Posts tagged with Work
How to Find a Good Manager
Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work who was about to leave the company, and they were asking me for any tips to take with them to their new job. In my head, the cliche that “people leave…
Review: Fearless Salary Negotiation
America loves itself some self-help and self-improvement. Whether it comes in the form of endless LinkedIn Pulse posts, self-help (and self-promoting) articles on Medium, or the vast industry of self-help books, we are all suckers — myself included — for trying to…
The Greener Grass on the Management Side
In modern tech companies, there’s a dual career ladder structure for software engineers: they can either progress more technologically (as senior and lead engineers) or advance on the management side (as engineering managers and directors). The best companies ensure…
Effective Communication Requires Traffic Engineering
Solving communication with clever tooling is akin to buying into a get-rich-quick scheme. I’d like to think most of us recognize that good communication in itself is hard , but I do think a lot of us want to believe…
The Cafe Workspace
Our team just had an offsite brainstorming meeting at the Workshop Cafe in the heart of the financial district in San Francisco. It is this neat little coffee shop attached to a spacious co-working space, with a mobile website that…
The Majesty of an Ultra-Wide Monitor
Recently, I decided to build a new gaming PC. The one that I have is a few years old, but I’ve kept its innards up-to-date with periodic, minor hardware upgrades. Modularity has been cool for a long time in…
