Top highlight Subbu Allamaraju Jun 11 · 12 min read Leadership is a loaded word. We attribute a lot to it; we expect a lot from it; we know when we see it, and yet, we don’t have a concise way to desc

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An engineering manager shares how hiring can be complicated behind the scenes. He says: "I'm leading a team that was on auto-pilot mode for some time. I recently made a decision to hire a great candid

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From each of our two experiences starting out as introductory-level engineers at Box, to becoming first-time managers overseeing five-person teams, then directors overseeing 30-50, and ultimately VPs

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It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of big-company HR practices. I’m more of the First Break all the Rules type. Despite my general skepticism of many standard practices, we still do annual performance

Luhmann wrote over 70 books and more than 400 scholarly articles using the Zettelkasten notetaking method David B. Clear Dec 31, 2019 · 21 min read (Versión en español aquí ) (Deutsche Übersetzung hie

Managers: what do you do when your teammate shares their grief? Originally posted Oct 29, 2020 Most of us aren’t taught how to respond when someone shares with us a really heavy piece of information.

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TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product effic

Last week I had a call with some friends, one of whom is transitioning to an Engineering Manager role. He didn't know what to expect and asked for some guidance. We did our best to help, but in these

I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU

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So, you’re a product manager, and following your success in launching a new product last year, you’ve been promoted to product manager of your organization's flagship product ‘20-Year-Old-Monolith-Bea

This is the second part of ‘The problems with MVPs in legacy replacement’ article. In this part we look at why an MVP is not going to help you realize the value of your legacy replacement. Behavioral

Message Queues are now fairly prevalent—there are so many of them showing up so fast you'd think they were rabbits with an unlimited supply of celery , resulting in an kafkaesque situation where makin

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," wrote the French philosopher Blaise Pascal . It's a line repeated so frequently, in the era of smartphones and so

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It’s my pleasure today to talk to a former nurse and now software developer, Taniya Amidon who learned to code at Le Wagon coding bootcamp in London. She was craving Wondering what you can do with a sociology degree? Beatrice found an apprenticeship as a developer after spotting the position on my…

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In 1931, a 25-year-old Kurt Gödel wrote a proof that turned mathematics upside down. The implication was so astounding, and his proof so elegant that it was...kind of funny. I wanted to share his disc

Sat Oct 17, 2020 by Caspar Today at around 10:45pm CET, after a couple of glasses of red wine, we deleted the production database by accident 😨. Over 300.00 scoreboards and their associated data were

Oct 12, 20208min read by reviewed by Richard Seroter Key Takeaways For a few years now, serverless computing has been predicted by some to usher in a new age of computing that thrives without an opera