An ex-Amazon Principal Software Engineer with nearly 20 years of experiences shares how to apply systems thinking to engineer a more effective and intentional life.
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Worth Repeating: The Art of Showing Up
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Worth Repeating is where I bring back older pieces that hold up. I wrote this one last July, and I’ve needed the reminder many times since.
When we’re waiting in line or for a file to download, what do...
Worth Repeating: How I Have Time For Everything
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Worth Repeating: a piece from the archive, cleaned up and sent back out. This one first ran in August 2025.
People ask me all the time, “How do you have time for everything?”
It’s a fair question. Two y...
Worth Repeating: Are You Accumulating Career Debt?
Short-term comfort feels good, but building long-term equity feels better.
This is the first entry in a series I’m calling Worth Repeating. The idea behind the series is simple: most of what holds us back are things we already know. We don...
Everything Important Is Optional Until It Isn't
A list of things that are never urgent, and what it costs when you treat them that way
One morning, my pager went off at 2:14. (This was back when Amazon forced us to have physical pagers like the cool kids in the 90s.) It made a harsh and...
The Mistakes You Can't Take Back
Why do one-way door decisions feel so easy to walk through?
In his 2015 letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos split decisions into two kinds. Some are one-way doors. Once you walk through them, you can’t get back to where you were, so those d...
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I Help Tech Professionals Level Up Fast @alifeengineered | YouTuber | Productivity Junkie | ex-Principal Engineer at Amazon
Sr. Product and Growth Director (Patreon, Noom, and Udacity). Leadership job searches, negotiations, and tech job market.
Former Amazon VP, sharing how I succeeded so that you can too. Outperform, out-compete, and still get time off for yourself.
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