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2 blogs • 28 notes

2026

(13)

Sep 01

NOTE Choose a Depth, Not a Duration, To Navigate Rabbit Holes

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity #depth-boxing
Jul 05

NOTE Struggling While Learning Is Proof You Are Doing It Right

Career Growth #career-growth #confusion #learning-struggle
Jul 01

NOTE Spatial Join Operations Power Location-Based Services Like Uber and DoorDash

Distributed Systems #distributed-systems #delivery-zones #geopandas
Jun 24

NOTE Leverage Curiosity or Fear to Boost Your Productivity Levels

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity #fear
Jun 21

NOTE Owning Up to Mistakes Accelerates Learning and Builds Professional Trust

Career Growth #career-growth #accountability #leadership
Jun 15

NOTE How Four Key Traits Foster Decades of Sustained Growth

Distributed Systems #career-growth #craft-obsession #curiosity
May 27

NOTE Leverage Self-Doubt to Drive Learning and Deeper Exploration

Career Growth #career-growth #confidence #growth
Apr 26

NOTE Four Strategies to Build Strong Mental Models for Better Learning

Career Growth #career-growth #connecting-knowledge #first-principles
Apr 07

NOTE Giving More Talks is the Only Way to Improve

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Feb 08

BLOG Why Half Your Skills Expire Every Few Years

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jan 28

NOTE The Wisdom of Choosing What You Can Ignore

Career Growth #career-growth #attention-management #focus
Jan 19

NOTE Toxic productivity and the need for sustainable rest

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #productivity
Jan 04

NOTE Software Knowledge Decay Requires Weekly Learning Investment

Career Growth #career-growth #half-life #knowledge-decay

2025

(7)

Sep 25

NOTE When Emotions Spill Over at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Sep 13

NOTE Career Longevity Beats Constant Job Hopping

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jun 30

NOTE Before You Push Back, Know What You're Standing On

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #productivity
Apr 14

NOTE You Don't Win by Proving Others Wrong

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Mar 21

NOTE Before you form an opinion, experience it

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #productivity
Mar 18

NOTE Why You Need Both Curiosity and Action to Thrive

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jan 29

NOTE When In Doubt, Code It Out

Software Engineering #software-engineering #devops-and-testing #productivity

2024

(9)

Aug 26

NOTE Don't Wait, Learn - The Best Resource is Mythical

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Aug 13

NOTE The Unexpected Benefit of Reading Random Engineering Articles

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #databases
Aug 12

NOTE Roadmaps Are Limiting Your Growth

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jul 15

NOTE The Importance of Being Likeable in Interviews

Leadership #career-growth #interviews #leadership
May 29

NOTE The Best Engineering Lessons Happen During Outages

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
May 27

NOTE Great Engineers Start Broad

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
May 21

NOTE LLM Summaries are Ruining Your Learning

AI Systems #career-growth #llms #productivity
May 08

NOTE Building a Blameless Culture for Team Success

Leadership #leadership #blameless-culture #experimentation
Mar 11

NOTE At Work, Find Your Own Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity

2020

(1)

Mar 10

BLOG The Intuition Behind IDF

Algorithms & Data Structures #algorithms-and-data-structures #information-retrieval #productivity