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Growth at Anthropic. Previously Growth Engineering leader at MasterClass and Opendoor.

Engineering management / careersSoftware / engineering practice

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46 from 1 Jul 2012 to 25 Mar 2025
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now and then
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2025 1

  1. Why Growth Engineering Practices Don’t Transfer to Product Engineering

2024 6

  1. A Year of Remote Async
  2. The 4 Kinds of Software Engineers you’ll find at a startup
  3. How Rajiv Desai Scaled Growth Engineering at Dropbox
  4. Lessons Learned teaching Growth Engineering at Reforge
  5. When is it time to replace Landing Page Builder?
  6. Why I’m teaching Growth Engineering at Reforge

2023 10

  1. 2023: A Year in Review
  2. Should this be an A/B Test?
  3. How to Build a Growth Engineering team that Wins
  4. Article Stat Sig on a Budget No traffic, no problem! Updating your setup so you can keep experimenting. Read Article
  5. There’s no such thing as Organic Traffic
  6. Unshackling Marketing from Engineering Bottlenecks: A Primer
  7. Introducing: A Retirement Program for Technical Co-Founders
  8. Avoid Premature Optimization: Growth Advice for Early Stage Founders
  9. The Alexey Test: 11 steps to better Growth Engineering
  10. Why Core Product Engineers can’t Hack it on Growth

2021 2

  1. Hamtips, or why I still run the Technical Phone Screen as the Hiring Manager
  2. A toolset for tackling technical debt

2020 4

  1. Technical Interview Superforcasters
  2. Article Front-end Analytics Gotchas "The slower your website, the better it converts" and other lies your front-end analytics will tell you. Read Article
  3. Lessons Learned: Giving Feedback as an Engineering Manager
  4. Working Remotely Crossed the Chasm on May 12, 2020

2017 3

  1. Test Driven Interviewing
  2. Confessions of a Deadbeat Open Source Maintainer
  3. Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: 2016 in review

2016 1

  1. Dependonate: Donate to your dependencies

2015 2

  1. Flystein saved me over 1000 dollars on flight costs and all they got was this blog post
  2. Hackathon - A retrospective - a talk

2014 3

  1. Did I say Estonia? I meant Costa Rica
  2. When visas turn into pumpkins
  3. Hackonomics 101

2013 5

  1. Houston Admin Talk at Meteor Devshop 10
  2. The last 10 months
  3. Migrating Divvy configurations between computers
  4. The Art of Rejection
  5. Start-ups are hard: Lessons learned in 2012

2012 9

  1. Hackathon Hacks for Organizers
  2. How PennApps Labs Came to Be
  3. FundersClub: getting Crowdfunding right
  4. Being safe with mongodb
  5. Sidecar and Digital Reputation Systems
  6. My $370 Adjustable Sit-Stand Desk Setup
  7. Weekend Hack: A Markov Baby Name Generator
  8. Non-Technical Hiring, Lessons Learned
  9. Migrating from Posterous to Jekyll on GitHub Pages