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Links

  • by Sean Goedecke

    Being endlessly useful feels virtuous and carries a cost: saying yes to everyone else's priorities is how you keep dodging the harder work that's actually your own.

  • by Addy Osmani

    After 14 years at Google, the lessons that stuck aren't about code, they're about navigating ambiguity, building trust, and the difference between being productive and being impactful.

  • by Haseeb Qureshi

    The negotiation guide most engineers are never taught: you hold more leverage than you feel, nearly everything is negotiable, and you never name the first number.

  • Searching for outliers
    by Ben Kuhn

    When the outcomes that matter are outlier-driven, optimizing the average is the wrong game; take many cheap shots and filter hard for maybe-amazing over reliably-fine.

Books

  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
    by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
    ★★★★★
    The closest thing the craft has to a journeyman's handbook. DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets - the vocabulary it gave us is still load-bearing decades later.
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
    The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
    by Richard Hamming
    ★★★★★
    A masterclass in lifelong learning, turning hard-earned wisdom into unforgettable parables.