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Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by fuball63 »

mholm wrote: post #21
fuball63 wrote: post #3

Here are some I like: http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/ https://idlewords.com/ https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com https://erasmatazz.com https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

Slatestarcodex is half back, in that the archives are available again, but he has not made any recent posts. A very good blog to go through the archives of, to anyone curious.

I actually got into SSC from his book, Unsong, which I really enjoyed (and will probably have to read again now!). http://unsongbook.com/

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by klenwell »

gandutraveler wrote: post #58
klenwell wrote: post #22

Are you a manager? Do you have a manager? https://www.askamanager.org/

Thanks for sharing this. As someone who is transitioning from an IC to manager, I found several helpful posts. This transition is the most stressful thing I have experienced in my career. Do you have any other recommendations blogs/books ?

Two classics that helped me a lot:

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27140043-high-output-man...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware

They don't go so much into the soft skills that are required and often the toughest part of the transition. That's where Alison Green's column (Ask A Manager) is great. (She's also written some books but I have not read them. I imagine they're great too.)

I'd recommend signing up for the newsletter and then simply reading it daily as a sort of game or quiz. Imagine you're confronting the situation described. How you would deal with it? Then compare your response with hers.

You'll soon identify some common fairly obvious techniques that will resolve 90% of problems. Probably the two most common ones:

- Did you clearly state your expectations?

- Did you communicate your concerns calmly and directly to this person?

Finally, this Hacker News thread from years ago addresses exactly your situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643

See in particular jbob24's comment.

Congratulations and good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

sbmthakur wrote: post #59
vishnu_ks wrote: post #51

I am building https://diff.blog , an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by sol…

That's a nice service. Do you plan to launch an Android app for the same? I have been using FinBloggers, which serves as a one stop solution for me for finance related blogs. I am searching a similar app for development blogs.

Thanks! Don't have plan for an app soon. But I would be working on making the website work relly well on mobile.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by ahstilde »

Not a blog, but All Schemes Considered ( allschemesconsidered.com ) is really, really informative for me as an engineer working at early-stage startups. I'm trying to get the hosts to create transcripts.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by maverickJ »

I am plugging in my newsletter https://leveragethoughts.substack.com which has made the front page a couple of times recently.

Why should you read it? You should read it if you're interested in learning about ideas from finance, business,science and technology that can be applied. I also write about ideas and concept that I originated.

Who am I? I am a software engineer who loves learning about all things business, psychology and science. I also built a small startup in Europe with my close friend while I was in university.

Some of the themes I have touched on are: 1. The price you pay for your first major project https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/paying-a-premium-on-... 2. Why it sometimes pays to leverage ideas that have worked https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/originality-is-not-t... 3. The importance of showing your work to the right audience https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/cracking-the-who-you...

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