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INIT CAREER

How to Ask Senior Engineers Good Questions

001 of What I Learned This Week as a New Engineer from the INIT CAREER newsletter

Jul 24, 2020

How to Ask Senior Engineers Good Questions

Jul 24, 2020

Alejandro Contreras

Here’s Where You Stand in the Corporate Food Chain

There are folks who know that you have to hustle and there are winners that know how to hustle. What separates the two is hardly ever…

Mar 10, 2019

Here’s Where You Stand in the Corporate Food Chain

Mar 10, 2019

Alejandro Contreras

The Cornerstone Habit of Great Sleep

Habits pay compound interest. Over the course of your education, career, and home life the habits you form will determine the quality and…

Jan 12, 2019

The Cornerstone Habit of Great Sleep

Jan 12, 2019

Alejandro Contreras

Predicting All I Care About— Ws and Ls

I take notes as I read. More than once they’ve proven valuable to me, friends, and co-workers. Here are my notes on chapter 3 of Nate…

Oct 9, 2018

Predicting All I Care About— Ws and Ls

Oct 9, 2018

Alejandro Contreras

Are You Smarter Than A Television Pundit? Want to Be?

I take notes as I read. More than once they’ve proven valuable to me, friends, and co-workers. Here are my notes on chapter 2 of Nate…

Oct 6, 2018

Are You Smarter Than A Television Pundit? Want to Be?

Oct 6, 2018

Alejandro Contreras

A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction

I take notes as I read. More than once they’ve proven valuable to me, friends, and co-workers. Here are my notes on chapter 2 of Nate…

Oct 4, 2018

A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction

Oct 4, 2018

Alejandro Contreras

Why Our Predictions Are Failing Us

Here are my notes on the introduction to Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise. If you have any interest in becoming a better…

Sep 28, 2018

Why Our Predictions Are Failing Us

Sep 28, 2018

Alejandro Contreras

Strike a Better Deal by Seeing Through the Fog of Business Stats

Darrell Huff’s short read on how to detect and avoid BS has been so successful that you’ve probably read or experienced it in one form or…

Sep 28, 2018

Strike a Better Deal by Seeing Through the Fog of Business Stats

Sep 28, 2018

Alejandro Contreras
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The Startup

Learning How to be Original

It turns out you can learn how to develop, disseminate, convince people of, and get them to help execute your own brilliant ideas. That is…

Sep 6, 2018

Learning How to be Original

Sep 6, 2018

Alejandro Contreras

Don’t Believe In Evolution, Know It

Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show On Earth is one hell of an education. The book is the highlight reel of evidence for the Theory of…

Jul 3, 2016

Don’t Believe In Evolution, Know It

Jul 3, 2016

Alejandro Contreras

Alejandro Contreras

✎ Writing about the things I read, learn, and do, which usually center around data, economics, or process improvement (including my own life) ✍︎

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