were already back in the plane and flying home to San Jose on a brisk winter day in …

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.

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Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.

Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)

We hear little about bootstrapped companies, despite bootstrapping being an effective way to get up and running. We cover five successful bootstrapped firms you’ve probably not heard of – until now

Development teams at the highest level focus on interpersonal soft skills and quality interaction just as much as technical aptitude.

The paradox of intolerance and what it means for online discourse.

The key is to understand the difference between habits, routines, and rituals, and to design a life where your daily actions allow you to play with the entire spectrum of consciousness.

Learning from Entrepreneurs, Rickshaw Drivers and Poker-PlayersThe two founders of WhatsApp applied for a job at Facebook back in 2009, but their applications were rejected. Instead they went on t…