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- 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.
- 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 Masterby 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.
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learnby Richard Hamming★★★★★A masterclass in lifelong learning, turning hard-earned wisdom into unforgettable parables.