“We only want to hire the best engineers” I hear this from almost every client I speak to. So does every other recruiter. Seriously - just say those eight words to any room full of recruiting people, and everyone will give a wry chuckle and roll their eyes. We've all heard it a million times. “We…

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…

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Setting expectations for software engineers is tricky for all managers. Every company has different needs and a different structure, tech stack, and culture. Whenever someone joins a team, one of the

What do the calendars of entrepreneurs, VIPs, and famous business people look like? When I met Taylor Pearson, we nerded out over scheduling. We’d compare notes, ideas, and theories on how to optimize

This is my claim: we, as a civilization, forgot how to center things. I mean, we know how to do it. It has never been simpler: (don’t ask why you need to remember four words instead of just horizontal

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Software projects are tough. They have a habit of teaching hard lessons. Move too fast, without solid foundations and care, and the results can be messy. Move too slowly, without urgency, ruthless pri

Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, processes, and other people. These people have opinions, and they share them all over the place — all the time. This colle

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a planning meeting, assigning estimates to tickets, and either found yourself multitasking, falling asleep, texting a friend, or otherwise being entirely unengag

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“Productivity is all about efficiency and planning.” – Mahdi Yusuf, Iterate 2018 Like most developers, I love getting shit done. My best days are when I feel like I’ve been massively productive. When

Someone recently asked me if I had advice for early-career programmers. At first I thought this was a silly question. I only entered the workforce ten years ago; many of my newsletter subscribers have

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I've always found distributed systems to be the most fascinating branch ofcomputer science. I think the reason is that distributed systems are subject tothe rules of the physical world just like we ar

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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

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