Only ten years late, I just finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. In it, Daniel Kahneman explores biases involved in human intuition. Among the many biases he explores, there’s the anchoring effect, where we don’t stray far from a number, even when it’s not relevant to the question at hand…

I’ve experienced increasing imposter syndrome through my career. It’s never gone away. Even now that I work at my dream company, even after being promoted to tech lead, I can’t escape the nagging feeling that I have no clue what I’m doing. I understand this is a common feeling, particularly…

How to Master the Time You’re Given — Halfway through last year, I found myself overwhelmed by my schedule. There were too many things to do and not enough time. As we bookworms tend to do, I set out to find books that would teach me to wrangle my schedule. I started with what felt like an obvious…

While I’m riffing off of Dan Luu’s post about not being afraid to look stupid, I want to think about asking Stupid Questions. In this post I want to explore: What is a stupid question? What are some examples? Why would I want to ask them? Why don’t I ask…

The last time I wrote a regular blog post was about one year ago. Now, as we all know, a few things have happened in the world since then. So, it could be understandable if I didn’t post anything. …

This post originally appeared on JustinDFuller.com. One of my favorite reads is Joel Spolsky’s Things You Should Never Do. He wrote this post almost twenty years ago, outlining the downfall of Netscape and others because they spent years rewriting working code. His solution is, unsurprisingly, to refactor. …

This post originally appeared on JustinDFuller.com. This series, Go Things I Love, is my attempt to show the parts of Go that I like the best, as well as why I love working with it at The New York Times. In my last post Go Things I Love: Methods On…

This post originally appeared on JustinDFuller.com. Now that I am working with Go as my primary language at The New York Times, I want to explore some of my favorite features of the language. …