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The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine made a discovery that helped create the COVID-19 vaccines. They couldn’t have anticipated the tremendous impact of their findings.

📈 Long-term good work 📉 short spikes of great work

Developers should share more of their knowledge with their peers. Follow this advice to overcome your anxieties and start blogging (or blog better).

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]

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What I Learned from My Recent Experiment with the Spotify Squad Model

Design Engineers at Vercel blend aesthetic sensibility with technical skills. Learn about Vercel's philosophy on what Design Engineering is and how we work.

No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all…

Focusing on this can 📈 drastically improve your work experience!

Fears of job displacement have often centered around the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to automate tasks traditionally performed by humans. While AI undoubtedly presents challenges and opportunities, there's a subtler, more immediate threat lurking in the shadows.

How is it that reboot culture is winning, despite the radical hype around the Creator Economy and continued vision for the Long Tail?

Whenever I need to hire someone new onto my team, I put myself through a miniature bootcamp. Here are the broad strokes. Know what you're looking for before you look for it. If you can't articulate what your expectations of this team member will be for the first 30, 60, 90 days, you're putting a low ceiling on the experience for all.

You could rephrase 'managing up' as how to work with important people so that they want to work with you more, not less. This is a key skill for career growth for obvious reasons.

Over the years, I have trained and coached hundreds of C-level leaders on their effectiveness. I’ve been surprised by how much time is wasted in boardrooms debating the details of certain decisions…

Hey there, Jordan here 👋. You’re probably familiar with most of my articles being a “how-to” guide. Those guides come from my real-world experience and lessons I learned—usually from mistakes I made. This article is going to cover the 5 biggest lessons

Wouldn’t it be nice to always be able to pick up the phone to ask for a job referral when you need one, no questions asked? Or to ask for an intro to someone? Or for support or advice on an idea?

Four questions to ask your organization.

Imposter syndrome plagues many software engineers and when I first started my career, I was no exception. I had just finished a computer science degree that was mostly based on theory and I had virtually no confidence in my abilities to develop software. Over the years I’ve managed to fully put my imposter syndrome to bed and you can too by following these three specific steps:

How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff

When in doubt, maintainers should remember that they’re not in it alone. They have a community to help them make the right call. Read more about decision-making in open source:

A simple guide for Engineers and Leaders on how to leverage LinkedIn for Career Growth

Here are some projects I’d like to see funded, some through my own ventures, or others through alternative mechanisms. On these issues, the right person could have an enormous impact, whether through the research side or directly coming up with actionable ideas, including of course creating and building companies. More studies of super-effective people. Either […]

Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more

When working on Airbnb’s infra team, I struggled to grow from an L4 engineer to a senior/L5 eng. I came early, stayed late, and said yes to working on anything that needed help - I was as eager as a new grad could be.

Guest post by Addy Osmani, Head of Chrome at Google

Mentoring helps you grow, helps you grow others, and helps you level up. It’s a win-win-win. But, many people don’t know where or how to get started. This article will cover everything you need to know about finding someone to mentor and setting them up for success from start to finish.

My personal top 10, with drawings and a ton of resources.