Greatest Hits

My most impactful published work. I primarily write about:

1. Wetware: Work Culture, Careers, Engineering Excellence

2. Software: SQL, Ruby, and other programming things

3. Slice of Life: Coffee, Finance, etc.

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🧘🏼‍♂️Work Culture, Careers, Engineering Excellence

1. Careers and getting unstuck:

   1. The antidote to “I am feeling stuck in my career.”

2. ESOPs Fables:

   1. Part 1, the numerical worth of your ESOPs.

   2. Part 2, the quality of your ESOP grant.

3. The Well-Rounded Engineer: Slides. A blueprint for software engineers to improve their skills and build solid foundational knowledge.

4. Road To Continuous Deployments: Slides, Video. Engineering Excellence through Continuous Delivery.

5. Principles of Project Management Flow: Slides and Video. This is my thesis on managing projects effectively for software teams of all sizes.

6. Debunking Falsehoods about Async Communications: Video. A deep talk about common antipatterns in remote and asynchronous working. One example: Remote does not automatically mean async.

7. Deep Work: Slides, Video. This talk was a big hit at RubyConf India 2019, and it included experiments and advice about deep work in one slide deck.

8. A highly successful job post.

9. Catchphrases and Workplace Wisdom, a Twitter thread.

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👨🏼‍💻 SQL

1. Demystifying SQL 😶‍🌫️

2. Full-Text Search using PostgreSQL 🔎

3. Fearless Joins! ┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻

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🍱 Slice of Life

1. Use the French Press, Luke! ☕

2. Behavioral Science and the Art of Spending Less 💳

3. Basic Financial Hygiene 🩺

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See you around! 🙌🏼