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…

Australian actor advocates trying hard, but not too hard – if you operate at 85% capacity you’ll be more relaxed and perform better

How elite coders outperform the rest

Here Richard Holman discusses some of the most common questions, doubts and problems that have come up in his five years as a creative coach

When you hesitate to ask for what you want or need, you aren't just missing out on immediate rewards or opportunities. You're also doing a disservice...

Patrick Collison, the CEO and co-founder of Stripe, maintains a list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together titled Fast. On the page, he talks about The Eiffel Tower (739 days), Boeing 747 (930 days), JavaScript (10 days), Git (17 days), The Empie State Building (410 days), and more. Why do ambitious things sometimes come together so fast? * Right time, right place. Sometimes, groundwork from many disparate threads comes together, making the previously impossible possible.

It seems like we need to make a constant choice between our personal and professional and personal growth. But is it truly a zero-sum game?

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

Just because someone says it on the Internet doesn't mean it's true.

I've been involved in spacecraft and space systems design and development for my entire career, including teaching the senior-level capstone spacecraft design course, for ten years at MIT and now at the University of Maryland for more than three decades. These are some bits of wisdom that I have gleaned during that time, some by picking up on the experience of others, but mostly by screwing up myself. I originally wrote these up and handed them out to my senior design class, as a strong hint on how best to survive my design experience… —

When you’re hiring, try not to get caught in the trap of evaluating candidates based on their best possible performance. Look instead for consistency: reliable results in variable conditions, the ability to deliver predictably with consistent quality, and so forth.

Much has been said about the role of communication within software teams. For those who have labored through the complexities of large-scale projects, it'...

A brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.

Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently, because asynchronous communication involves less frequent, but richer communication, meaning there is less time talking about the work and more time doing it, allowing the system to optimize for throughput and flow.

Mindful context switching is a strategic approach to task management that emphasizes the importance of staying focused on a single task while maintaining an acceptable level of responsiveness.

As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.