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David Tate

blog.davidtate.org

Remote Work, Engineering Management, Software Development, Personal Growth

Engineering management / careersEssays / personalSoftware / engineering practice

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129 from 17 Aug 2009 to 1 Oct 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. Reading in 2026
  2. 15 Years of Writing

2025 1

  1. Reading in 2025

2024 3

  1. Writing in 2024
  2. Reading in 2024
  3. Reading in 2023

2023 1

  1. Reading in 2022

2021 8

  1. I Can't Let My Team Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons
  2. Remote Work is a return to something very old
  3. The Game
  4. Shop Talk: A new version of the technical interview
  5. Why the Hell Did you Write a Book in 2021
  6. How to Spend 10 years to write One ^@#$ Book
  7. Remote-ish
  8. Navigating Remote Work :: Now Available

2020 14

  1. Systems Over Resolutions
  2. Good books in 2020
  3. Remote Work and Wealth
  4. Hiring Programmers
  5. A prescription for breathing
  6. Accidental Practice: Careful what you do often
  7. Your Users Don't Always Tell You About Problems
  8. Remote Work has Exposed Us All
  9. Do It Yourself Technology MBA
  10. Product Development and Learning
  11. Beginner's guide to working from home
  12. Remote Work Arrogance
  13. An Easy Way to Rid Yourself of Envy
  14. Clear and Present Leadership

2019 11

  1. Leaders can be Bullies, but Shouldn't
  2. Dark Side of Tech
  3. How to Read More
  4. The Importance of Work Culture
  5. Product Engineer
  6. Reading more than one book at a time?
  7. Obvious but Very Bad Remote Work Advice
  8. The Power of Work Culture
  9. Guard Your Identity
  10. Twenty Minute Headstart: Beat Procrastination
  11. Developers Need to Understand the Business

2018 1

  1. A New Definition of Work Ethic

2017 5

  1. Learning from a vlog
  2. Recent Items In Other Places
  3. Getting Unstuck when working alone
  4. Remote Workers might appear casual, but we are serious
  5. Remote Work is not a Perk

2016 25

  1. Silver lining
  2. Reflection Frameworks
  3. Play to Your Strength, Sometimes
  4. Personal Pre-mortems
  5. We Can't Let People Work from Home Because of Something Stupid
  6. Why I Hate Productivity Blog Posts
  7. Remote Work Terminology
  8. How to Read 100 Books in One Year
  9. You Get No Credit for Talking
  10. Be a Digital Adult
  11. Help with the Pomodoro Technique
  12. Feedback on the Kindle Product
  13. Work from Home: An Anniversary
  14. The False Dream of a Clear Path
  15. Bring Your Own Team
  16. MVP: Minimum Viable Personality
  17. 5-Minute Journal review
  18. Chaos-Proof Your Marriage with Monkeys
  19. Halfway to Self-Help
  20. How to Generate Ideas for your Blog
  21. Lessons on Hiring and Networking
  22. Finding Balance
  23. Personal Retreats
  24. What I Learned from Briefly Sharing an Office with Steve Jobs
  25. Obsession with Tools Means You Aren't Working

2015 13

  1. This Year I Read 88 Books And Wrote 1
  2. Yeah, sure
  3. Close to the Machine
  4. You Need a Don't Do List
  5. Fake Work
  6. Reductio ad absurdum of LinkedIn endorsements
  7. Resume of the Future
  8. Review of Ghost of my Father By Scott Berkun
  9. Beginner's Guide to Working from Home
  10. How remote work might change the world
  11. My daughter designed my perfect home office in Minecraft
  12. Staying Productive: Take Real Breaks and Keep away from Ace of Base
  13. Sacred Space: Building the Energy of your Home Office

2014 3

  1. Docked and Unplugged
  2. Work Life Harmony & Resistance
  3. What You Need to Work from Home

2013 7

  1. Tips on how to manage boundaries when working from home
  2. Tribal SQL
  3. Benefits of Supporting Remote Work
  4. How to function on little sleep
  5. Remote Workers have a default culture of getting things done
  6. Companies that support remote work win against those that don't
  7. Super-productivity is deeply personal

2012 5

  1. Get Weirder
  2. How to improve your creativity
  3. You *will* lose money working at a startup - why do it?
  4. Secret Developer Acronyms
  5. Write More This Year

2011 20

  1. The Dangerous Effects of Reading
  2. 5 minute book review: The Art of SQL
  3. Managing your Significant Other when working from home
  4. How to convince your employer to let you keep working from home
  5. 5 minute book review: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
  6. How to deal with robots and get your poodle a job
  7. A System for Analyzing Systems [Part 2]
  8. A System for Analyzing Systems [Part 1]
  9. Glorious Hack #97: Wrapping regular ViewResults as JSON for rich client-side processing
  10. The Three Laws of Robotics (for tech recruiters)
  11. Vetting specialized developer experience
  12. Barista
  13. Poem
  14. insomnia
  15. Proper reentry for developers
  16. How to work from home without going insane (purple monkey dishwasher)
  17. Obstacles adults face in creating
  18. Working at a startup is like riding a bike (off a cliff)
  19. Computer Science Terms from Lunch
  20. Questions to ask in an interview

2010 6

  1. Out of space error when moving tempdb
  2. How to complain
  3. Fixing problems Part 1: Introduction and Attitude Adjustment
  4. Exception (Mis)Handling
  5. Key considerations for your next development job
  6. Complexity

2009 4

  1. Triggers Part 3: FAQ and FOP Continued
  2. Triggers Part 2: Facts and Frequently-Occuring-Problems (FOP)
  3. Triggers Part 1: Introduction to madness, plus whores
  4. Running SQL cross servers