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by josephmosby 3mo ago
(not the author, but here's how I think about it) Assuming that you're not a commodity product, it all kinda nets out in the end. If you have a competitive market, you have proof that people want your product at a good price, else
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by josephmosby 3mo ago
Wholeheartedly agree. Personas are useful for developing a general character that you can refer to. But you still have to be able to say "Alice Robertson, who is a demand-gen marketer at $CUSTOMER, is a prime example of this persona an
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by josephmosby 2y ago
I have used Modernist Cuisine at Home for years. The techniques are a little more approachable for the home chef, and the results are A+. And if science-infused cooking is your jam, Kenji Lopez-Alt is another great read. https://
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by josephmosby 2y ago
Spiritually, there is a dichotomy, but it is (as most things) perhaps more nuanced than you've laid out here. This dichotomy is also commonly referred to as "top-down vs bottom-up" or "strategic vs tactical" or &quo
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by josephmosby 2y ago
There are a couple of buried pieces in here. The first two examples are founders who moved from Europe to San Francisco. Given the entrepreneurial ecosystem in most mid-to-large U.S. cities and more favorable ways of working, I would imagin
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by josephmosby 2y ago
This has happened before. From 2000-2004, this was the world. Companies were going out of business or cutting headcount to the bone, and the folks with 7+ years of experience were getting picked up (often at a discount). If you started your
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by josephmosby 2y ago
For early stage growth companies (say <100 employees), I think in-person will come back unless you're planning to take a massive pay cut. Middle stage (anywhere from 100 to 1000 employees), I think there's a lot of space for re
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by josephmosby 2y ago
+1 to statsd. We've moved from SignalFX to Chronosphere, all using statsd and without having to change any of our application metrics-gathering code.
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by josephmosby 3y ago
At best, the primary reasons companies do unlimited PTO is that it's just not worth it to invest in official rules and some sort of tracking system. Just say "take what you need" and move on. But at worst, companies don'
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by josephmosby 3y ago
We have an alternative path that works for us: get a terrible, ugly, but functional version of the feature up as quickly as possible. Preferably, the uglier the better. Skip the tests for now. Put it behind a feature flag or some other way
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The simple common characteristics of great engineering managers(josephmosby.com)
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Good management is measured in years(josephmosby.com)
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by josephmosby 4y ago
As a suggestion for finding mentors, maybe just track down some senior software engineers at OpenAI and the like and drop them a cold email explaining that you're curious and would love some time to chat about how <some new tool the
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by josephmosby 4y ago
The word "soccer" started in England as a slang of "association," which became "assocc" and then "soccer." Americans learned the word from the English. It may also surprise you to learn that water clo
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by josephmosby 4y ago
Reading up on the stuff that's actually coming out of the can, it doesn't look like there are particles that are small enough to actually aerosolize into the air. They tout wool and mohair as candidate things that can be sprayed.
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by josephmosby 4y ago
> his fantastic universe is pervaded by an overwhelming force of goodness that seeks to bring events to their right conclusion through divine providence. That is, in fact, explicitly stated in The Silmarillion. "Then Ilúvatar (the G
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by josephmosby 5y ago
IANAL. It is not an absolute requirement. It is often preferred from EU-based customers to store their data in EU-based data centers because then that data is subject to EU law, which can make things easier for your customers with their own
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by josephmosby 5y ago
I've got a friend who made the transition. Ultimately, he went to law school because he didn't feel there was career growth as just a patent agent... you've got to be a full-on attorney if you want growth in that marketplace.
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by josephmosby 5y ago
Some of the other answers here appear to be "just don't do it," which I don't think is helpful. I also struggle with the Joneses. For me, it helps to hold in my mind what the Joneses have to do in order to be the Joneses
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by josephmosby 5y ago
I worked alongside Gravwell on a volunteer effort at a conference, and will attest that they're phenomenal folks!
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by josephmosby 5y ago
I've seen $600/hour rates for individual engineering work on mission-critical systems or high-revenue systems. There are two massive factors impacting rates: sophistication of the buyer, and sophistication of the contractor. I use
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by josephmosby 5y ago
Recharge Payments | Senior Engineers (Python, Ruby, frontend, data, etc.), Principal Engineer, various EM | full Remote US Recharge is hiring several roles in our engineering team! We're looking for engineers supporting our underlying
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by josephmosby 5y ago
ReCharge Payments | Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services | Remote US | Full-Time ReCharge is a software-as-a-service platform that manages subscription payments and customer management for some of the largest e-commerce brands in the
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by josephmosby 5y ago
No. USPS still has to stop by all of the houses anyway to pick up mail as well. So junk mail subsidizes the cost of going to all of those remote homes.
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by josephmosby 5y ago
I have absolutely zero connection here, but saw elsewhere that Specialized (the bicycle company) is hiring for a lot of software engineering positions in Boulder, CO that would hit your marks.
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by josephmosby 5y ago
If you accept these postulates as true: * on a long enough time horizon, companies must either adapt to their environment by changing their product, or they must cease to exist. * a changing product means changing the abilities required to
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by josephmosby 5y ago
I have worked at companies where there was an expectation that you sign on at 9:00AM and leave at 9:00PM. And I have worked at some where my boss regularly took us out for burgers and beers for lunch on Friday if the weather was nice and th
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by josephmosby 5y ago
I think the first step - independent of company goals - is to know yourself and your own goals. Maybe your goal is "make more money." Maybe your goal is "take a class in art history, because I'm curious about it." M
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by josephmosby 5y ago
Engineering manager here. I have recently set goals for people. The best-case scenario is to align personal career growth goals (e.g., senior engineer wants to be a staff engineer, or engineer wants a big raise) with company objectives. Com
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by josephmosby 6y ago
Project managers != engineering managers. Project management is a pretty saturated field, you are correct. Engineering team management is considerably less saturated and EMs are just as in-demand as ICs. However, much of the value of a good

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