Software Design: Tidy First?

Somewhere in the gray area between executive presence, coaching, work, art, furbabies, and swing dance.

"The VC Corner" equips investors and entrepreneurs with crucial insights and updates, aiding in strategic decision-making within the dynamic startup landscape

Navigating Beyond Technology Hype for Sustainable Software Delivery

Optimise developer productivity and judgement through small yet impactful steps. Essays from experience and research straight to your inbox.

Unlock the Untapped Potential of Your Engineering Team. Master yourself and rid yourself of limiting beliefs. Become the leader worthy of a high performing team. Learn how to build the right things at the right time with proven industry practices

The Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future

Grow faster in your software engineering career with weekly actionable tips you can use right away.

Words about writing, and the world, and the weird and fascinating things in it. Everything's interesting if you give it a good look — so let's go do that.

I'm a Lead iOS Engineer working in London startups. Every 3 weeks, I'll send you ludicrously in-depth articles about iOS, Swift, and indie projects.

A weekly newsletter about the highs, lows, and difficult lessons learned as an engineering leader at a tech startup.

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Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 500,000 friendly readers.

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.

Cultural Pith, Terrible Secrets and Quality Rants. Two fresh original pieces and two obscure throwback articles a month, with audio performances and oil paintings for all.

Navigating careers as a human in the high-pressure Tech scene is unclear and difficult. This newsletter covers all the career skills you need to succeed from my hard-fought experience at Google, Uber, and startups over the last 14+ years.

Writing the software is 90% of the work. The second (harder) 90% is everything else, and that's what we talk about here!

Practical advice on writing great software and working well with humans, delivered weekly to 75,000+ friends.

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Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)