Skip to Content

Posts tagged with Work

Featured

Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part II

Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part II

Part I is available here. As before, I'll bold insights and lessons I've picked up from those experiences. A Scrum in Social Networks I joined Tagged in the beginning of 2008. It billed itself as an…

Software Engineering Salaries Based on Capturing Business Value

Software Engineering Salaries Based on Capturing Business Value

I came across this fun article asking whether software engineering salaries exhibit the same bimodal pattern found in other well-paid professional occupations, e.g., doctors and lawyers: Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? Sadly, a glaring lack of data itself…

Featured

Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part I

Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part I

A couple of months back, someone asked me about my career in software development and the various lessons along the way. I have relayed individual stories in the past, but I never got around to writing it down in full.…

The Bamboo Ceiling in Tech

The Bamboo Ceiling in Tech

Bamboo ceiling refers to this phenomenon where Asians—here, defined to be a combination of South Asian (majority Indian), East Asian (majority Chinese, Korean, and Japanese), and Southeast Asian (a more diverse set of countries)—are underrepresented in the higher…

Featured

The Case for a Single 27" 4K Work Monitor

The Case for a Single 27" 4K Work Monitor

At home, I've had a 34", 21:9-screen-aspect-ratio ultra-wide monitor for about 18 months now. It's attached to a movies and gaming PC, and that expansive screen real estate works very…

Featured

A Counsyl Retrospective

A Counsyl Retrospective

It started when I was thinking about how technology has failed. Or, to be more accurate, where it has failed. Post-Square, I had approached my job hunt slightly differently than in years past. Opportunity and role were still the…