Software Systems Are Fighter Jets

The MiG-25 Foxbat struck fear into western intelligence for over a decade. It seemingly achieved greatness out of thin air. But once the world got a hold of one and saw what it really was, it showed that engineering is a balance of compromises.

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What Does It Mean To Be A Senior IC

One day you wake up and know all the answers. You know how to implement a binary search tree. You know how to exit vim. What if being senior is knowing the right answer but not doing it.

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Hacker's Guide to Entropy

A task with high entropy is one that has a lot of unknowns and requires significant consideration. These unknowns and considerations can make you feel overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. But I bet, given a difficult task, if told to complete it as if a hackathon project, you’d be able to achieve some incredible progress because you have no fear.

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