A few favorites
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How to find your blind spots
You probably aren't qualified to dissect your own failures because you're the idiot who screwed everything up.
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Customers extrapolate from quality
How do you strike a balance between getting customer feedback quickly and shipping something mediocre?
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What my toddler taught me about management
Toddlers provide the perfect environment to learn about human nature because they'll throw stuff at you when you make them mad.
Recent
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Building as a search algorithm
Finding the best place to build a castle.
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The ACE technique for starting new things
Building healthy habits without hating every minute of it.
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Maybe just use Rails
The four million things you need to figure out when assembling your own tech stack.
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Catching mistakes earlier
You don't need pixie dust (or LLM magic) to build your product faster.
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Venture money ain't free
When is VC money helpful? When is it harmful?
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Adding a sense of urgency to negotiations
How to speed up negotiations without looking like a total jerk.
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How employees can get burned in acquisitions
Outcomes for employees in middling acquisitions depend heavily on the character quality of the executive team.
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Getting people to care about what you're building
How can you let others know about your work without irritating them immensely?
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No distribution, no dice
You should be putting at least as much emphasis on early distribution as early product.
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Where are good startup ideas born?
How do you come up with a startup idea that's both ambitious and tractable?
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Why is selling software so weird?
Building software looks a lot like building a house, but selling the two couldn't be more different.
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Blockchains will maybe not destroy the planet
Cryptocurrency may be destroying the planet, but it could also help save it.
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Dreams and risks
In order to get investors and other employees on board, it pays to be clear-headed about the exact ways in which you're delusional.
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That code's going to get run like three times
Seriously - just do the thing manually until it becomes painful.
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Never reach out twice with the same value proposition
If you're going to show up uninvited to someone's inbox, make sure to bring an hors d'oeuvre.
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How to find founder/market fit
You don't have to fight fair when starting a company: choose a customer base where you already have a leg up.
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The fabled grand slam project
At a certain point in your career, "doing what you're told" goes from being an asset to a liability.
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Ludwig's journey to 1,000 views
Getting the word out about your startup is hard work: why not skip some of it?
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I hope distributed is not the new default
I miss people. :-(
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For low motivation days
How to get things done when your browser keeps navigating itself to Hacker News.
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Tock and the ORD Camp playbook
One engineer's clever trick to make himself a hub of the most interesting people in Chicago.
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Rocket League and root cause misattribution
People naturally tend to blame the most proximal cause of failure, but the reality is usually more complicated.
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Pay attention to time between wins
Allowing engineers on your team to go too long without concrete progress can initiate a vicious cycle.
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When hiring in secondary markets, seek out great teachers and avid learners
In secondary markets where employees stay longer, you need to find engineers that learn quickly and can help others do the same.
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Becoming an expert #2: the learning cycle
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Becoming an expert #1: Experts and expertise
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Be the team crier
If you close an issue but not one else notices, does it really make a sound?
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Organizing our team
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The Pomodoro Technique in practice
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Episode 3: The one where I skip way ahead and start finishing a railing
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Episode 2: The one where we rough the second bedroom in
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Episode 1: The one where I start blogging mid-renovation
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Re: Retaining Walls, extra lane could be in works for I-94
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Sharing work between computers with Git
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The 7 Habits summarized
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A personal constitution
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Org everywhere
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Most qualified
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Thou with hammer, whack
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Playing around with RPCs in Go
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The beauty of numpy
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The greedy strategy of self improvement
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Remedying a defect in spaceballs-mode
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The missing Emacs mode: spaceballs-mode
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Allergic to Q
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Sending our Friendly Veterinarian back to school
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Friendly Veterinarian: a simple emacs package