How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)
Everything you wish you could ask your manager: Main takeaways
Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently
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.
It’s time to end damaging website design practices that may harm your users
Mindful context switching
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.
A few words on taking notes
As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.
Cultivating a Culture of Excellence
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?
Can we prove creativity is effective?
All creatives are searching for a way to demonstrate that their work has a concrete business value. But does such a measurement really exist?
Opinion | Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
No one's offering men a model except the right. It's time for a new plan.
Contrarian Libertarian
Carl Malamud, defender of civil liberties, wants more – not less government on the Internet. While many Internet pioneers have turned their attention toward getting rich, Carl Malamud has remained focused on the public interest. A passionate proponent of the public's right to access government documents, the pugnacious Malamud goaded the Securities and Exchange Commission […]
White men as victims: America's most dangerous fantasy
The Tao of Programming
Damit das Tao of Programming nicht verlorengeht, wenn das Original mal verschwindet...
Manage your priorities and energy.
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making tool, and at the time I felt it almost always led to the correct decision. It also helped me articulate why I disagreed with some of my peers’ decisions, which violated this hierarchy by placing individual or team preferences over the company’s priorities.
Stopping at 90%
A common pattern is to stop short of the real finish line for your project. A little evangelism, documentation, and polish can go a long way.
A Guide for Onboarding into a New Role
Six simple lessons to help you get started
Make the First 90 Days Count
A Simple 30-60-90 Day Plan
From Listening Tour to State of the Union
Lessons in onboarding to a new job
Getting to Yes: Achieving Alignment
Getting on the same page with your team
The End of the Beginning: A Look Ahead From Here
Maintaining momentum after the first 90 days
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Taking on a New Role
Be aware of your surroundings in new situations to avoid traps
Every "chronically online" conversation is the same
The false promise of the 10,000 hour rule
Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible
"Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible, and spend the majority of your time, and resources, building something your customers are willing...
How (Not) to Look at AI Art
How Social Media Erases Context
Word of Mouth Marketing: The Untapped Strategy That Never Fails
What is word of mouth marketing and does it work? We’ll show you how to influence people to talk about your business without wasting money.
Team, project, and file organization
Recommended structures and workflows to make your team more efficient
A guide to becoming a senior product designer
Learn how career ladders work and how to use a career plan to climb the ladder
Type 1 and Type 2 Decisions (Bezos) - Explained
What are Type Two and Type One Decision? These are two categories of decisions identified by Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, Inc. In Bezos' own word