Frustrated By Rejection? How To Plan Before You Ask
- Wes Kao tl;dr: “The truth is, it can hurt to ask. Asking when you shouldn’t is expensive: (1) Asking can use your social capital. (2) Asking can make someone question your sense of judgment. (3) Asking can be off-putting and create awkwardness. (4) Asking can put a strain on a relationship. (5) Asking can change the nature of a relationship going forward (and be hard to undo). You can ask—but don’t just “put it out there” without a strategy. Think about whether what you’re asking a specific person makes sense given your level of trust.”featured in #561
Manage Your Priorities And Energy
- Will Larson tl;dr: Will reflect on his shift from a 'company, team, self' framework to an eventual ‘quid pro quo' approach during his management tenure at Uber. His ‘quid pro quo' approach is: (1) Generally, prioritize company and team priorities over your own. (2) If you are getting de-energized, artificially prioritize some energizing work. Increase the quantity until equilibrium is restored. (3) If the long-term balance between energy and proper priorities can’t be balanced for more than a year, stop everything else and work on solving this issue e.g. change your role or quit. Will emphasizes the importance of remaining flexible and curious.featured in #560
Manage Your Priorities And Energy
- Will Larson tl;dr: Will reflect on his shift from a 'company, team, self' framework to an eventual ‘quid pro quo' approach during his management tenure at Uber. His ‘quid pro quo' approach is: (1) Generally, prioritize company and team priorities over your own. (2) If you are getting de-energized, artificially prioritize some energizing work. Increase the quantity until equilibrium is restored. (3) If the long-term balance between energy and proper priorities can’t be balanced for more than a year, stop everything else and work on solving this issue e.g. change your role or quit. Will emphasizes the importance of remaining flexible and curious.featured in #559
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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?
- Charity Majors tl;dr: Charity discusses employee retention strategies, arguing against excessive efforts to keep employees who want to leave. She emphasizes fair compensation, transparent practices, and proactive career development.featured in #558
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Ideas From "A Philosophy Of Software Design"
- Eliran Turgeman tl;dr: Eliran discusses 3 ideas that resonate with him the most from the mentioned book: (1) Zero-tolerance towards complexity. (2) Smaller components are not necessarily better for modularity. (3) Exception handling accounts for a lot of complexity.featured in #555
Ideas From "A Philosophy Of Software Design"
- Eliran Turgeman tl;dr: Eliran discusses 3 ideas that resonate with him the most from the mentioned book: (1) Zero-tolerance towards complexity. (2) Smaller components are not necessarily better for modularity. (3) Exception handling accounts for a lot of complexity.featured in #554
What I Tell People New To On-Call
- Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya tl;dr: “The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately traumatic. Since then, I've had on-call experiences at multiple other jobs and have grown to really appreciate it as part of the role. As I've progressed through my career, I've gotten to help establish on-call processes and run some related trainings. Here is some of what I wish I'd known when I started my first on-call shift, and what I try to tell each engineer before theirs.”featured in #554