Gergely Orosz
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15 October
- NewsletterThe Pulse: OpenAI software engineer accused of spying
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Among tech companies that have built their own coding agent harness that runs in their cloud, I expect many to build internal vibe-coding tools for non-engineers like Stripe and Ramp have done.
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AI is making everyone build much fasterTheir words
AI is making everyone (small teams or big) build much faster…
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It's now starting to happen, everywhere: build systems, CI, source control, code review: all under stress.
14 October
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- NewsletterUber’s AI infra, from the inside
13 October
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Meanwhile so many people less “AI-pilled” just have AI take over their writing. They DO stop thinking and it shows
12 October
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Bending Spoons' business model is to run products with very very small teams vs before.Their words
Their business model is to run products with very very small teams vs before.
11 October
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 3 beliefs · x.com
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It was created because it’s easy to scale to thousands of relatively untrained interviewers with hundreds of questions where it doesn’t matter if some leak
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If anything it adds mobility because every major startup + Big Tech does it do learn once and for all~10 years you benefitted
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Google will keep asking it in in-person settings / on sites for sure
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AI-style coding interviews are good and increasingly necessary, but harder to scale than DSA interviews.Their words
The AI-style interview fwiw is good and increasingly necessary just not as easy to “scale it” like DSA.
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DSA was always meant to be a filter for a mix of college education + willingness to learn something pointless
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Musk's companies treat engineers poorlyTheir words
why anyone with options to join Ant or OpenAI or GDM would join SpaceX given how poorly Musk companies treat engineers
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Google is the last company to remove DSA interviews.Their words
The last company to remove DSA interviews (aka Leetcode) is Google
10 October
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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Databricks' very thorough reference checks work, judging by how well it is doing as a business.Their words
And it works: look at how well they are doing as a business!
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Databricks regularly passes on people who ace the interview when their references are not a slam dunk.Their words
AFAIK they regularly pass on ppl acing the interview but where references (ppl they worked with) are not a slam dunk convincing
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But in 9/10 cases unless said person is not a cofounder or founding eng, they won’t get the trust to do the risky + sometimes controversial stuff that is required to execute quickly and well to win vs competition
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Trial periods could get longer as interview signal gets weaker for on-the-job performance.Their words
Trial periods could get longer as interview signal gets weaker for on-the-job performance
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Reference checks becoming baseline and good references needed
9 October
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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b) more startups filter for “AI positivity” as a whole
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Warm referrals have, by what he hears, become more important in tech hiring; it is how AI labs hire a lot.Their words
a) referrals became more important tho. Warm ones; “worked with this person and they’re gold” type of ones. It’s how eg AI labs hire a lot
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People who do not want to use AI will not be hired at 99.9% of startups, Big Tech, and ambitious companies.Their words
Whoever doesn’t want to use AI, no problem: but you won’t be hired at 99.9% of startups+Big Tech+ambitious companies, even today
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Modern software engineering is no longer done without LLMs and will no longer be done without them.Their words
Like it or not, modern sw engineering is no longer done without LLMs (AI) and will no longer be done without.
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Hallucination is a feature not a bug; generating the next token and the next also.
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even “artificial intelligence” was a stretch given LLMs are probability distributions and do not meet our common understanding of “intelligence.”
8 October
From one piece The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response 2 beliefs · blog.pragmaticengineer.com
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AI agents might be making lots of work more efficient, but following up on action items seems to move at the same snail pace at Google, as it did pre-AI!
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Google's incident management for Firebase was poor and inconsistent with its usual standards.Their words
Firebase – built by Google – has had a nasty outage this week with shockingly poor incident management at odds with how Google itself usually deals with high-severity incidents.
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Holding crypto involves significant risks such as mathematical breakthroughs, theft, or physical coercion.Their words
You can either hold crypto and keep being stressed out if a math breakthrough would drain your wallet; or someone stealing your keys would drain your wallet; or someone kidnapping you and forcing you to hand over your keys would drain your wallet
7 October
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- NewsletterBuilding resilient systems with Sam Newman
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If a company ignores how the industry changes, their business could suffer.
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one more reason AI agents will increasingly run on the cloud, not locally
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Sadly you cannot trust anon blue check accounts on this site anymore
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Building Resilient Distributed SystemsTheir words
45:22 Building Resilient Distributed Systems (Sam’s new book)
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turbopufferTheir words
@turbopuffer - – vector and full-text search built on object storage: fast, 10x cheaper, and extremely scalable.
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EntireHQTheir words
@EntireHQ - Git hosting, rebuilt for the agentic era. Entire hosts your code in-region, and is up to 89x faster than any other competitor.
6 October
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- NewsletterThe state of the tech industry in 2026
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GitHub sees more AI-generated PRs per month than human-written ones already.
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LinkedIn is becoming over 90% AI posts.Their words
LinkedIn is becoming 90%+ AI posts: not just the comments but so many posts summarizing a well-written article using AI
5 October
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Not everything that is useful and practical for users has to be AI!
4 October
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The cost of introducing and paying off tech debt has changed very, very much and I don't even know most of us have the time and space to think about what it means
3 October
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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And X is back as the place where stuff happens & gets done!
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Pattern matching is not consciousnessTheir words
If pattern matching would be consciousness theme every regex would be conscious
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Machines are not consciousTheir words
An LLM is as conscious as my screwdriver, lawn mower or smartphone is - all tools we build to do X or Y.
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For startups starting from scratch, they need to eventually rebuild all those systems: from eg ones for automated testing, manual testing, FF, canary rollouts, o11y, experimentation, migrations etc etc
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Some of the most “AI-native” mid-sized and above companies I observe are the same ones that have had dedicated infra platform and dev platform teams, “pre-AI.”
2 October
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This one called Space Mushrooms (I’m not kidding) and they seem like a legit company doing rhe stuff Bending Spoons did ~10 years ago, also from Milan!
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X is having a real problem blocking LLM bot accountsTheir words
LLM bots are talking in my replies, this site is having a real problem blocking these accounts.
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Kind of wild how quickly discovery of these small businesses went from Google to AI agents and AIO (AI optimization, similar to SEO but ofc for AI) starts mattering very much for them...
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Unironically one reason startups in the 2010s would start using "hip" technologies + blog about them (eg Clijure, Go, React etc when these were 'new' and still rare) was to hire much easier, especially solid devs who were not allowed to introduce new tech at their current co!!
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It's getting harder to determine if a trending video or post about a startup launch is real or fabricatedTheir words
Getting harder to tell if a trending video / post about a startup launch is real or made up; if funding happened or not.
1 October
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Ironic how it will now also be thanks to AI video being too high quality!
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Railway, Render, and Fly.io surely have less red tape than cloud providers such as AWS.Their words
Railway, Render, Fly io all examples of ones surely not as much red tape as eg AWS
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RIP all-remote video interview hiring processes, hello onsite rounds
30 September
- Bluesky
- NewsletterDistributed databases with Peter Mattis
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OpenAI and Anthropic have very different strategies.Their words
On this OpenAI demo day it became very clear how OpenAI vs Anthropic’s strategy is very different: OpenAI: spend $$$/month/dev with us. Choose to spend it on our models or 3rd parties, our tools or a long list of standout AI vendors. Your choice! Anthropic: spend $$$/month/dev with us; use our models and our tools. Forget using them w third parties.
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A massive interest in automated testing and verification is following the recent 10x speedup in building software.Their words
Today, building software sped up 10x, easily: and a similar massive interest in automated testing + verification is following...
29 September
- YouTube
- NewsletterWhy has Shopify dropped React Native?
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OpenAI feels to be pulling ahead of AnthropicTheir words
It's moves like this OpenAI feels to be pulling ahead of Anthropic.
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The assumption that Google has a quality release process - aka automated tests, world-class monitoring & alerting, and a standout incident management process - is no longer true for Firebase
28 September
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CJ Desai's departure is bad news for MongoDBTheir words
By leaving, he gave up most of the equity…. V bad news for MongoDB
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The new generation will probably never know I am wondering when most places (not Google) will drop Leetcode
27 September
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GPU glossaryTheir words
Very much enjoying this “GPU glossary” mini-book by Modal I got from @can when stopping by at their NYC office
26 September
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AI doesn’t change it just easier to hack stuff together. That is not engineering tho ofc you don’t always need engineering
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London + UK not being part of the EU (and thus not being as bound by regulation that slows down innovation) is a reason the UK's tech industry can pull away from the rest of Europe
25 September
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After 20 years of little change, application development is now being hit by a new wave of change.Their words
Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now, a new wave is crashing in.
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Microsoft managed to make “Copilot” mean “AI slop” thanks shipping completely broken and forced Copilot features for years, so ppl hate it.
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Google integrated Gemini into every single place inside Google Workspace where it doesn't work, and nowhere where it would be useful
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TypescriptTheir words
Holy shit I was going through my old books and found the book I used to brush up on Typescript from 2019, and all my highlights in it It’s was by some random dev I never heard of back then, but remember it was a v good book This “random dev” is @bcherny 🙃
24 September
From one piece The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages 2 beliefs · blog.pragmaticengineer.com
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AI data centers have shifted from about 1 CPU per 8 GPUs to roughly 1:4, and the ratio could shrink to 1:1.Their words
AI data centers used to have a ratio of 1 CPU to 8 GPUs. Now the ratio is more 1:4, and it could shrink to 1:1.
The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortagesblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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It seems that spot pricing has vanished because there’s no longer any lack of demand for CPUs – quite the opposite. I was surprised, but a lot of people chimed in; apparently, it’s now nearly impossible to get CPUs on spot instances without long-running connections with cloud providers. Also, reserving specific CPUs now needs to be done months in advance, and cloud providers will even turn down certain reservations because they don’t have enough CPUs or the right type of CPUs.
The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortagesblog.pragmaticengineer.com
23 September
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AntithesisTheir words
• @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://antithesis.com/pragmatic
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Their business depends on co’s not having enough in-house dev capacity, and thus “renting” devs from them.
17 September
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- NewsletterAI Skills with Matt Pocock
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LinearTheir words
@linear – the product development system trusted by 40,000+ teams to plan and ship. Get six months of Linear Business for free: https://linear.app/pragmatic
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WorkOSTheir words
@WorkOS – The fastest AI-native teams have to slow down for the hard problems. WorkOS makes sure auth, for your app and your agents, is never one of them. https://workos.com/
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SubstackTheir words
Typing out a tag and pressing enter in Substack on a post no longer auto-focuses the textfield (impossible to add tags quick now, or just via keyboard I have to move the mouse to click).
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Google WorkspaceTheir words
Google Workspace search no longer shows folders by default in its autocomplete - meaning I need to press "enter" even when typing out the folder name I want, just to see it as the top search result after I press enter
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TinybeansTheir words
Tinybeans (an app I use to share photos of kids) tweaked its upload UI to remove segmenting photos by date - which was how I used it all the time
10 September
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AntithesisHQTheir words
@AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://antithesis.com/pragmatic
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EntireTheir words
@EntireHQ – Git hosting, rebuilt for the agentic era. Entire hosts your code in-region, and is up to 89x faster than any other competitor. https://entire.io/pragmatic
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Staff EngineerTheir words
Leadership Beyond the Management Track. The best resource so far on what it's like to get - and perform - at the above senior engineering levels. A very good read.
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The Coding Career HandbookTheir words
guides, principles, strategies and tactics from code newbie to senior developer.
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14 Habits of Highly Productive DevelopersTheir words
a short and sweet book, with good inspiration from prolific software engineers.
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The Standout DeveloperTheir words
a complete guide for developers on job hunting, acing the interview and landing the job. I like the authentic voice from Randall. I'd recommend this book for people starting out in software, or with a few years' experience.
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De-Coding The Technical Interview ProcessTheir words
A fresh take on navigating the tech the interview process, tailored for frontend engineers. She wrote the book after she found Cracking the Coding Interview to be too Java/backend-focused. The book comes with 1, 2 and 4-week learning plans as well. A great book to start with.
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System Design Interview - An insider's guideTheir words
I've so far not seen good book resources to prepare for the systems design / architecture interview. This book from Alex Xu is the most promising one as of yet.
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Cracking the Coding InterviewTheir words
a classic to prepare for the data structures and algorithms interviews.
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A Philosophy of Software DesignTheir words
There are few books like this, that discuss software design in a simple and approachable way, while leaving the reader novel and practical concepts to use.
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Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsTheir words
The most practical book I've found so far on distributed systems.
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Tidy First?Their words
"Tidy First? is the first in a series of books about software design. Kent has been coming back to the topic of “taming” software design in a digestible format."
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Working Effectively with Legacy CodeTheir words
Legacy code has no test and is not written to be testable. Touching it this sphaghetti code somewhere breaks the system. And to refactor safely, we'd need to have tests first... but where to start? This book gives practical suggestions
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C# in DepthTheir words
C# is the language I probably understood down to the nitty-gritty details. Just when I thought myself of being an expert - knowing all that is to know on memory allocation, garbage collection, LINQ - I read this book. It made me realize how many things I did not know.
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Javascript: The Good PartsTheir words
Before this book I used to think that Javascript is "bad" or a "hacky" language. This book changed my perspective, understanding some tradeoffs and some remarkable strengths of this weakly typed language that is starting to take over the world. Note that this book is now dated
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Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready SoftwareTheir words
A useful read for more experienced engineers and those wanting to improve architecture and devops skills on designing and operating reliable systems. The content is excellent, but the book is not designed to be read in one sitting.
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a good overview of SRE at Google. For those who worked at places with oncall, much of the first part of the book will likely be very familiar. Keep in mind that your mileage might vary: what works at Google scale, might not be the ideal fit for your use case.
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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET LibrariesTheir words
An eye-opening view on considerations going into building a widely used public API or reusable library. While the book focuses on the .NET framework, many of the conventions apply to maintainable and reusable components, in general. This book had an outsized impact on me as I read it when I was a mid-level .NET developer.
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Become an Effective Software Engineering ManagerTheir words
A hands-on book for people transitoning to management, starting at a new company or looking to make more of an org-wide impact.
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The Engineering Executive's PrimerTheir words
"It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."
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Leading Effective Engineering TeamsTheir words
A decade of lessons learned in motivating and leading engineering teams at Google.
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An Elegant PuzzleTheir words
A long overdue read for engineering leads.
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The Manager’s PathTheir words
A concise guide for managers, from tech lead, through line managers, managers of managers, all the way to CTO. Very much recommended: I have gone back to re-read parts of it several times.
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The Making of a ManagerTheir words
A guide in going from being a first-time manager to becoming a senior manager in an organization. A refreshingly honest tone
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EMPOWEREDTheir words
The book describing how and why empowered teams power the most best product companies like Tesla, Netflix, or Apple. My experience at Uber matches that of the book. My only regret is I could not read it earlier.
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The GoalTheir words
Written in the '80s, yet a timeless novel on what management is about, may that be a manager of a team, an organization or an industrial plant.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamTheir words
A hard to put down story about a company struggling and how the leadership team comes together under a new leader, doing small things that end up making big differences.
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Turn the Ship AroundTheir words
A novel on empowerment, teamwork and breaking down the hierarchical structure. All of it taking place onboard a nuclear submarine (really!).
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The Phoenix ProjectTheir words
A novel inspired by the Goal, this time playing inside an enterprise in 2010.
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Radical CandorTheir words
The definite book about giving good and candid feedback - and a very useful read for new(ish) managers. The book is a list of ideas around the theme of caring personally and challenging directly.
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Not everyone gets a trophyTheir words
Tips and observations on how to manage the Millenial generation better. Some of these I found insightful, some were less of a surprise.
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First, Break all the RulesTheir words
Gallup interviewed thousands of high-performing teams and managers and found a dozen of things each of these teams had in common. While the insights are good, the content itself was quite dry for my taste.
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The NVIDIA WayTheir words
by Tae Kim. Enjoying it so far.
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Software Engineering at GoogleTheir words
the second part is interesting in getting a proper look into Google software engineering practices.
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The Software Engineer's GuidebookTheir words
the book I wrote as advice for engineers to grow professionally.
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TLDR NewsletterTheir words
The most interesting stories in tech, science and coding summarized, daily.
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ByteByteGo NewsletterTheir words
Explaining complex systems with simple terms. Written by Alex Xu, author of The Systems Design Interview.
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The PointerTheir words
fullstack engineer, product person and former VC. 10-15 links with a concise tl;dr; for each article.
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Programming DigestTheir words
CTO at Hatch. One email per week, 5 links of programming, big data, architecture, development processes and databases.
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iOS Dev WeeklyTheir words
A high-quality newsletter on everything iOS and Swift with lots of easily digestible content.
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The ChangelogTheir words
high-quality conversations with engineers, leaders, innovators in the tech world.
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Tech Lead JournalTheir words
discussions from software engineering leaders, with a focus on Asia and Europe.
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Greater Than CodeTheir words
a podcast with frequent software engineering guests from underrepresented groups. Weekly episodes on the human side of tech.
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HBR IdeaCastTheir words
an episode per week on a management topic featured in Harvard Business Review.
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