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47 lessons

Werd I/O
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Every year, for my birthday, I collect my thoughts. This year I want to share some things I’ve learned: one lesson for each year I've been around. You might agree or disagree with them; maybe a bit of both. But they’re ideas I’ve picked up that, at the very least,…

How I hire engineers

Werd I/O
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How I hire engineers

I once helped out a startup where the departed CTO had come up with what he thought was a clever way to hire engineers. He’d find people who performed very well on coding challenges — he used something like LeetCode — but suffered when they were evaluated for their communication…

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

Kev Quirk
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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

by Joan Westenberg

Joan makes the case that the modern web, dominated by platforms and algorithms, has stripped away depth, ownership, and genuine thought. Blogging, she argues, is a quiet act of resistance that lets us think clearly, write freely, and leave something…

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