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2026 1

  1. You should try contra dancing

2025 3

  1. Impact, agency, and taste
  2. Advice for time management as a manager
  3. How I've run major projects

2024 3

  1. Categories of leadership on technical teams
  2. Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly
  3. How I build and run behavioral interviews

2023 2

  1. Some mistakes I made as a new manager
  2. Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic

2022 5

  1. Why and how to write things on the Internet
  2. Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
  3. Be less scared of overconfidence
  4. 10x (engineer, context) pairs
  5. Searching for outliers

2021 1

  1. What I’ve been doing instead of writing

2020 18

  1. My favorite essays of life advice
  2. To listen well, get curious
  3. In defense of blub studies
  4. How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
  5. Tools for keeping focused
  6. Attention is your scarcest resource
  7. Be impatient
  8. Essays on programming I think about a lot
  9. What should we do about network-effect monopolies?
  10. My weekly review habit
  11. DIY server-only analytics with almost no code
  12. Wireless is a trap
  13. No one can teach you to have conviction
  14. College advice for people who are exactly like me
  15. Stop your video calls from stuttering
  16. Massachusetts should shut down immediately
  17. Boston should begin aggressive coronavirus mitigation
  18. You don’t need to work on hard problems

2019 7

  1. The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
  2. Grad school is worse for public health than STDs
  3. Your room can be as bright as the outdoors
  4. Why and how to start a startup serving emerging markets
  5. Why Nations Fail and the long-termist view of global poverty
  6. A checklist for stock option offers
  7. Why are gradual static types so great?

2015 1

  1. Autocomplete as an interface

2014 2

  1. Why squared error?
  2. Plants, continued fractions, and the golden ratio