Productivity & Career
Book reviews, engineering management, and career discussions
Benchmarking results are famously misleading. Here are the critical traps you must avoid when evaluating system changes.
Application analysis yields massive gains. Here are practical techniques and profiling pitfalls from Chapter 5, organized into a cheat sheet.
A skim-friendly summary of the key concepts and pitfalls from Chapter 2 (Methodology) of 'Systems Performance, 2nd Edition'.
Useful life-or-death negotiation tactics from the Bubble era. A review of '90% of Persuasion is Rephrasing' from a socially awkward perspective.
Boost your career with practical evaluation hacking. Learn strategic goal-setting, salary negotiation tactics, and the dark side of corporate politics.
Should you fix messy code immediately? Insights from 'Tidy First?' on applying economic rationality to the dilemma of refactoring vs. delivery.
Reading notes on 'How Google Works'. Organizing principles for creating environments where smart creatives can thrive and practice starting tomorrow.
