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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Getting better by doing less.
I just got back from a business conference where I did something unusual for me: I barely took notes.
Most conferences bury you in information. You fly home with dozens of p...
Ex-Amazon VP on What Actually Gets You Promoted | Ethan Evans
Corporate politics, managing up, and why "your work speaks for itself" is bad advice
Ethan Evans, a former Amazon VP who helped build Prime Video and Twitch, sits down with Steve to make the case that ignoring office politics doesn't make...
Get Up to Speed Unbelievably Fast: A Practical Guide to Rapid Onboarding
This is the last of the three pieces I pulled from the archive for this trip. Normal service resumes next week, once I’m back. This one is a reader favorite on getting up to speed fast in a new role.
You’re eager to make an immediate impac...
The Art of Dealing with Ambiguity
Note: I’m still on the road with the family, so here is week two of the archive favorites I lined up before I left. This one is on dealing with ambiguity, and it is one I come back to often myself.
I remember a pivotal moment early in...
I Coached a Security Engineer Through His Failed Meta Interview (Live)
The Technical Round Is the Easy Part. Here's What Actually Loses the Offer.
Muhan is an application security engineer who aced the technical round at Meta but walked out of the behavioral interview not knowing what went wrong. He had stori...
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Former Amazon VP, LinkedIn Top Voice, now Teaching Leaders to become True Executives
Practical field notes on agentic engineering, solo building, and what the frontier of software development looks like. Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft, Atlassian.
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