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AI & Technology
Clarity Beats “Thinking Harder”: Simplify LLM Reasoning
Simplify LLM reasoning by making intent explicit and trimming steps. Ground outputs with external checks to ship reliable, engineerable features.
Design AI Research Workflow: 3 Essential Levers for Focus
Balance focus and creativity by treating research as a tunable system: manage friction, diversify inputs, and turn exploration into concrete builds.
Coordination Beats Verbosity: Design Modular LLM Workflows
Coordination beats verbosity. Learn how to design modular LLM workflows by centralizing must-have rules, splitting single-purpose steps, and enforcing schemas for cleaner, more reliable outputs.
Career Growth
Content & Personal Brand
Education & Learning
Engineering Strategy
Avoid Short-Term Engineering Decisions with a 5-Minute Pause
A brief, repeatable five-minute pause—Stop, See, Steward—helps you avoid short-term engineering decisions by widening context and surfacing dependencies. Use it before planning, reviews, or AI deployment to make resilient choices.
Sell to Validate: Why Your First $1 Beats Any Plan
Stop polishing for imaginary users. Sell to validate—secure even $1 in two weeks to replace guesses with real customer proof and momentum.
Replace ‘Fundamentals’ With First Principles Performance Criteria
Stop grading on vague 'fundamentals.' Define outcomes, translate them into observable behaviors, and use first principles performance criteria to make fair, aligned decisions.
Leadership
Improve Decisions with Active Listening: Build a Proven Rhythm that Surfaces Blind Spots
Active, cross-domain listening reveals blind spots and sharpens decisions. Learn a simple cadence and learning notes that turn input into concrete roadmap updates.
Lead Decisively with Empathy: The Leadership Moment in Technical Teams
Empathy earns trust, but momentum comes from decisive, vision‑aligned calls. This practical playbook shows how to lead decisively with empathy so technical teams move together.
Avoid Snap Judgments in Tech
Before you rate a teammate or candidate, pause and ask, “What’s their story?” Avoid snap judgments in tech to make fairer, more accurate decisions.
Mindset & Well-Being
Productivity
How I Finally Got Moving: Small Steps for Big Goals
Ambitious goals shrink when you define one specific move to do today. This post shows engineers and AI builders how consistent micro-actions compound into real progress.
Tiny Habits for Software Engineers: Start Small, Build Momentum
Pick a friction-free, 2-minute start and repeat it daily. Tiny habits for software engineers lower activation energy, turning sporadic bursts into steady progress.
Why Wait for January? Stop Procrastinating on Goals and Build Momentum Now
Waiting for January wastes momentum. Take one small, intentional action today to lower activation energy and make consistent progress on the work that matters.
Professional Development
Work-Life Balance