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Dear 20 year old Software Engineer - Engineering with Yagiz

Before writing a letter to 20 year old me, it’s better to introduce myself. I am a Computer Engineering student at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. I’ve worked for more than 5 companies which ranges from startups to corporations.

The power of saying no | Tim Harford

‘Every time we say yes to a request, we are also saying no to anything else we might accomplish with the time’ Every year I seem to have the same resolution: say “no” more often. Despite my black belt in economics-fu, it’s an endless challenge. But economics does tell us a little about why “no”…

The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No - James Clear

The ultimate productivity hack is saying no. Not doing something will always be faster than doing it. This statement reminds me of the old computer programming saying, “Remember that there is no code faster than no code.” The same philosophy applies in other areas of life. For example, there is no meeting that goes faster […]

Security Issue in JWT Secret Poisoning (Updated)

We discovered a new high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-23529) in the popular JsonWebToken open source project.

JWT authentication: Best practices and when to use it - LogRocket Blog

A guide for using JWT authentication to prevent basic security issues while understanding the shortcomings of JWTs.

Adding JWT Authentication to React

Learn how to implement JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication in a React app using a standard flow, and how Clerk can make the process even easier.

Vulnerability: The Key to Better Relationships

Find out what vulnerability really is—and what it can and can't do for you.

Backup Data Anda: Cukup Satu Kejadian tak Terduga untuk Mengubur Bisnis dan Mimpi Anda Selamanya

Kamis, 28 Mei 2015 dini hari sekitar pukul 03:00 WIB hingga Minggu, 31 Mei 2015 pukul 00:45 WIB, situs Projects.co.id down akibat hardware failure. Itu adalah tujuh puluh jam terpanjang dalam hidup kami. Kami membagikan pengalaman dalam blog ini bagaimana kecerobohan dan kebodohan nyaris menghapus mimpi (dan hidup) kami, mengecewakan pengguna kami dan bagaimana agar ini tidak terjadi pada Anda.

GitLab.com database incident

Yesterday we had a serious incident with one of our databases. We lost six hours of database data (issues, merge requests, users, comments, snippets, etc.) for GitLab.com.

Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug

Get the latest news on how products at Cloudflare are built, technologies used, and join the teams helping to build a better Internet.

How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

Get the latest news on how products at Cloudflare are built, technologies used, and join the teams helping to build a better Internet.

Remodeling Cash App Payments | Square Corner Blog

Before we could partition our database we needed to prepare our data model. Here’s how we turned a simple normalized data model into one…

Sharding Cash | Square Corner Blog

A good problem to have: Scaling up the @CashApp database with Vitess.

Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess - Slack Engineering

From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is the present …

What is Vitess: resiliency, scalability, and performance

Learn what Vitess is, how it works, and how it can improve your database‘s resilience, scalability, and performance.

We migrated from PlanetScale to AWS Aurora v2

We started on PlanetScale because it was serverless. But they moved away from serverless, so we migrated to AWS Aurora v2

Endorphins: The brain’s natural pain reliever - Harvard Health

The power of the placebo effect - Harvard Health

Under the right circumstances, a placebo effect—in which the brain convinces the body a fake treatment is the real thing—can be as effective as traditional treatments.

8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?”

We’ve all been in the awkward situation of meeting someone new and having to build rapport quickly. If you’re like many people — especially most Americans — you break the awkward silence with a pretty standard question: “So, what do you do?” But that question might not be the best way to build rapport with someone else. In fact, it may be best to avoid talking about work entirely if you want to really build trust with people. Research shows that when we have information on people from multiple contexts, we like them more. So instead of defaulting to work questions, ask them about hobbies, charities they support, where they grew up, or even who their favorite superhero is. You’ll definitely have a more interesting conversation, and you might

3 Hard Truths You Need to Hear

Welcome to the realm of harsh truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question everything you've ever believed in.

The Hidden Costs of Happiness

We all want to know how to be happy, but we rarely consider the hidden costs of happiness. It is not free. And despite what Cover Girl or Tony Robbins or the Dalai Lama once told you, it’s not always easy breezy either.

Emotional Agility

Reprint: R1311L The prevailing wisdom says that negative thoughts and feelings have no place at the office. But that goes against basic biology. All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear. David and Congleton have worked with leaders in various industries to build a critical skill they call emotional agility, which enables people to approach their inner experiences in a mindful, values-driven, and productive way rather than buying into or trying to suppress them. The authors offer four practices (adapted from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT) designed to help readers do the same: Recognize your patterns. You have to realize that you’re stuck before you can initiate

The UX of UUIDs | Unkey

Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.

Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 - The GitHub Blog

GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0.

Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.

If you examine how human behavior has been shaped over time, you discover the power of environment to shape our habits and behavior.

Process Improvement: To Make Big Gains, Avoid Tiny Losses

Read this article to learn how to use a powerful, but often overlooked, process improvement method: improvement by subtraction.

Triple AAA Test

How to write an unit test with AAA pattern

Seni Menerima Umpan Balik

Bagian Pertama - Cara untuk mendapatkan lebih banyak umpan balik dan menjadi seseorang yang lebih mentorable

4 Unsexy One-Minute Habits That Save Me 30+ Hours Every Week

These four, if practiced together, are genuinely a lethal combination that will kill procrastination.

Price’s Law: Why Only A Few People Generate Half Of The Results

At my first sales job, I had about 25 colleagues who did the same work. After the first month, I noticed something peculiar.

The Mindset Of Unsuccessful People

“It’s good enough”

AHA Programming 💡

The dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA.

High Load vs. High Reps — Which is Better for Building Muscle?

Continuing the search for the ideal rep scheme

How to Make Things High-Quality

If there is one debate that is the endlessly circling “Star Wars versus Star Trek” of product development, it is what I refer to as “The…

I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful kids—here's the No. 1 parenting style they used

Parenting expert and author Margot Bisnow, who is a mother to two entrepreneurial sons, interviewed 70 families about how to raise happy, resilient and successful kids. Here's the surprising parenting style they all used.

Why our company switched from Golang + GraphQL to Typescript + tRPC + Prisma

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

If You Commit to Nothing, You'll Be Distracted By Everything

The "marathon monks" have incredible mental toughness. Read this article to learn about their 1,000 day journey and how to improve your mental toughness.

Warren Buffett's "2 List" Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities

Read this article to discover the strategy Warren Buffett uses to simplify his priorities and focus on the right things.

Creating a React Library for Consistent Data Visualization

At Shopify, we tell a lot of stories through data visualization. This is the driving force behind business decisions—not only for our merchants, but also for teams within Shopify. With more than 10,000 Shopify employees, though, it is only natural that different teams started using different tools to display data.

Mastering React’s Stable Values

In this post, Colin Gray, Principal Developer at Shopify, delivers a crash course in how to make sense of stable values in React and when they matter most.

Don’t think to write, write to think - Herbert Lui

This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process. There’s no shortage of great quotes on this topic, the implications are less clear: Writing is the planning process and the final product: You don’t design a final […]

Nowhere to Hide

Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.

Empty Your Brain to Quiet Your Mind

Find your “flow” in downtime activities

Focus Is Finite

How you spend your focus is how you spend your time

Mental models for learning Rust

Let us not beat around the bush: Rust is not easy to learn. I think it took me nearly 1 year of full-time programming in Rust to become proficient and no longer have to read the documentation every 5 lines of code. It's a looong journey but absolutely worth it.

Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be

I'm sold on Solid.

My Rust development workflow (after 2+ years)

Rust takes a loooot of time to compile, even with incremental compilation. It's not rare that a small change leads to 2 or 3 minutes of compilation to test the change, which frustrates a lot of new rustaceans. It's a deliberate choice made by the language designers to favor runtime

A Successful Life is an Infinite Game of Experiments

There are no failures in life: only lessons learned

Enough Thinking. Do The Work

Do more. Resist the urge to overthink

Error: Hydration failed because the initial UI does not match what was rendered on the server.

Take me to the fix Where I encountered the bug- export default function Nav() { const...

Why You Should Write Weekly 15-5s

15 minutes a week to document your work, increase visibility, and earn trust.

On The Importance of 15-5 Updates

We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to commit to it, and to share it with you.\r

How to Ask for Feedback That Will Actually Help You

It can be hard to draw out the truth.

Margin considered harmful

We should ban margin from our React components. Hear me out.

What is Adult Learning Theory?

Every trainer’s ambition is to make corporate learning as impactful and engaging as possible. But how? One method to master great training and course

Emotional Agility

Reprint: R1311L The prevailing wisdom says that negative thoughts and feelings have no place at the office. But that goes against basic biology. All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear. David and Congleton have worked with leaders in various industries to build a critical skill they call emotional agility, which enables people to approach their inner experiences in a mindful, values-driven, and productive way rather than buying into or trying to suppress them. The authors offer four practices (adapted from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT) designed to help readers do the same: Recognize your patterns. You have to realize that you’re stuck before you can initiate change. Label your thoughts and emotions. Labeling allows you to see them as transient sources of data that may or may not prove helpful. Accept them. Respond to your ideas and emotions with an open attitude, paying attention and letting yourself experience them. They may be signaling that something important is at stake. Act on your values. Is your response going to serve your organization in the long term and take you toward being the leader you most want to be?

How JavaScript Works behind the scenes?

An overview walk-through of all the core components that are involved in the execution of JavaScript code.

How to use React Context effectively

How to create and expose React Context providers and consumers

Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries | The GitHub Blog

You can now output and group custom Markdown content on the Actions run summary page.

Implementing Node.js URL parser in WebAssembly with Rust

Even though, this started as an experiment, implementing the URL parser in Rust using WebAssembly became the graduation project for my Masters in Computer Science at Fordham University. A brief backstory I've started my Master's program on September 2021 and moved to New York from Istanbul, Turkey after working in

Why Reproductions are Required

My thoughts on why reproductions are important in open source.

Curly's Law: Do One Thing

In Outliving the Great Variable Shortage, Tim Ottinger invokes Curly's Law: A variable should mean one thing, and one thing only. It should not mean one thing in one circumstance, and carry a different value from a different domain some other time. It should not mean two things

How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

Best practices for code review when you're the author.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, there’s always a programmer better than you

The Tech industry has some of the most arrogant people, especially in Software Development. Throughout your career as a software developer…

5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS

Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas anymore.

Chaos engineering helps DevOps cope with complexity

Interested in building more resilient applications? Solving problems before they cause incidents? Enter chaos engineering:

How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy? | The GitHub Blog

We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.

Conceptual Learning & Note-Taking

You enter math class for the first time this school year and the teacher asks you to open your notebooks to start the first topic. The…

Smile, You Don’t Own All The Problems in The World

A short reflection

Renato Athaydes

Decisions, decisions: Principles for making important choices in open source

When in doubt, maintainers should remember that they’re not in it alone. They have a community to help them make the right call. Read more about decision-making in open source:

Journey eFishery menggunakan nomad sebagai orchestrator(bukan kubernetes) part 1 — kenapa nomad ?

Sudah semua orang ketahui, kubernetes adalah container orchestrator yang paling umum di gunakan oleh perusahaan manapun. Kemudahan dalam…

Jenjang Karir di Divisi Teknologi Blibli.com

Pernah berpikir seperti ini?

Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You

One of the best ways to solve problems in life is to use the mental model of inversion. Read this article to learn how to become a better thinker today.

Giri Kuncoro: Choosing GO-JEK Over Silicon Valley

When Giri Kuncoro realized that his one line of code can change the life of million Indonesians, he knew it’s time to come home. After…

The 47 Hour Rule!

An Interesting Rule!

Fuck Your Feelings

Life is not about feeling awesome all the time.

Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

Read this article and learn what to do when chaos rules your life.

How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways

Learn how to think better and gain a mental edge.

Stop Wasting Time on the Details and Commit to the Fundamentals

Read this article to learn why mastering the fundamentals is more important than handling the details.

Kisah-Kisah Cinta yang Luput dalam Statistik Kematian COVID-19

Rasa duka orang-orang terkasih direnggut COVID-19 menyimpan kesunyian masing-masing.

Tulang Punggung Prof. Syafi'i Ma'arif

Retrospective: After One Year Working as a Frontend Engineer | YehezGun

Yehezkiel Gunawan's Article Post

3-2-1: The effect of criticism, a gift you can give yourself, and the ultimate luxury

3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “If an idea is true, criticism will not destroy it, but strengthen it.” ​II. “You need focus to become exceptional at anything. Massive amounts of time and energy are wasted optimizing things that should be left undone. You have to be great at saying no.” III. “A gift you can […]

Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript

On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.

Reading Source Code: React-Query

When I’m exploring an unfamiliar codebase I start with one of its public APIs. In this case, it was , arguably the most widely used React-Query function. As I…

First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself

Read this article to learn how brilliant minds like Elon Musk use first principles thinking to solve difficult problems and develop innovative solutions.

Mental Models: Learn How to Think Better and Gain a Mental Edge

The best ones mental models apply broadly to life and can help you understand the world. Read this list and learn the most important mental models.

3-2-1: Prioritization, making the most of what you have, and reading as a form of travel

3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “In the long-run, prioritization beats efficiency.” ​II. “When researching strategies, emphasize patterns over stories. One person succeeding means nothing. 100 people succeeding is a signal. When explaining strategies, emphasize stories over patterns. People forget numbers and charts. Everyone remembers a great story.” III. “When determining the size or complexity of […]

‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens

Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For one 13-year-old, the despair was almost too much to take.

You Don’t Need A UI Framework — Smashing Magazine

Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. Let’s talk about it.

How to Break Up Gracefully

How to break up with some one gracefully and respectfully. Learn the 10 fundamental principles to ending and recovering from your past relationship.

When to Break Up With Someone and When to Stick It Out

It’s hard to know when to break up with someone. Are you just going through a rough patch, or is your relationship a flaming bag of dog sh*t? Let's find out.

Orchestration and choreography

How do microservices collaborate and interact with each other? There are two ways: orchestration and choreography The diagram below illustrates the collaboration of microservices. Choreography is like having a choreographer set all the rules. Then the dancers on stage (the microservices) interact according to them. Service choreography describes this exchange of messages and the rules by which the microservices interact.

How to design a secure web API access for your website?

How to design secure web API access for your website? When we open web API access to users, we need to make sure each API call is authenticated. This means the user must be who they claim to be. In this post, we explore two common ways: 1. Token based authentication

3-2-1: How to change someone's mind, the balance between justice and compassion, and looking foolish

3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was the wrong choice. The world is full of probabilities, not certainties. Find a game where the probabilities favor you and keep taking shots.” ​II. “If you know where you want to go in life, people tend to help or get out […]

Successful Leaders Always Set Clear Expectations

As leaders we’re here to set vision, to lead our people to where we want to be; where all the impact has been made, and where, we’ve…

Love is Not Enough

Relationships need more than love. Here's why.

How to learn things fast without going crazy

As people who work in the tech industry, we often need to learn new technologies for our work. With time I found myself struggling with the…

Why setting clear expectations is important and how to do it

This blog is all about the art of setting clear expectations and how to do it.

No, You Can't Make a Person Change

How to help a person without making them change (because that never works!).

Why Smart People Are Stupid

Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

F**k You" Money

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

How writing can help you to think clearly and be more articulate (with example)

Why writing is important habit for designers and product managers

You Can’t Change Anyone — You Can Only Make Them Think

But you can inspire and encourage change

3-2-1: Playing to your strengths, cultivating a beginner's mindset, and the power of hope

3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “In school, you are graded on every test—even if it's your weakest subject. In life, you can choose the tests you take—even if they always play to your strengths. Maintain a baseline so your weak areas don't hold you back, but design your life so you are graded on your […]

How to Mentally Prepare for a Difficult Conversation

It’s OK to vent ahead of time.

Critical Reading & Reading Strategies | SkillsYouNeed

Critical reading is a way to advance your understanding - it's fundamental to higher learning. Develop a reading strategy and boost your learning potential.

If You Are Reading to Acquire Knowledge, Learn to Read Analytically

Analytical reading improves critical thinking

We Are Not Fighting. We Are Having a Hard Conversation.

Five life lessons I learned from my 7-year-old. Perspective is everything.

“I Know That I Know Nothing” is True Wisdom

The illusion of knowledge can sabotage your success

Dialogue

If memory makes you sane, then quickly open your gallery and find the best memory you have.

How Replaceable We Are

Everyone has their own time in our life. No one will forever be by our side except ourselves. We who accompany until death. Others will…

Frontend Infrastructure

Empowering product teams with the foundational frontend ecosystem and reliable, performant, and developer-friendly tools to efficiently build great user experiences

A Mental Model to think in TypeScript

Types can be hard and this long-format essay tries to give a way of thinking about types and TypeScript

I Will NEVER Work For Another Startup Again

In November of 2021, I was approached by the CEO of a local startup and asked if I would take over the role of Digital Marketing Manager…

You Have the Responsibility, But Do You Have the Authority?

Managers and workers alike will find an extra layer of job security if they grasp two essential work concepts: responsibility and…

5 Powerful Study Tips From Richard Feynman

“Study hard what interests you the most.”

Learn When to Say No

And how to say yes

The Only Way Is Forward

We are lost every once in a while

How HashiCorp Works

A website dedicated to making our implicit practices explicit.

Are You Really Listening?

Senior leaders can become insulated from early signs of danger and opportunity. Here’s how to overcome that.

Niklaus.README - Niklaus Gerber

This document is a user guide on me and how I work. It captures my guiding values and how I work as a human. It will hopefully help you understand me better and allow us to work together in a more meaningful way.

How to Rands

Hi, welcome to the team. I'm so glad you are here at $COMPANY. It's going to take a solid quarter to figure this place out. I understand the importance of first impressions, and I know you want to get a check in the win column, but this is a complex place full of equally complex humans. Take your t

How I work and like to work with you

A user guide for David Bauer. About this document If you start working with a new person, wouldn’t it be nice if you had some sort of user guide that gives you a basic understanding of how to work with them? This document is exactly that. It captures my guiding principles, how I work as […]

Growing Empathy for The Autistic Experience

Try these exercises to gain a better understanding of the autistic experience

Teachers Are Done. No, Really.

I've been asked often why teachers are fleeing the classroom and while I can't speak for all teachers, many of our reasons appear to be…

Don't Be Too Hard on Yourself

Whether you are working or taking a break, be mindful of yourself. You are doing it for yourself.

How I learnt to speak fluent English in no time?

Which you can do too to learn any language

What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means

Debunking three common misconceptions.

Dilema ASN: jadi kambing hitam, mesin suara, dan korban netralitas politikus toksik jelang pemilu 2024

Sebagai mesin suara, ASN bukan hanya sekedar dihimbau untuk memilih, melainkan dirayu dengan hadiah tertentu, bahkan tidak sedikit dari mereka yang diancam.

Pemeringkatan kampus: praktik imperialisme budaya yang menjebak perguruan tinggi dalam perlombaan kosong

Kita sering mendengar dan membaca bagaimana kampus di Indonesia saling perang klaim tentang capaian pemeringkatan mereka. Mentalitas ini memiliki banyak masalah.

What I Value As a Leader, Part 1 — candor.

This article is one part of a series on my leadership values, which form the basis of my leadership blueprint, a tool that I use to…

Transforming a Hero Culture

A “hero culture” is an organization, or a functional area of the organization, that is run by a group of hard-working, highly talented “heroes” on sheer strength, will and knowledge.

How to Ask Great Questions

Most leaders need to get better at it.

Menyerahkan Anak-Anak kepada Dunia

Saat membaca celoteh Mendikbud Muhadjir Effendy soal perlunya anak-anak sekolah seharian, saya teringat kalimat Neil Postman: ’’Jangan kau cabut anakmu dari dunianya, karena kelak kau akan temukan...

Saya Menggurui Maka Saya ke Surga*

Jumlah guru di Indonesia jauh lebih sedikit dibandingkan jumlah orang yang menggurui. Andai saja bakat terpendam sebagai guru itu bisa disalurkan dengan tepat, niscaya tak akan ada sekolah di...

Half Staffed is Unstaffed

The alternative to ruthless prioritization is failure

Effective Managers Go to War With Problem Priorities

I prayed at an altar of certain words as a manager because they made such a huge difference in my career. Priority was one of those words.

Successful Managers Know That Luck Goes With Effort

Experienced managers learn that success is a combination of luck and effort. Arrogant and inexperienced managers may think any success is…

Leading When The Fog Descends (Managing Uncertainty)

Leading When Fogged In

Sienna Mae Gomez: Reflections from an 18-Year Old Me

I haven’t even been 18 a whole week yet but the decisions I’ve had to make as a new adult are challenging me in ways that make me wish I…

Leaving Room to Say Things Suck — Leadership Lessons from “Ted Lasso”

A major sign of trust, comfortability, and vulnerability is for someone you lead to be able to say something sucks.

To Achieve Big Goals, Start with Small Habits

Begin with these five steps.

Andragogy — The Adult Learning Difference

This article is available as an audio podcast created using AWS Polly.

Communication is The Job

We cannot help but communicate and our failure to embrace that reality can leave our teams in a state of information insecurity. Instead, we need to own our responsibility and be proactive.

Menilai Orang Lain adalah Alat Merapuhkan Diri

Bagaimanapun kita berusaha menghindar, menilai orang lain akan tetap menemukan tempat dalam pikiran kita, tetapi hati-hati, dia merapuhkan.

Speak in Stories

Studies have shown that emotion is critical to memory. Given two stories with the same facts, we remember the more emotionally evocative story far longer. One thing that is amazing is that memory is not zero sum. If we heard ten good stories today we could remember them all better than we would remember even one list of facts.

Mutual Knowledge

Mutual Knowledge is perhaps the most powerful concept I have come across to describe what is required for successful collaboration.

Listening is The Job

The only way to ensure success is to take responsibility for getting the information you need.

What makes life hard for an overthinking person?

Have you ever had a situation when you think about a decision over million times in your head? If yes, then you are an overthinker…

You Don’t Need To Be Qualified To Start

Everybody starts as an impostor.

how are you?

something else.

10 Hard Truths I Learned by 28

That I Wish I Knew Sooner

Problem Solving Case Study — Uber

Problem Statement: You are the PM of Uber. The Appstore / Playstore rating dropped from 4.5 to 3.8 in the last two weeks. Find the root…

How to Win An Argument

Winning an argument is about being right, and if you are confident about being right you shouldn't fear being proven so.

Transparent Process

It is not enough to do everything right, people need to understand the process by which results were acheived to trust they are repeatable

Stop Chasing, Start Attracting

The fundamental difference between stuggle and flow

Introverted Managers Can Lead Without Gift of Gab

How can an introverted manager be an effective leader? The thought seems contradictory because great managers are great talkers, right?

Stop saying "Hi" and waiting for a response — Vishnu's Pages

Say why you are contacting them right away!

Design How Your Team Thinks

You need different mental models at different times.

Sit With Your Silence

There’s something very natural about sitting in silence. It’s a return to a more  natural state of being.

The False Theory of Meritocracy

One of the triumphs of the Industrial Era was our realization that organizations didn’t have to be ruled according to capricious traits like power, nepotism, grace, and favor. We could impose a rational order on our businesses — a logically ordered hierarchy of roles and responsibilities, protected by inviolable rules, guided by the realities of […]

Pahlawan Tak Diperlukan di Masa Pandemi

Selain mendatangkan banyak kematian secara singkat, perang dan pandemi juga sama-sama kerap menghidupkan imaji tentang (ke)pahlawan(an). Kisah para dokter dan perawat yang wafat karena terpapar...

Biggest Fear

The biggest fear of every executive I know is that there is a systematic error in the way their team is running and they do not know about it

The Streetlight Effect

Motivated thinking can cause us to pursue improbable paths

Move Fast, Break Things Explained

You keep on using that word, it does not mean what you think it means

Explain Like I'm Five

Teaching is the best way to learn. If you can't explain something simply, then you don't understand it.

10 Productivity Habits (I Learned The Hard Way)

Productivity is the name of the game. It doesn’t matter how much experience we have, we always want to be more productive and stay ahead of…

5 Simple Habits of Amazing Listeners

How to tune in and truly connect.

What If GaryVee Was Right?

You can ‘close your eyes until you’re 29.’

Never Get Out of Bed Before Noon

The contrarian wisdom of Charles Bukowski

“I’m Not Good Enough” Is a Lie You Tell Yourself That Could Ruin Your Future

Today you are enough, tomorrow you will be enough

The Things You Can Do Only When You Slow Down in a Busy World

Long-term exposure to stressful events and activities can lead to serious health problems

11 Simple Ways to Show Someone You Care

A little altruism can go a long way

Happiness Comes From Learning, Not Achievement

On learning from new habits and from holding still

Berpikir Positif Bisa Membawa Kita ke Arah yang Salah

Berpikir positif atau berpikir negatif? Kita selalu condong untuk memilih yang pertama. Faktanya, memilih satu hal saja adalah kesalahan.

Sunk Cost Fallacy: Ketika Masa Lalu Memperburuk Keputusanmu

Sunk cost fallacy adalah ketika masa lalu memperburuk keputusan kita. Mari belajar dari Nokia tentang bagaiamana pengaruh sunk cost fallacy.

Don’t Just Have a To-Do List — Timebox It

The only thing worse than having a long to-do list is not knowing how you’re going to get everything done. Timeboxing can help: It’s a way of converting your to-do list into blocks of time on your calendar, so you have a plan for what to do and when. Start by looking at your to-do […]

Why You Should Stop Trying to Fix Yourself

Self-improvement isn’t motivating. Self-acceptance is.

5 Terms to Know Before Setting a New Goal

Use these methods to set thoughtful goals and reach them.

Beda Korelasi dan Kausalitas, Agar Tak Salah Ambil Kesimpulan

Jangan kecampur.

Why eating ice cream is linked to shark attacks

Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by "correlation does not imply causation.

The Anatomy of an Amazon 6-pager

A deep dive into writing detailed planning docs from one of the most successful companies in the world

Do You Feel Guilty All the Time?

Research shows guilt impacts perfectionists the most.

Arguments

Arguments fill the space available. It is important to set boundaries.

Berlian Dalam Jebakan Perasaan Bosan

Mencari pelarian berkualitas

Mengakui Ketidaktahuan Untuk Menerima Kenyataan

Tidak ada yang baik atau buruk dalam kenyataan hidup

Dopamine.

In a world drowning in dopamine, focus is a powerful competitive advantage.

Everything I Know About Style Guides, Design Systems, and Component Libraries – Lee Robinson

A deep-dive on everything I've learned in the past year building style guides, design systems, component libraries, and their best practices.

The first rule of prioritization: No snacking

If your startup is going to survive you need to avoid low-impact work. Taking a cue from Hunter Walk here's how we prioritize work at Intercom.

Work on what matters

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.

Being visible.

Bert Fan’s best advice for those trying to reach a Staff-plus role was, “often reaching Staff is a combination of luck, timing, and work.”

Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer

Writing is an increasingly important skill for engineering leaders. Indeed, poor writing can hamper career progression, above a certain level. Tactics for more clear, more frequent and more confident writing. I’ve observed that my writing is not up to par with my peers. How can I improve my professional

Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.

A step-by-step guide to pare down your to-do list.