Enabling Good Work Habits Through Reflective Goal-Setting
- Abi Noda tl;dr: Abi highlights a study on developers' productivity, revealing that reflective goal-setting leads to improvements. 84% of participants identified concrete goals through reflection, 80% saw positive behavior change, and 92% planned to maintain new habits. The key takeaway is that reflective goal-setting not only enhances awareness and productivity but also encourages lasting behavioral changes, empowering developers to gain control over their work.featured in #438
Some Tactics For Writing In Public
- Julia Evans tl;dr: Julia discusses various strategies and tactics to engage with comments and feedback on her writing, especially in the context of technical blogging. Key points include: (1) Talk about facts leads to fact-based comments and discussions. (2) Sharing personal stories encourages good discussions and helps in understanding the context and different perspectives. (3) Ask technical questions or mentioning uncertainties invites answers and makes the comments section more valuable. And more.featured in #438
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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 #436
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What Is A Senior Software Engineer At Wise And Amazon?
- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: Gergely delves into senior software engineer roles at Wise and Amazon. At Wise, senior engineers lead significant projects, contribute to feature planning, and require good communication and problem-solving skills. At Amazon, the equivalent role deals with ambiguity, leads projects, communicates technical ideas efficiently, and ensures that the team's success doesn't solely rely on them. While definitions of 'senior' vary across the two companies, clear expectations across companies include project leadership, problem-solving skills, and effective communication.featured in #436
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Before You Try To Do Something, Make Sure You Can Do Nothing
- Raymond Chen tl;dr: Raymond advises starting software projects with a 'do-nothing' component to establish a good foundation. The step-by-step approach lets developers debug and validate at each stage, making problem-solving easier. He encourages incremental complexity to keep projects manageable and on track.featured in #434