Career Growth (117)

My learnings and notes from 10+ years of experience on how to become a better engineer and accelerate the career growth.

117 notes

2026

(49)

Sep 01

NOTE Choose a Depth, Not a Duration, To Navigate Rabbit Holes

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity #depth-boxing
Aug 21

NOTE Slop Debt

Career Growth #career-growth #consistency #devops-and-testing
Jul 27

NOTE Employ Social Proof to Ensure Your Professional Ideas Are Heard

Career Growth #career-growth #external-validation #idea-acceptance
Jul 16

NOTE Companies Hire Senior Engineers to Re-Solve Familiar Problems Efficiently

Career Growth #career-growth #career-impact #leadership
Jul 14

NOTE Direct Your Effort Towards Genuine Impact and Clear Personal Goals

Career Growth #career-growth #adaptability #goal-clarity
Jul 09

NOTE An Ideal Career Concludes With Five Dimensions Equally Balanced

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #career-balance
Jul 05

NOTE Struggling While Learning Is Proof You Are Doing It Right

Career Growth #career-growth #confusion #learning-struggle
Jul 03

NOTE Startup Hiring Pitch of Unlimited Autonomy Is Usually a Lie

Career Growth #career-growth #focus #leadership
Jun 30

NOTE Optimizations Are Trades Made Within Constraints With No Free Lunch

Career Growth #career-growth #concurrency #concurrency-control
Jun 25

NOTE Effort and Intensity, Not Time, Determine Skill Acquisition

Career Growth #career-growth #clock-synchronization #effort
Jun 24

NOTE Leverage Curiosity or Fear to Boost Your Productivity Levels

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity #fear
Jun 23

NOTE Resist Rewarding Shortcuts That Undermine First Principles Thinking

Career Growth #career-growth #cognitive-habits #first-principles-thinking
Jun 21

NOTE Owning Up to Mistakes Accelerates Learning and Builds Professional Trust

Career Growth #career-growth #accountability #leadership
Jun 19

NOTE Higher Compensation Limits Job Options But Demonstrable Impact Creates Opportunities

Career Growth #career-growth #career-choices #higher-compensation
Jun 17

NOTE Overcome Feeling Stuck By Prioritizing and Taking Action

Career Growth #career-growth #overwhelm #prioritization
Jun 15

NOTE How Four Key Traits Foster Decades of Sustained Growth

Career Growth #career-growth #craft-obsession #curiosity
Jun 12

NOTE Always Make Your Skills Visible To Secure Deserved Opportunities

Career Growth #career-growth #career-opportunities #self-promotion
Jun 02

NOTE New Hires Should Build Trust and Gather Context Before Suggesting Changes

Career Growth #career-growth #building-trust #communication
May 28

NOTE Improving Engineer Skills In Listening, Communication, And Empathy

Career Growth #career-growth #active-listening #clear-communication
May 27

NOTE Leverage Self-Doubt to Drive Learning and Deeper Exploration

Career Growth #career-growth #confidence #growth
May 15

NOTE Sound Confident and Trust Yourself Because Everything Is Figureoutable

Career Growth #career-growth #confidence #problem-solving
May 12

NOTE Cultivate Strong Relationships and Empathy to Prioritize Your Tasks

Career Growth #career-growth #appreciation #building-relationships
May 11

NOTE Make code reviews your P0 task to unblock teammates quickly

Career Growth #career-growth #blocked-momentum #code-review
May 07

NOTE Simplify Tasks by Thinking Backwards from Your Desired Outcome

Career Growth #career-growth #backward-thinking #building
Apr 26

NOTE Four Strategies to Build Strong Mental Models for Better Learning

Career Growth #career-growth #connecting-knowledge #first-principles
Apr 24

NOTE Professional Composure Shifts Workplace Dynamics When Confronting Arrogance

Career Growth #career-growth #collaboration #composure
Apr 20

NOTE Clear Goals and Visible Outputs Energize Work and Prevent Burnout

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #goal-setting
Apr 13

NOTE Asking for Help is Good, But Quality Matters

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #debugging
Apr 08

NOTE Asking for Advice Rather Than Feedback Is More Effective

Career Growth #career-growth #advice #feedback
Apr 07

NOTE Giving More Talks is the Only Way to Improve

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Apr 01

NOTE Forming a Career Thesis

Career Growth #career-growth #career-advice #career-planning
Mar 30

NOTE Inbox Zero Builds Trust Through Reliability

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #devops-and-testing
Mar 26

NOTE Cultivating Curiosity When Your Beliefs Are Challenged

Career Growth #career-growth #beliefs #curiosity
Mar 16

NOTE Fundamentals Still Matter, Despite AI Handling Implementation

Career Growth #career-growth #ai #fundamentals
Mar 12

NOTE The Value of Spiky Teams in the Tech Industry

Career Growth #career-growth #candidate-assessment #databases
Mar 11

NOTE Boredom as a signal to find a harder problem

Career Growth #career-growth #boredom #motivation
Mar 09

NOTE Clarity is the difference between a good design doc

Career Growth #career-growth #clear-communication #communication
Mar 05

NOTE Don't Use Chat For Critical Decision Documentation

Career Growth #career-growth #chat-tools #concurrency
Mar 03

NOTE Software Engineering Becomes Project Management Without Innovation

Career Growth #career-growth #bureaucracy #innovation
Feb 09

NOTE Venting at Work Comes at a Reputation Cost

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Feb 09

NOTE Venting Can Hurt Your Reputation at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #reputation
Feb 08

NOTE Why Half Your Skills Expire Every Few Years

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jan 28

NOTE The Wisdom of Choosing What You Can Ignore

Career Growth #career-growth #attention-management #focus
Jan 26

NOTE Intentionally Go Deep Based on Curiosity and Career

Career Growth #career-growth #abstraction-layers #career-direction
Jan 19

NOTE Toxic productivity and the need for sustainable rest

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #productivity
Jan 18

NOTE Delusional People Win by Building at Speed of Thought

Career Growth #career-growth #building #consensus
Jan 13

NOTE Curiosity Alone Does Very Little Unless Applied

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity
Jan 11

NOTE Thinking Is a Habit, Not an Innate Talent

Career Growth #career-growth #habit #thinking
Jan 04

NOTE Software Knowledge Decay Requires Weekly Learning Investment

Career Growth #career-growth #half-life #knowledge-decay

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Nov 24

NOTE The Day I Accidentally Deleted Production

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Oct 05

NOTE How to Handle Arrogant Colleagues at Work

Career Growth #career-growth
Sep 29

NOTE You Can't Fix Everything on Day One

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #databases
Sep 25

NOTE When Emotions Spill Over at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Sep 22

NOTE Meetings With No Agenda Are a Waste of Time

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Sep 18

NOTE Growth Isn't About Doing Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #system-design
Sep 13

NOTE Career Longevity Beats Constant Job Hopping

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Sep 08

NOTE Stay Relevant at Higher Salary Levels

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Sep 01

NOTE Should You Do a Master's My Honest Take

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 29

NOTE Empathy Makes Great Engineers Unstoppable

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Jul 21

NOTE Good Mentors Build People, Not Just Skills

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 14

NOTE Why You Should Always Have Back-Burner Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Jun 30

NOTE Before You Push Back, Know What You're Standing On

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #productivity
Jun 27

NOTE Writing a Design Document Improves Project Ideas

Career Growth #career-growth #design-document #project-idea
Jun 23

NOTE Be the One They Can Count On

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #fault-tolerance
Jun 16

NOTE How Much Are People Willing to Bet on You

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 10

NOTE How to Get Leadership to Say Yes to Your Project

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 02

NOTE Don't Let Your Best Ideas Die in Silence

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
May 26

NOTE Be the Person Everyone Wants to Work With

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
May 22

NOTE The XY Problem and How to Avoid It

Career Growth #career-growth
May 19

NOTE The Startup Hiring Lie Nobody Talks About

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
May 16

NOTE You Won't Be Promoted Unless You Ask

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
May 12

NOTE It's Not Enough to be Right; Learn to be Heard

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Apr 23

NOTE No One Ships Great Software Alone

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Apr 14

NOTE You Don't Win by Proving Others Wrong

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Apr 09

NOTE Appreciate Generously; It Costs Nothing, But Builds Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Mar 24

NOTE Your Soft Skills Aren't Soft at All

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Mar 21

NOTE Before you form an opinion, experience it

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #productivity
Mar 18

NOTE Why You Need Both Curiosity and Action to Thrive

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Mar 10

NOTE A Daily Worklog Changed Everything

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 06

NOTE How We Handle Mistakes Defines Us

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 06

NOTE Own Your Mistakes

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 04

NOTE Don't Wait. Step Up.

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Feb 25

NOTE Temporary Fixes Are Permanent

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 18

NOTE Why Interviews Are Biased And What Sets You Apart

Career Growth #career-growth #fault-tolerance #interviews
Feb 11

NOTE Saying 'This isn't my problem' is actually the problem

Career Growth #career-growth #code-review
Feb 07

NOTE How to Write Effective OKRs

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 04

NOTE Never Lose a Battle due to Miscommunication

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 13

NOTE How to Follow Up Without Annoying People

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Jan 07

NOTE Lead Projects That Land, Execution Over Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership

2024

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Dec 12

NOTE Abstract Thinking Will Define Your Next Decade

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 11

NOTE We Engineers Suck at Task Estimation

Career Growth #career-growth #devops-and-testing
Dec 10

NOTE Shiny Obect Syndrome in Tech

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 19

NOTE When to Change Jobs - The 3P Framework

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 02

NOTE Comfort and Competition - Know When to Switch Gears

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Aug 26

NOTE Don't Wait, Learn - The Best Resource is Mythical

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Aug 13

NOTE The Unexpected Benefit of Reading Random Engineering Articles

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #databases
Aug 12

NOTE Roadmaps Are Limiting Your Growth

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Aug 06

NOTE Stop Leaving Money on the Table - Negotiate Your Job Offer

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews
Jul 31

NOTE Never Bad-Mouth Your Past Employers

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews
Jul 29

NOTE Show You're a Culture Fit

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #interviews
Jul 23

NOTE Quantify your resume, Know Your Numbers

Career Growth #career-growth #information-retrieval #leadership
Jul 15

NOTE The Importance of Being Likeable in Interviews

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews #leadership
Jul 08

NOTE Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews #leadership
Jul 01

NOTE How to Build Trust Through Collaboration

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #concurrency
Jun 20

NOTE Do This, Once You Are Out of the Interview Cycle

Career Growth #career-growth #databases #interviews
Jun 17

NOTE Stop Pitching Ideas, Start Pitching Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 10

NOTE Read Those Design Docs, Even the Ones That Seem Irrelevant

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
May 29

NOTE The Best Engineering Lessons Happen During Outages

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
May 27

NOTE Great Engineers Start Broad

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
May 21

NOTE LLM Summaries are Ruining Your Learning

Career Growth #career-growth #llms #productivity
Apr 18

NOTE Engineers Should Align Work With Business Priorities

Career Growth #career-growth #business-outcomes #leadership
Mar 27

NOTE Title Inflation

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews
Mar 11

NOTE At Work, Find Your Own Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Jan 15

NOTE 6 Simple Strategies to Cracking Any Tech Interview

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews #python-internals

2023

(1)

Nov 16

NOTE How to Remain Unblocked

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership

2020

(2)

Jul 05

NOTE 10x Engineer DNA

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 28

NOTE Habits that Make a Great Programmer

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership

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