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Your manager has already put you in a box.
You've been categorized into one of 3 buckets:
🌟 The "stars" who get the best projects and promotions
✅ The "solid performers" who reliably get work done
📊 The "baseline" who just meet expectations
Moving between buckets doesn't…
My airpods went missing a couple of weeks ago and now they're in a part of town that I don't recognize. Should I play an annoying sound intermittently? Should I mark them as lost?
AI will turn non-coders into coders, so everybody can experience 0 → 1.
AI will turn every 1x developer into a 10x team lead.
If you're already a 10x developer, you'll be able to run a company on your own.
The age of the 1-person billion dollar company is coming.
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I think there's more reverse ageism in the tech industry than traditional ageism.
When someone looks older, I tend to think by default that they know more and question them less.
When someone looks like they're straight out of school, it's hard for people to take them as…
Meeting culture is insanely expensive.
A 30-minute meeting with 8 people isn't just 30 minutes.
It's:
4 hours of organizational time
15+ minutes of context switching per person
Deep work fragmented into unproductive chunks
And that's PER WEEK if it's recurring.
Meeting debt…
The person with the most scars has wisdom. But the person with the most wisdom doesn't collect scars.
I used to believe you had to experience pain firsthand to learn deeply.
But that's the expensive way to get educated.
If you've watched someone destroy their career through…
In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos referred a friend for a job.
The team rejected him and wrote a 6-page memo explaining why.
They were worried that they would anger Jeff.
His response? "OK, thanks."
He never even read the memo.
The lesson: Great leaders install…
Every time there's been new programming tools, we've needed MORE programmers, not fewer.
AI can code faster than us, but it can't learn and adapt like we do.
As we solve existing problems, we shift focus to new ones.
The future is still bright for developers. 🚀
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