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Sharing learnings from the transparent career stories of technical people, written by an ex-software engineer @ Instagram

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Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Get a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg

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Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones

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Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson

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3 Top Takeaways From Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Engineer | James Cowling

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Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Eng: Building Great Systems and Advice for the AI Era | James Cowling

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Takeaways from Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++)

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Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup

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Takeaways from Harvard CS Professor David J Malan

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Harvard Professor: CS50, What Matters More Than CS, Lecturing Well

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Takeaways from a PyTorch Eng Director at MSL

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PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets

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Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems

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AWS Distinguished Eng: Learnings From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing

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Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings

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High Performers Understand Incentives

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OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex

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Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets

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Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings

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I Quit My Job

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Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams

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