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What do Honeywell, IBM, and Pfizer have in common? Employees with strong professional networks. A study of 2 billion employee relationships on LinkedIn probes the power of such connections—and potential benefits for companies. Research by Frank Nagle.

Why product-market fit requires founder-market fit

Key challenges and opportunities for marketing leaders

The best analogy I’ve heard for startups is that they’re like looking for gold. Not because of the adventure, or the camaraderie, or the riches awaiting you on the other end. But because a gold-seeking expedition has two very different phases: first, you look for gold; then, you

Growing and mentoring junior engineers is a high leverage activity for Technical leaders. Some engineers think that this is the sole responsibility of your

A critical look at the problems I've faced with procrastination, analysis paralysis, and side projects as a developer who loves building

Teaching is the best way to learn. If you can't explain something simply, then you don't understand it.

The popular model Software product companies aren’t usually started by people with a strong background in building software products. Those who most likely end up founding businesses are good at getting funding, and at understanding their target industry.

Having been working as a software developer for over a decade, I’ve heard many misconceptions about estimations over the years. Sometimes…

Take the best of being a designer and create a durable playbook for handling challenges as a manager

What’s next for you as an individual design contributor? Are you aspiring to be a design lead? Or perhaps you’re simply interested in…

Based on data from over 30,000 developer resumes analyzed by CV Compiler, here are ways to upgrade that should lead to getting more job interviews.

How to make your tech resume attractive to employers and recruiters if you don't have a lot of professional experience? Strengthening experience descriptions is one of the ways you can achieve this goal. Along with the team at CV Compiler, an ML-powered app for resume improvement, we've run through dozens of junior developer resumes to […]

Watching Novak Djokovic play tennis is a pure delight, but I love listening to him talk about tennis even more. He’s the GOAT – a perfectly tuned machine with a deeply intrinsic sophist…

And shouldn’t that be the case for starting anything?

The Builders' Library gathers the expertise of Amazon's most experience builders in one place. One article that really got me thinking was Colm MacCárthaigh's "Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee" which is about an anti-fragility pattern that he developed for building simple, more robust, and cost-effective systems.

An addendum to a personal API

Last weekend I had a chance to talk with some students who just got their degree. They are pursuing their first software engineer job. In conversation with them, I learned that they have a pretty wrong perception of this job. This is because the reality for these new kids is so skewed.

The OpenAI drama has left a hole in the company’s upper echelons. Its remaining leaders now face a daunting task that every founder must reckon with: recruiting exceptional senior talent.

It used to be that the best city for techies was clearly the Bay Area. Now, I think the best city is a bit further north.

You start a new project. The pitch outlines the problem and boundaries of the solution. There's an appetite, like three weeks, that captures how much time it's worth investing. It's time to jump in. You add some to-dos. Have a kickoff call. Mock up a few approaches, throw together a dead simple UI, or spike a potential data model. All ...

Product teams benefit from knowing their users’ needs and how they respond to product updates as they build out the roadmap of a product. This article covers Voice of Customer programs and is aimed at those who work on a product team as well as executives who are looking for how to better inform your products using insight from users.

How should we value our work in a fair exchange?

If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.

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