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Max Stoiber's Essays

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A few things about Max Stoiber, and a few things he believes.

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32 from 7 Feb 2018 to 23 Jul 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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2026 3

  1. Build something to disagree with
  2. Save polish for where it matters
  3. How I get things done

2025 4

  1. How I run gratitude circles
  2. How to present to executives
  3. Message me whenever
  4. How I manage my todos as a CEO

2024 19

  1. How to run recurring virtual meetings efficiently
  2. How to have great taste
  3. How to be great at storytelling
  4. How we make brainstorming work
  5. How do you invent the future?
  6. Being unreasonably responsive has made my projects more successful
  7. Why I'm vigorous about giving feedback
  8. How to ship faster
  9. How to be better at making decisions
  10. How I tend to my digital garden
  11. David Cain: Do Quests, Not Goals
  12. Deliberate practice beats every other form of training, even via transfer learning
  13. How we foster deeper connections in our remote team
  14. Why I don't compliment people for their talent
  15. How can you slow down life? (which is perceptually half over by 23)
  16. 1:1s are for personal connection, not project updates
  17. Developer tools startups are playing on hard mode
  18. Developer tools are different than tools for any other profession
  19. You probably don't need GraphQL

2020 3

  1. Why I Love Tailwind
  2. Margin considered harmful
  3. I am joining Gatsby

2019 2

  1. Why I Write CSS in JavaScript
  2. Tech Choices I Regret at Spectrum

2018 1

  1. Streaming Server-Side Rendering and Caching