"You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser” - Jensen Huang
Jensen nearly lost his composure during a heated debate about selling chips to China, despite showing tremendous patience in response to the pushback.
If you look for a reason to hate a person, eventually you'll find it. If you look for a reason to celebrate a person, eventually you'll find it.
The former leads to resentment and destructive cynicism. The latter leads to happiness and growth for you and for those you celebrate.
Folks seem to tune software development for a desired output rate. That's a disaster. Here's why, what to do instead, and (at the end) a speculation about an unhelpful belief that might underlie this behavior.
You can have the fanciest CI/CD pipeline on the planet, but if you don’t push to trunk a few times a day at least, you’re not integrating continuously. CI is an attitude, not a pipeline.
One of the most valuable skills for engineers of any level of seniority is learning how to be very productive when dealing with extremely “messy” systems or codebases.
People who have this skill are often very successful in pretty much any conceivable scenario.
This is the best satire I've ever seen on the incredible misalignment between computer science majors, corporate software interview practices, and actual application engineering. So mad I didn't write this myself https://t.co/zWsqUSM6mO