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Estimations Most deadlines aren’t deadlines because a lot of them are breached and no one dies. April 28, 2023 ·

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Making Money With only a job, the probability of making it big is equivalent to the inverse of DynamoDB's uptime. April 22, 2023 ·

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Promotions If you ever feel like wanting to get a promotion, rethink your priorities until you no longer feel like that. April 17, 2023 ·

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Finding a Job A developer in a startup would have a hard time clearing interviews in a big organization and fitting in and vice versa is equally true. April 8, ...

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Refactors As Naval Ravikant said, 10000 iterations, not 10000 hours. March 30, 2023 ·

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Making Games There is a difference in the following: Making games because you like playing games. Making games to make money. Making games for a professional ca...

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DevOps Doing DevOps will make you a better engineer. Period. March 12, 2023 ·

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Infrastructure Understand the basics and no matter how much I stress this, someone is still going to get an AWS Associate Architect certificate and be completel...

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Programming Applications After all the effort in studying the pros and cons and viability of a solution, if you are still stuck on deciding between two techs, f...

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Managing Peers Be willing to help others especially when they are blocked. Unblock others first. They will like you and be willing to return the favors. Be reli...

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Managing Managers A note of caution here is that if your manager is a project manager, do not ever aspire to take that seat. In good software companies, I belie...

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Managing Reports Ideally, you or your organization should hire people no one has to manage. February 3, 2023 ·

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Hiring If a candidate’s interview feedback is not a “HELL YES!!!”, err on the side of rejecting a good resource than hiring an average one. January 25, 2023 ·

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Professionalism You should have the ability to work according to the environment and expectations. A professional software engineer in a startup vs a corporate ...

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Communication Be a good writer and you will become a good human being and certainly a superior professional. January 7, 2023 ·

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Do not be that person In organizations, when talking, especially asynchronously, always give proper context about what you are talking about and the entire back...

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Paths less traveled Art is abundant and scarce at the same time. Abundant that it is everywhere. It manifests for the keen wherever they want it. August 6, 2022...

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A million-dollar routine Disclaimer: It hasn't made me a million yet. August 5, 2022 ·

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Intuition Strong intuition is a superpower and a curse at the same time. July 24, 2022 ·

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All advice is bad advice For any advice put forth by anyone in public, I believe, there should be polar opposite advice put forth as well. July 23, 2022 ·

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