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You Only Launch Once
Whether it is a new product or a new feature, the attention you get at launch is a one time opportunity. So, what should you focus on building?
Networking for Nerds
“Networking.” What a word. When I left grad school in 2015, networking was for slick-haired salesmen, former jocks, and social parasites in general. Real heroes built better mousetraps and the world beat a path to their doors. But then I looked at what real successes actually do - they lead...
The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Rockstar Product Engineer
Guest post by Ian Vanagas - Writer at Product for Engineers
Senior Engineer to Lead: Who to promote and how to train them
Overview of the insights from the roundtable on Plato Elevate conference in San Francisco!
The Advanced Spiritual Practice of Doing Whatever You Want
I was at Nando’s, waiting for my order of chicken wings. These days, I hardly carry my phone, bringing my pocket notepad instead. A lady working there approached me and asked if I was waiting for something. I said, “Yes,” and she replied, “Oh, okay, just checking.”
William Davies · Anticipatory Anxiety: Generation Anxiety
To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...
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The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand - Reactor
It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”
taste testing cities
Against the Burden of Knowledge
Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong
The artist and the inner retreat
A call to quiet, plus this week's new releases
The Death of Work-Life Balance in Tech (And Why We Need to Revive It)
As a freelance software engineer with 25 years in the trenches of the tech industry, I’ve witnessed firsthand the slow, insidious death of…
The Grug Brained Developer
Growing from engineer to Staff engineer and thriving
Clear communication, empathy and good collaboration becomes very important!
How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams
Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent.
The Freelancer’s Guide to Time-Wasters, Cheapskates, and Nightmare Clients: A Cathartic Exposé
Alright, fellow freelancers, gather ‘round. Today, we’re diving deep into the cesspool of client interactions that make us question our…
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
In the wake of Agile’s success and the benefits it offers organizations to help them achieve faster delivery, happier customers, and more engaged teams, “Collaboration” has become…
Engineering is more about people than tech
Spoiler: I assumed that I would just code all day and that's it. Well, I was very wrong!
Make Every Software Project A Success With These Standards
A lot of software teams are struggling with the management of development projects and how to maintain their software over a longer period…
Meet Rachel Wolan, Webflow’s new CPO | Webflow Blog
Learn about our new CPO and what brought her to Webflow.
The senior engineer role
The 2016 is the 10th year I am working full time in the computer science field. Before that I had graduate school, a startup, an undergraduate degree, high school - always programming. My first progra
At 28, I Taught Myself to Be Likable. Here's How I Did It (Part 1)
My tips for pretending to seem like a fully functioning person when you have a weird brain.
How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
Freelancers: Should You Show Up as You or a Company?
What to call your design business is one of the biggest questions freelance designers face. As a designer you are running a business, whether you have an LLC that clients write checks out to or not. But you are also a person who designs, and your reputation is likely tied to your first and last name. (Unless you’re so famous people only refer to you by one of them.)
Actually try on your job applications
It can be a pain to put in more effort on job applications, but it takes you further than you think.
Cal Newport, the man who never procrastinates
This Georgetown professor, podcaster, and best-selling author of ‘Deep Work’ and ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’ has the key to meeting goals and having free time. His personal success is proof that his techniques work
How and why we built our startup around small teams
Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.