Bookmarks tagged “career”
165 bookmarks tagged “career”
Why Time Management Won't Solve Your Time Problems
Having more time is like earning more money — the more you have, the more you want to spend. Here's a different way to think about it...
Improve Your Focus and Find Your Calling by Working in Seasons - Ambition &
The rest of your life is a long time – start working in seasons instead.
If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charit
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…
If software architects' soft skills fail, so does the business
Mark Richards and Neal Ford, authors of 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture,' share real-life examples of why architects must communicate well, and explain how to do it.
How can you find time to design?. 7 tips to own your time | by José Torre |
For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re lucky, they…
Proving Your Value at Work — Why It’s So Hard and How to Do it Anyway
Actionable steps for making sure "out of sight" doesn't mean "out of mind"
5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day
The reality of working from home is rarely as rosy as it seems
Building domain knowledge | Janella’s blog
I started a new engineering role two weeks ago, after ten years at my previous company.
What software teams can learn from music masterclasses - Helen Hou-Sandí
I come from a musical background, with degrees in piano performance and piano accompanying and chamber music, and I think a lot about how that’s shaped who I’ve become in web and software development. I’ve even gotten to give a talk relating musicianship skills to programming and
Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy | StaffEng
This story was recorded in August, 2020. Learn more about Katie on her website, Linkedin, and Twitter. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I work at Etsy, which is the world’s leading on
Research-backed actions to help communicate more effectively
University of Oregon professors offer science-backed strategies to converse and connect with coworkers, clients, and family in a virtual environment.
Staff-plus interview processes.
When we talk about designing a Staff-plus engineer interview loop, the first thing to talk about is that absolutely no one is confident their Staff-plus interview loop works well. Many loops end up looking for a senior engineer who’s really fast at solving problems, which doesn’t
How working apart brought our team together - Humans of Xero - Medium
Historically, I haven’t been the biggest advocate of remote working. Sure, my team worked from home occasionally, but I always believed that in-person collaboration was vital for development teams. I…
How I Learned to Have Uncomfortable Conversations | Human Parts
I had 50 painfully uncomfortable conversations with strangers in New York City to practice being assertive under pressure. Here’s what I learned.
The Culture Map: A Systematic & Intentional Tool For Designing Great Compan
If I asked you: what’s the one thing you’ll do differently tomorrow to make your organization a better place to work, where would you start? How would you design, communicate and implement
Web Developer Roadmap in 2019 – Yogeswaran
Introduction to Web Development Front-end Development Roadmap Back-end Development Roadmap DevOps Roadmap
Product engineers - Sherif Mansour - Medium
We had just finished a customer conference and on a long, 14-felt-like-18 hour flight from San Francisco back to Sydney. I was sitting next to Jean-Michel Lemieux (“JML” ), our head of Engineering at…
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Strategies to foster equity and inclusion
7 Things I Learnt from 10 Conversations About Recognition
If you aren’t familiar with Officevibe check them out, but essentially it’s a tool that uses an ongoing survey with a randomised set of questions. Results are then grouped into 10 metrics…
Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - The Glowforg
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit
They’re some of the most expensive mistakes you can make.