Advice

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.” 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...

Guest post by Ian Vanagas - Writer at Product for Engineers

Overview of the insights from the roundtable on Plato Elevate conference in San Francisco!

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.”

It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong

A call to quiet, plus this week's new releases

Clear communication, empathy and good collaboration becomes very important!

Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent.

Alright, fellow freelancers, gather ‘round. Today, we’re diving deep into the cesspool of client interactions that make us question our…

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…

Spoiler: I assumed that I would just code all day and that's it. Well, I was very wrong!

A lot of software teams are struggling with the management of development projects and how to maintain their software over a longer period…

Learn about our new CPO and what brought her to Webflow.

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

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.)

It can be a pain to put in more effort on job applications, but it takes you further than you think.

Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.

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.

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