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Nov 2021
The Present of Coding, Late 2021
It’s fun to talk about the future of coding. It’s good to have a destination. But as I age and worry less about seeming impressive and think …
14
Oct 2021
Hiring Engineers
For over three and a half years, hiring engineers has been on the front or back of my mind. No single thing I do is unique, but the …
13
Oct 2021
How to Grow Without Losing Your Soul
The most common question candidates ask me is, “how quickly do you plan to grow the team?” What they’re really asking is, “am I going to be …
02
Aug 2021
Leading When Everyone Has a Say
Before I led teams or had kids, I thought leadership was a personality trait. Something you’re born with. It’s not. It’s a role. Get two or …
16
Jun 2021
Keep It Concrete
I’m reading through LeviathanCoding’s Pixel Art Editor trying to learn p5.js. What’s great about it is you see everything on the screen at …
10
Jun 2021
Speed as a Proxy for Everything Else
At Replit we ship fast and want to keep shipping fast as we grow. That means we’re watching how fast people work throughout the interview …
09
Jun 2021
Project Management For People Who Just Want To Build
It’s funny to realize, as I’m pacing around the room thinking of how to open this post, that I’ve been working for sixteen years and not …
08
Jun 2021
Gatekeepers
At Replit we say we’re out to demolish gatekeepers. Learning to code helps people plug in to the fast-growing parts of the economy and we’ve …
04
May 2021
Everything Always Feels Broken
Reading about, but not partaking in, the dotcom boom of the nineties, the defining characteristic of startups seemed to be the hours worked. …
26
Apr 2021
Trust the Process
At various retrospectives and postmortems the past few weeks, there’s been a clear pattern. When a project has gone well, it turns out we’ve …
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