Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦

co-founder engineering manager at LinkedIn. tweeting about leadership in tech, startups, productivity

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

Your first day as a new engineering manager. How to make onboarding to a new team or a company less stressful. [thread 👇] or you can read more here 👉
https://t.co/KHYCwCXA9N

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

@kenwheeler Jiu-Jitsu mats. It's a no-brainer. It was one of the best things I did in my house.

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One of the all-time greatest interviews.

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[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

Dealing with complexity is like crossing a river by feeling the stones (originally 摸着石头过河)

There is unfamiliar territory, fast flow with murky waters. You may not know the next step until your foot is firmly on the ground. Probe and iterate.

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

The structure is necessary, but sometimes it can be a mental blocker. Doing something small is better than overthinking, time commitment, achieving goals.

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

I wonder if removing constraints of tracking and structure can increase productivity. I'm taking more notes with @RoamResearch, I don't think about structure. What if I apply the same to exercising, writing, reading? Just do it.

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

@amasad Define your requirements, 80% must have and be willing to train 20% on the job.

Mix the sourcing channels: social media, recruitment agencies, local talent, your personal network.

Be transparent: on how your interview process works, compensation range, existing challenges

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

@EdgarMuentes That’s a good mindset to have. Do you find any value in trying different things even though looking back it wasn’t a good fit ?

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

@jjmasse @RoamResearch Notes at work is an obvious example. There is just too much overlap between everything happening. I covered it more in https://t.co/y0sxxHKVKZ

In the personal knowledge base, I see how saving money, note-taking, and health/exercising are connected by a compound effect

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

Reading a book while taking notes in @RoamResearch is much slower, BUT at least now I remember something and can even go look it up. And it adds to my graph, win-win.

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

@jjmasse @RoamResearch The graph grows over time, adding new connections every day (by reading books in my original example). It's the potential to discover ideas and understand concepts by association. The building blocks of new ideas are often embodied in existing knowledge.

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

@jjmasse @RoamResearch adds to my personal knowledge base, easier to discover related content and make interesting connections, like [[learning]] and [[writing]]

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

When you're still relatively new, use this time to bring new ideas and perspectives as an outsider. It's the time to question the current ways of doing things, challenge the status quo. Don’t forget there are usually good reasons things are the way they are.

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

Your first day as a new engineering manager. How to make onboarding to a new team or a company less stressful. [thread 👇] or you can read more here 👉
https://t.co/KHYCwCXA9N

[Alex Bachuk 🇺🇦 @netxm]

You'll be lucky if there is documentation readily available. Your first few weeks are the perfect time to demand documentation. It's the only time to ask stupid questions. And don’t forget to contribute to documentation as you’re learning things.