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(not the author, but here's how I think about it) Assuming that you're not a commodity product, it all kinda nets out in the end. If you have a competitive market, you have proof t…

Wholeheartedly agree. Personas are useful for developing a general character that you can refer to. But you still have to be able to say "Alice Robertson, who is a demand-gen marke…

I have used Modernist Cuisine at Home for years. The techniques are a little more approachable for the home chef, and the results are A+. And if science-infused cooking is your jam…

Spiritually, there is a dichotomy, but it is (as most things) perhaps more nuanced than you've laid out here. This dichotomy is also commonly referred to as "top-down vs bottom-up"…

There are a couple of buried pieces in here. The first two examples are founders who moved from Europe to San Francisco. Given the entrepreneurial ecosystem in most mid-to-large U.…

This has happened before. From 2000-2004, this was the world. Companies were going out of business or cutting headcount to the bone, and the folks with 7+ years of experience were …

For early stage growth companies (say Middle stage (anywhere from 100 to 1000 employees), I think there's a lot of space for remote. You're competing for talent with everyone at th…

+1 to statsd. We've moved from SignalFX to Chronosphere, all using statsd and without having to change any of our application metrics-gathering code.

At best, the primary reasons companies do unlimited PTO is that it's just not worth it to invest in official rules and some sort of tracking system. Just say "take what you need" a…

We have an alternative path that works for us: get a terrible, ugly, but functional version of the feature up as quickly as possible. Preferably, the uglier the better. Skip the te…

As a suggestion for finding mentors, maybe just track down some senior software engineers at OpenAI and the like and drop them a cold email explaining that you're curious and would…

The word "soccer" started in England as a slang of "association," which became "assocc" and then "soccer." Americans learned the word from the English. It may also surprise you to …

Reading up on the stuff that's actually coming out of the can, it doesn't look like there are particles that are small enough to actually aerosolize into the air. They tout wool an…

> his fantastic universe is pervaded by an overwhelming force of goodness that seeks to bring events to their right conclusion through divine providence. That is, in fact, explicit…

IANAL. It is not an absolute requirement. It is often preferred from EU-based customers to store their data in EU-based data centers because then that data is subject to EU law, wh…

I've got a friend who made the transition. Ultimately, he went to law school because he didn't feel there was career growth as just a patent agent... you've got to be a full-on att…

Some of the other answers here appear to be "just don't do it," which I don't think is helpful. I also struggle with the Joneses. For me, it helps to hold in my mind what the Jones…

I worked alongside Gravwell on a volunteer effort at a conference, and will attest that they're phenomenal folks!

I've seen $600/hour rates for individual engineering work on mission-critical systems or high-revenue systems. There are two massive factors impacting rates: sophistication of the …

Recharge Payments | Senior Engineers (Python, Ruby, frontend, data, etc.), Principal Engineer, various EM | full Remote US Recharge is hiring several roles in our engineering team!…

ReCharge Payments | Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services | Remote US | Full-Time ReCharge is a software-as-a-service platform that manages subscription payments and customer…

No. USPS still has to stop by all of the houses anyway to pick up mail as well. So junk mail subsidizes the cost of going to all of those remote homes.

I have absolutely zero connection here, but saw elsewhere that Specialized (the bicycle company) is hiring for a lot of software engineering positions in Boulder, CO that would hit…