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Roses are red / This pairing is for you

It took me a long time to understand the joys of pair programming.

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Lessons Learned from our First #RealWorldCode Live Stream

Earlier this month, Betsy and I tried to live stream a pairing session and failed miserably. But! We had fun, so we spent about 30m performing a retrospective on our Debugging a Race Condition in Cypress event. To expose our…

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Level up by managing up: an engineer’s primer

A few months back, I shared a quick lightning talk at Fog City Ruby on managing…

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Cohere 2018 Year in Review — Reflections on Financial, Mental, Physical and Relational Health

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Engineering Managers: It’s Time to Write Better Job Descriptions

Software engineers have the highest turnover rate of any industry with an average tenure of 2~3 years. Why? Because people leave managers, not companies, and as Nicole Sanchez and Danilo Campos point out, tech is full…

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Passion isn’t terrible

Passionate candidates can be counterproductive to your company’s goals if that…

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Pair programming problems are not a smell

Earlier this year, Betsy and I sat down and wrote down a few dozen types of…

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Designing a Directed Conversational Interview

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Dr. Daniel Kahneman introduces the concept of a fact-based, structured interview to mitigate the numerous cognitive biases that come into play when assessing an individual’s aptitude for leadership positions. This article…

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Practical Empathy, or: How I Stopped Hating Pair Programming

I used to think I hated pairing.

One of my first experiences pairing was with my least favorite co-worker. In my previous programming jobs, I’d always been the only Rails developer, or one of two, and…

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Introducing “Let’s Pair!”, A Zine Series on Effective Pair Programming Techniques

Pair programming! As polarizing a topic as the Editor Wars. People love or hate pairing, and for good reason! It’s a tough skill with benefits that aren’t always immediately clear. It can be…

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