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Thank you for writing this

How do you know your skill is degrading? Could it be the old "the more you know, the more you know you don't know"?

Well said. Also "that metadata doesn't leave the ivory tower" is wonderfully concise.

Yes. When I was very inexperienced I still remember being interviewed by an extremely big dog in the open-source world (he was VP of engineering at a very successful startup). I wa…

I agree that ending an interview early is a no-go. However if it's an onsite/process with multiple interviews, I think the fairest approach (and I've done this in the past) is to m…

Timing matters. The latest generation of VR headsets are incredible. I feel like this point matters, the same way that Netflix needing broadband to be fast enough to stream video m…

I'll pay the extra money and get the valve index just to avoid doing business with FB

Thanks for doing the AMA! How did you discover your repeatable distribution channel, and what did it end up being?

Very true. This is one of the amazing things about Stripe support. They are the only large company where the first person you talk to actually has a clue

This guy deliberate practices

Yep, I do the same. I also combine with github wiki for larger projects and documentation (often these will reference a bunch of issues).

Yep, the projector approach is what I've used before. Here are some pics/write up: https://coursemaker.org/blog/create-affordable-lay-down-desk...

This. Comments are for why.

This, this, a thousand times this.

LearnWorlds is a solid choice. If you're after a course platform tailored for technical courses, check out https://coursemaker.org

Obligatory XKCD which brilliantly captures how management can fail to distinguish easy/hard tasks: https://xkcd.com/1425/

Haha, love that show. There's definitely a parody in there somewhere > Now that I know what software estimation is, I no longer need you.

Great post. A key point you don't bring up is the aftermath, even if you do deliver. Especially in non-tech companies there still remains the tendency to view these projects as "do…

I can see this being really useful on documentation sites, kudos. If you want to make money from your coding knowledge, CourseMaker [1] has similar functionality with video hosting…

You can build your own site like this with CourseMaker[1] (disclaimer: I'm the founder). We don't have SQL support yet, but you can create interactive exercises with JS, Python, Go…

Could you elaborate on what living non-traditionally looked like for you? What was your thought process going off script, and what made you decide to change course back to a regula…

Shades of PG's "Why Nerds are Unpopular" [1] > "As far as I can tell, the concept of the hormone-crazed teenager is coeval with suburbia. I don't think this is a coincidence. I thi…

A lot of busy, smart people have seemingly random side-projects. For example, Von Neumann: "A professor of Byzantine history at Princeton once said that von Neumann had greater exp…