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I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. [Read More]

You probably need to do fewer things right now. [Read More]

Senior engineers are privileged, high-demand workers. We should use that leverage. One of your first goals should be [Read More]

A very common misconception among junior engineers is that they should be as productive as senior engineers. This sucks for everybody, but mostly the junior engineers. They think they’re failing to do the same job as senior engineers (solve business problems), while they’re supposed to be doing a different job... [Read More]

Originally published as an internal Github Gist with Ahmed Owainati Jan 2017. Later presented with some silly slides with Ian Macleod Sep 2017. [Read More]