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Don’t Trust Your Gut
Don’t Trust Your Gut
Intuition plays an important role in decision making, but it can be dangerously unreliable in complicated situations. A new set of analytical tools can help you leverage your instinct without being sabotaged by its weaknesses.
·hbr.org·
Don’t Trust Your Gut
Dealing with burnout when working from home | Mind
Dealing with burnout when working from home | Mind
Burnout can impact our mental health, make us feel more stressed, and drain our energy. Read more about coping with burnout, and how it can affect us.
·mind.org.uk·
Dealing with burnout when working from home | Mind
A few words on taking notes
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.
·allthingsdistributed.com·
A few words on taking notes
Personal or professional growth
Personal or professional growth
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?
·nesslabs.com·
Personal or professional growth
Collating widely available time/money trades - LessWrong
Collating widely available time/money trades - LessWrong
In the xkcd comic Working, a man is seen filling up his gas tank. "Why are you going here", says the observer, "Gas is ten cents a gallon cheaper at the station five minutes that way". He responds "B…
·lesswrong.com·
Collating widely available time/money trades - LessWrong
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
Shopify’s director of production engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things
·every.to·
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder
Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder
During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.
·nymag.com·
Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder
15 principles for managing up
15 principles for managing up
When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to help your manager get what they need, so you get what you want.
·newsletter.weskao.com·
15 principles for managing up
6 skills required to be a senior software engineer
6 skills required to be a senior software engineer
I’ve seen so many senior engineers struggle with these skills during technical interviews related to system design, whiteboarding and practical coding. Master these to standout!
·levelupsoftwareengineering.substack.com·
6 skills required to be a senior software engineer
Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity
Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity
A quote from NVIDIA’s Huang in a recent interview: You want to position yourself near opportunities. You don’t have to be that perfect. You want to position yourself near the tree. Even if you don’t catch the apple before it hits the ground, so long as you’re the first one to pick it up. You want to position yourself close to the opportunities. That’s kind of a lot of my work, is positioning the company near opportunities, and the company having the skills to monetize each one of the steps alo
·matt-rickard.com·
Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity
Private Estimates, Public Progress
Private Estimates, Public Progress
I remember back when being on one of those gigantic, long-lived software projects when I was a wee programmer. Professional project managers had laid out the entire thing before we started coding. Enlightened professional project managers—they only assumed 4.2 hours of coding per programmer per day.
·tidyfirst.substack.com·
Private Estimates, Public Progress
Containers of Aliveness
Containers of Aliveness
Instead of niching yourself into a prison, find the questions that bring you alive, and live them.
·ungatedcreative.com·
Containers of Aliveness