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Magnitudes of exploration. | Irrational Exuberance

#architecture #career #management #programming #software | <blockquote>Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.</blockquote>

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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | Jun, 2021 | Medium

#advice #career #engineering #management #programming #skills | <blockquote>For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.</blockquote>

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Staying on the path to high performing teams. | Irrational Exuberance

#building #career #collaboration #hiring #management #programming | <blockquote>As a caveat, the system fix is to hire net-new people, increasing the overall capacity of the company. Sometimes folks instead attempt to capture more resources from existing company, and I’m pretty negative on that. People are not fungible, and generally folks end up in useful places, so I’m skeptical of reassigning existing folks to drive optimality. By nature, it’s also impossible for this kind of discussion to not become political, even when everyone involved has deep trust and r...

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Great developers are raised, not hired

#_culture #career #management #mentoring #programming #work

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