No longer having the tangible, code-based evidence of a hard day's work when you transition into management can be the hardest part of the role change, but there are ways to harness meta productivity and regain job satisfaction. Every so often, I have a day where I look up after the last meeting has…

In World War II, the story goes, the British invented a new kind of onboard radar that allowed its pilots to shoot down German planes at night. [1] They didn't want the Germans to know about this tech

In college I first heard Jason Fried from Basecamp talk about how making money is a skill—like playing the drums or piano—that you can get better at over time. That resonated with me immediately. I wo

Note: this is an article for staffeng.com , written for an audience of folks on cusp of reaching a Staff Engineer role. There are only a few magic spells to attain a Staff-plus role: negotiate for the

👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering, big tech/startups and career growth. Thank you for your continued readership, we welcomed almost 2000 new subs last

EXPEDIA GROUP TECHNOLOGY — ENGINEERING A framework for giving feedback to others’ code Published inExpedia Group Technology · 8 min read· Jul 25, 2023 -- Photo by davide ragusa on Unsplash Feedback is

I've often heard both new and experienced managers expressing concerns about how to run 1to1s with their direct reports and other collaborators. They sometimes feel trapped in a narrow interpretation

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack. Years later he was asked what went through his mind while he was being rushed to the hospital in what could have been his las

In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages. We shared our journey of how we started out using MongoDB but migrated our data to Cassandra because we were looking for a database

A principal engineer usually means one of the most experienced individual contributors in the organisation. It’s an ultimate step in the engineer career ladder that gives great recognition for folks i

I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. Thi

My name is Julien Nahum (@jhumanj on Twitter). I’m the founder of NotionForms, a form builder for Notion, a productivity tool. I have been bootstrapping this SaaS solo for the past year. It very recen

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6 April 2020 Christian JarrettFeatures correspondent Alamy Your parents’ good intentions might have undermined your confidence – but you can do something about it. You’ve probably noticed how some of

Obviously, pregnancy for partners won’t be the same as it will be for moms-to-be, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a joint venture. You may not be experiencing morning-noon-and-night sickness, but yo

I’ve been losing on the internet for 10+ years. It feels good to finally be succeeding. In high school, I started a YouTube channel with friends. We racked up a few thousand views, but gave it up when

HomeBlogHow and why I built Japan Dev Updated September 5, 2023 Eric Turner Founder of Japan Dev Career DevelopmentJapan LifePopular Eric Turner Founder of Japan Dev Latest Tech Jobs 🇯🇵 Senior Front-e

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Children introduce unique challenges to travel planning, but luckily Japan is a destination that is easy and safe to explore with kids. The following are some things to consider that can make your fam

Good morning! This week I’m answering three reader prompts, collected from a few weeks ago, that each hit on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. The first, on chores, prompted today’s ess

Table of Contents Please see the “condensed time line” section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right a

Some years ago, I was explaining to my manager that I was feeling a bit bored, and theytold me to learn how to read a Profit & Loss (P&L) statement .At the time, that sounded suspiciously like, “Stop

No matter how hard you work, it still takes a little bit of luck for something to hit. That can be discouraging, since luck feels like a force outside our control. But the good news is that we can inc

I n the very first instalment of my column for the Guardian’s Weekend magazine, a dizzying number of years ago now, I wrote that it would continue until I had discovered the secret of human happiness,

Art for The Intrinsic Perspective is created by Alexander Naughton There’s a dreaded term: the “writer’s writer.” Someone often beloved by authors but seldom read by the public. A common example is Wi

Art for The Intrinsic Perspective is by Alexander Naughton At the age of 24, and worried about being driven out of graduate school due to a contentious relationship with my PhD advisor over our resear

The Pit, the Cabin, and the Dance Floor Okay, Jamie, you’re in the pit again. It’s far from your first stay here, but let’s not get too comfortable. There’s a distinct lack of roses here to stop and s

Imagine… Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A smoul

When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for. I can quickly train a person

Not too long ago, Daniel Pink , the bestselling social psychology author, made an observation that seemed to speak to our national mindset: There are more than 50 books in the U.S. Library of Congress