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The Surprising Power Of Documentation
- Vadim Kravcenko tl;dr: “Start small, but start today. Don't wait for a grand strategy or a perfect tool. Start by documenting your code, your decisions, and your learnings. Make it a part of your daily workflow, not an end-of-the-day chore. And as you move forward, imbibe this culture of documentation into your teams, your projects, and your organization. Create systems and processes that encourage and facilitate documentation.”featured in #423
To Build A Top Performing Team, Ask For 85% Effort
- Greg McKeown tl;dr: An outdated way of thinking about peak performance is to think that “maximum effort = maximum results.” Research shows that it doesn’t work in reality. Here’s what works: The 85% rule suggests that to reach maximum output, you need to refrain from giving maximum effort. Operating at 100% effort all of the time will result in burnout and less-optimal results. While the precise number 85% may just be a rule of thumb, it’s a helpful one for managers who want to create high-performance teams without burning people out.featured in #422
featured in #422
The Work Is Never Just “The Work”
- Dave Stewart tl;dr: Dave discusses strategies that have improved his project estimations of contract work: (1) Run postmortems on past projects to anchor yourself to reality. (2) Consider timing and logging future work to equip yourself for the future. (3) Get familiar with, and work to improve, your own estimation biases and weak spots. And more.featured in #422
HasuraCon 2023 is June 20-22 - Virtual and Free
tl;dr: HasuraCon is bringing together experts to explore the latest trends, insights, and innovations in the world of GraphQL, data architecture, and app development in this free, online 3-day event. Data APIs are reshaping the world of data delivery, helping enterprises do more by serving data where and when it’s needed in a fast, secure, flexible way. Hasura and its customers are at the forefront, driving this shift. Costco, Verizon, Atlassian, General Mills, and over 40 Fortune 100 companies use Hasura.featured in #422
featured in #421
When And How To Run Group-Targeted A/B Tests
- Lior Neu-ner tl;dr: Tests are run when one user interaction with your product impacts how others use it. “Suppose Slack wants to improve the usage of a new video calling feature. Improving the feature's discoverability for a single user will increase their own usage with it, but since they use it with their coworkers, their coworkers will also discover it.”featured in #421
How Faros AI Makes My Job Easier: A Developer Story
- Natalie Casey tl;dr: As an engineer at an early-stage startup you need to wear a lot of different hats. Some days it's about focusing on coding; on others, it could be about focusing on designing features and defining the work for contractors. Read this post to learn more about how a developer leverages Faros AI to make their job easier.featured in #421
My Approach To Building Large Technical Projects
- Mitchell Hashimoto tl;dr: “I've learned that when I break down my large tasks in chunks that result in seeing tangible forward progress, I tend to finish my work and retain my excitement throughout the project. People are all motivated and driven in different ways, so this may not work for you, but as a broad generalization I've not found an engineer who doesn't get excited by a good demo. And the goal is to always give yourself a good demo.”featured in #420