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2026

(26)

Aug 13

NOTE Visual Prototypes Offer Superior Product Specification Over Design Documents

Career Growth #software-engineering #ai-agents #career-growth
Aug 06

BLOG What AI First Engineering Orgs Look Like

AI Systems #ai-systems #ai-agents #code-review
Aug 05

NOTE Effective Leadership Is About Outcomes Not Simply Interpersonal Skills

Leadership #leadership #decision-making #interpersonal-skills
Jul 31

BLOG Three Claude Skills I Think Every Org Should Have

AI Systems #ai-systems #databases #leadership
Jul 28

NOTE Systematically Evaluate Design Alternatives and Prune Suboptimal Trade-offs

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #delivery-timelines #design-alternatives
Jul 24

NOTE Modern SaaS Value Shifts From Core Features To Essential Plumbing

Software Engineering #software-engineering #artificial-intelligence #integrations
Jul 20

NOTE AI-Driven Development Shifts Constraints to Judgment and Saying No

AI Systems #leadership #ai-development #clock-synchronization
Jul 16

NOTE Companies Hire Senior Engineers to Re-Solve Familiar Problems Efficiently

Career Growth #career-growth #career-impact #leadership
Jul 15

NOTE Tech leadership involves mediating excessive product requests and engineering builds

Leadership #leadership #engineering #excessive-demands
Jul 15

NOTE Fragile staging and end-to-end tests hinder system scalability

Software Engineering #software-engineering #contract-testing #databases
Jul 03

NOTE Startup Hiring Pitch of Unlimited Autonomy Is Usually a Lie

Leadership #career-growth #focus #leadership
Jun 21

NOTE Owning Up to Mistakes Accelerates Learning and Builds Professional Trust

Career Growth #career-growth #accountability #leadership
Jun 19

NOTE Higher Compensation Limits Job Options But Demonstrable Impact Creates Opportunities

Career Growth #career-growth #career-choices #higher-compensation
Jun 18

NOTE Design Document Gaps Foster Engineer Decision-Making and Issue Discovery

Leadership #leadership #design-docs #engineer-empowerment
Jun 10

NOTE System Design, Not Prompting, Optimizes LLM Token Budget Performance

AI Systems #ai-systems #leadership #llm-context-windows
May 30

NOTE Production AI agents face classic software engineering reliability issues

AI Systems #ai-systems #ai-agents #concurrency
May 28

BLOG Embedding Models Make Or Break Your Ai App

AI Systems #ai-systems #embeddings #information-retrieval
Apr 20

NOTE Match Existing Codebase Conventions for Easier Collaboration

Software Engineering #software-engineering #codebase-conventions #coding-style
Apr 16

NOTE Asking the right question is more important now

Leadership #leadership #ai #critical-thinking
Apr 07

NOTE Giving More Talks is the Only Way to Improve

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Apr 05

NOTE Simpler Solutions Beat Complexity in System Architecture

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #caching #complexity
Mar 25

NOTE Influence Is How Good Ideas Survive in Organizations

Leadership #leadership #alignment #communication
Mar 12

NOTE The Value of Spiky Teams in the Tech Industry

Career Growth #career-growth #candidate-assessment #databases
Mar 03

NOTE Software Engineering Becomes Project Management Without Innovation

Career Growth #career-growth #bureaucracy #innovation
Feb 09

NOTE Venting Can Hurt Your Reputation at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #reputation
Jan 30

NOTE Weak Leadership Revealed By "I" Instead of "We

Leadership #leadership #communication #ownership

2025

(26)

Dec 18

NOTE Leadership across companies expects AI to magically cut time-to-ship in half.

Leadership #leadership
Nov 27

NOTE Be more prepared for your 1:1s than your manager.

Leadership #leadership
Sep 25

NOTE When Emotions Spill Over at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Sep 22

NOTE Meetings With No Agenda Are a Waste of Time

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Sep 21

NOTE High Probability of Bad Outcome Doesn't Equal Bad Decision

Leadership #leadership #decision-making #risk
Sep 18

NOTE Growth Isn't About Doing Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #system-design
Aug 23

NOTE Most people fall into a hollow productivity trap and think they are actually productive.

Career Growth #leadership
Aug 11

NOTE How can you not know this?

Career Growth #leadership
Jul 14

NOTE Why You Should Always Have Back-Burner Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Jun 23

NOTE Be the One They Can Count On

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #fault-tolerance
Jun 16

NOTE How Much Are People Willing to Bet on You

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 15

NOTE Collaboration Is Better Than Competition in Many Cases

Leadership #leadership #collaboration #communication
Jun 10

NOTE How to Get Leadership to Say Yes to Your Project

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 02

NOTE Don't Let Your Best Ideas Die in Silence

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
May 26

NOTE Availability Bias Leads to Optimizing Visible Not Actual Problems

Leadership #leadership #availability-bias #communication
May 16

NOTE You Won't Be Promoted Unless You Ask

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
May 12

NOTE It's Not Enough to be Right; Learn to be Heard

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Apr 14

NOTE You Don't Win by Proving Others Wrong

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Apr 10

NOTE Setting Up Engineering Teams for Quantifiable Impact

Career Growth #leadership #career-development #engineering-leadership
Apr 09

NOTE Appreciate Generously; It Costs Nothing, But Builds Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Mar 05

NOTE Don't just bring problems to your manager; bring solutions.

Leadership #leadership
Mar 04

NOTE Don't Wait. Step Up.

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Feb 18

NOTE Why Interviews Are Biased And What Sets You Apart

Career Growth #career-growth #fault-tolerance #interviews
Jan 07

NOTE Lead Projects That Land, Execution Over Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Jan 02

NOTE When working on a new project, we engineers almost always start with the most fascinating part.

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Jan 01

BLOG Theta sketches: set algebra over massive streams

Algorithms & Data Structures #algorithms-and-data-structures #databases #hashing

2024

(23)

2023

(7)

Dec 12

NOTE Good engineering managers hire well to free up time

Leadership #leadership #engineering-managers #hiring
Nov 16

BLOG How to Remain Unblocked

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Nov 08

NOTE Building a career in software engineering is not just about coding ⚡

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Sep 13

NOTE Do not shy away if you get boring projects at work ⚡

Leadership #leadership
Aug 09

NOTE Three Key Attributes for Hiring Engineers and Leaders

Leadership #leadership #bias-for-action #curiosity
May 22

NOTE Ambitious versus achievable goals, learn both traits

Leadership #leadership #goal-setting #managerial-styles
May 04

NOTE Engineering Leaders Focus on High-Impact Projects

Leadership #leadership #engineering-leadership #hiring

2020

(2)

Nov 29

BLOG The 2Q Algorithm - Addressing LRU's Sub-Optimality

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #caching #databases
Feb 28

BLOG Habits that Make a Great Programmer

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership

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