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2023 July

How to be effective in the theatre of work

News is bad for you. It leads to fear and aggression. It hinders your creativity and makes you sick. We should stop consuming it, says Rolf Dobelli, who's abstained for years

"...the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day."� Charles Dickens

Table of Contents FAQ When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas …

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If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.

When I’m being first-order productive, I’m programming: creating and interacting with a system. This first-order productivity is great, but it isn’t discoverable for others: there’s generally a high bar to entry for comprehending another person’s work when it’s expressed solely as a structured program. Second-order productivity is when I’m writing about programming, or about systems. This kind of productivity is generally more accessible and distributable, and forms most of the content of this blog!

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2023 June

How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys.

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In a world where technology is trying to make things increasingly easier, make things a little harder on yourself. You’ll get better results.

We’ve talked about How To Be A PM That Engineers Don’t Hate, now let’s talk about it in the other direction.

Too many applicants are screened out because they don’t fit a particular pattern.

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Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.

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2023 May

Or: why I don't like greenfield projects

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2022 December

Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back: • Compared to my younger versions, I f...

A practical guide to self-confidence, personal growth, teamwork, learning, communication, and delivering results—the soft skills that every programmer needs to thrive in their job and be ready for a senior role.

2022 November

Reverse Pull-Requests How We Used GitHub PRs In A Trunk-Based, Continuous Deployment Development Team by Lukasz Gryzbon & Antony Marcano In a fast-paced world, more teams have microservices …

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The step-by-step guide to building a Second Brain. Based on 10+ years of research & experiments with organizing our digital lives & improving our productivity.

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