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# Work: about me

## General truths

* [I keep (re)learning this](https://twitter.com/tottinge/status/1329066180733251585)
* [Reflections After 15 Years of Working as a Software Developer](https://medium.com/better-programming/reflections-after-15-years-working-as-a-software-developer-cabf610f51a0)
* [A few rules](https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/a-few-rules/)
* [68 Percent of Employees Are Disengaged, But There Is a Scientifically Proven Way to Boost Engagement](https://www.inc.com/sonia-thompson/68-percent-of-employees-are-disengaged-but-there-i.html)

## Bias

* [If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?](https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week)
* [I could build this during the weekend](https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i-could-build-this-during-the-weekend-aa093c5e)
* [Code-wise, cloud-foolish](https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/code-wise-cloud-foolish)

## Perfomance

* [Welcome to Your 1:1s Repo](https://github.com/sophshep/one-on-one)
* [Becoming a High-Performance Software Engineer](https://medium.com/riskified-technology/becoming-a-high-performance-software-engineer-895ec6949782)

## Growing

* [Career Ladders](https://career-ladders.dev/engineering/)
* [Scaling Yourself • Scott Hanselman • GOTO 2012 (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1mnISoG7U\&ab_channel=GOTOConferences)
* [Early work - Paul Gaham](http://paulgraham.com/early.html)
* [How to achieve career growth: opportunities, skills & sponsors](https://yenkel.dev/posts/how-to-achieve-career-growth-opportunities-skills-sponsors)
* [Career advice for people with bad luck](https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad)
* [Choosing the management track](https://blog.danielna.com/choosing-the-management-track/)
* [Short Fat Engineers Are Undervalued](https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued)
* [Software Engineering Leadership is not (Only) About Coding Well](https://gadon.medium.com/software-engineering-leadership-is-not-only-about-coding-well-1d5d1e43029)
* [Developer progression as a function](https://www.siddharthsarda.com/p/developer-progression-as-a-function)
* [The engineer/manager pendulum](https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum/)
* [Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287617)

## Daily work

* [Being visible](https://lethain.com/being-visible/)
* [Things to know about engineering levels](https://charity.wtf/2020/09/14/useful-things-to-know-about-engineering-levels/)
* [Your first day as a new engineering manager](https://pragmaticlead.com/posts/your-first-day-as-new-software-engineering-manager)
* [Maximixing developer effectiveness](https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html)
* [My Leadership Document — 2021 Edition](https://www.subbu.org/articles/2021/my-leadership-document-2021-edition/)
* [Decision Tree Analysis: How to Make Effective Decisions](https://fellow.app/blog/productivity/decision-tree-analysis-how-to-make-effective-decisions/)

## Health

* [Burnout in Software Development Demystified](https://thevaluable.dev/burnout-software-developer/)