Inspirations
Great pieces of knowledge inspiring how I think & operate.
2 min readJul 24, 2024
- Death by Indigestion, by Bryce Roberts
- How we designed our company for speed, by Posthog
- Technical evaluation of a startup, by Ian Langworth
- How we do Architecture at Okta, by Monica Bajaj and Mark Voelker
- How novelty effects and Dopamine Culture rule the tech industry, by Andrew Chen
- Site Reliability Engineering and the Art of Improvisation, by Matt Davis
- Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans, by Abi Noda and Tim Cochran
- We need more calm companies, by Justin Jackson
- Thoughts on Pair Programming, by Shahar Kedar
- Everyday storytelling for engineers. The CAO Method., by Tony Freed
- Dependencies In Fast(er) Growing Companies, by John Cutler
- You might not need that costly time consuming infra re org, by Ala Shiban
- Redefining Developer Experience, by Cole Peters
- How to put the plus in ‘staff+’ engineer, by Github
- Own It Mentality, by David Perell
- Architects, anti-patterns, and organizational fuckery, by Charity Majors
- Superlinear Returns, by Paul Graham
- AI Product Management, by Marty Cagan and Marily Nika
- How to grow as an Engineering Manager, by Srivatsan Sridharan
- Diving into Engineering Metrics, by Nicola Ballotta
- Before Growth, by Sam Altman
- Aging Code, by Vadim Kravcenko
- My approach to coding interviews: Optimize for iteration, by Surma
- How GitHub’s CTO Architects Engineering Teams That Scale, by FirstMark
- The Rise of the AI Engineer, by swyx & Alessio
- So You Want to Hire for Developer Tooling, by Hazel Weakly
- Why analytics engineering is game design, by @gwenwindflower
- Engineering Levels: A Simple Framework for Startups, by Marcelo Wiermann
- Startup = Growth, by Paul Graham
- Why You Should Run Your Platform Team Like a Product Team, by Gerald Yerden II
- AI-First Product Design, by Itai Kranz
- MVP: The Most Valuable Programmer, by Arend van Beelen
- Culture Viruses, by Stay SaaSy
- The age of cargo cult Agile must end., by Jason Yip
- The difference between good and great engineers, by Darragh Curran
- Engineering Maturity Model, by Mike Fisher
- KPIs for Early Stage CTOs, by Britton Broderick
- Hiring For Additivity, by Aaron Lerch
- Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis, by Casey Rosenthal
- Conway’s Law, by Martin Fowler
- Symptoms of a broken product culture — Part 1, by Miguel Carruego
- First rule of the team: size, by Kirill Kolyaskin
- CTO from startup to scaleup, by Hugo lassiege
- How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth, by Jade Rubick
- What Is Negative Engineering?, by Jeremiah Lowin
- The superpowers of Hybrid Profiles, by Florian Fesseler
- Cost of (employee) attrition, by Benji Weber
- A New Way to Think About Product-Market Fit, by Erez Druk
- How To (Not) Plan A Career, by Paul Millerd
- No code reviews by default, by Thomas Paul Mann
- How organisations are changing, by @swardley
- Rituals for hypergrowth: An inside look at how YouTube scaled, by Shishir Mehrotra
- Hiring vs nurturing managers, by João Alves
- Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck, by Dave Kellogg
- The art of self-organizing engineering teams, by LeadDev
- Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses, by Benji Weber
- Do Things that Don’t Scale, by Paul Graham
