Posts tagged with Learning
Scaling with Your Team
I still remember the exchange. It was about 18 months into my tenure at Square—so about 5–6 years ago at time of this writing in 2018—and I've had the good fortune of working with a…
Skills for Aspiring Engineering Directors
Prevailing wisdom suggests that within the ranks of management, despite their proximity on most career ladders, the roles of a manager and a director are meaningfully different. Just as it's difficult to appreciate the responsibilities of line management…
To Practice Management
My weekly routine lets me talk to a pretty wide range of engineers at different points in their careers. Between candidate interviews and mentoring, I chat with everyone from new grads to more seasoned and experienced senior engineers to tech…
The Importance of Spacing Out
My commute is about 45 minutes from home to the office each way. To pass the time, I usually queue up a number of weekly podcasts to complement an iOS or Nintendo Switch gaming session. That set of podcasts were…
The Role of a CS Education
This tweet came across my Twitter timeline over the weekend: Stuff CS departments should teach, but don't do very well: * Source control, esp. git * How to do effective code review * How to read API documentation * Publishing your own…
The Quantitative Value of Advice
When I started this blog some 7 years ago, one of my eventual goals was to parry my newfound online fame[1] eventually into a consultancy. At the time, my biggest achievement was getting hired by Google, and so that…
