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Diving into the Staff Engineer Role, with Raviraj from Meta

Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, process, and other people. These people have opinions and they share them all over the place -- all the time. This collective chatter is part of the daily regimen of a healthy business, but this chatter will bury the indi

I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…

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The pandemic has turned lots of people on to the benefits of working remotely, creating a large pool of workers who will want remote jobs. Here’s a guide to making sure that a company’s culture supports its remote employees.

This is a common scene at the MIRI offices: I have a decision to make, like what sort of winter fundraiser to run. Before making any choices, I take a few minutes to write down all the obvious things to do before making the decision: spend five minutes brainstorming options

See: reddit discussion of this post (50 comments), Tildes discussion of this post (20 comments) Also see: cold emails (with examples) Here’s how Travis Kalanick’s inbox looked like back in 2013: Source (perma) If you wanted to reach Travis — and keep in mind that at some point during the last six years he probably hit #inbox1m — would you just send him one email and hope that it wins the lottery when he randomly reaches for something in his inbox? Probably not. Instead, what …

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In normal times, there are many reasons to go freelance, including the freedom to set your own hours, choose the type of work you want to do, and potentially earn more money. In 2020, many of us ha...

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At Super Evil Megacorp, we’ve been working toward becoming friendly to remote team members for a while now. Last year, we upgraded our goal from just being remote friendly to becoming a Remote First studio. To us, “Remote First” means being intentional about our processes, technology, operations and culture to ensure a feeling of equity, […]

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If you're a newly minted consultant, how should you position yourself? It's a tough question, but here's a hint: not the way you're used to positioning yourself as an employee.

Having a business plan can boost your chances of success! Learn the basic components of a business plan and get free templates and examples.

How do you move faster when adding folks to a project supposedly slows it down? Mailchimp’s CPO takes the reader through some considerations for preserving momentum while scaling up.

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

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

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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.

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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.

(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 …

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

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