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Nov 29, 2025 · 9 min read · The Idea I recently found myself wanting to distill the contents of a YouTube channel, playlist, or even a single, longer video down to its core themes, advice, and insights. For me, the main use case was creating strength training programs based on ...
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Nov 9, 2025 · 5 min read · Overall themes Staff engineering is a senior individual-contributor leadership role: you lead through influence, not reports, and your impact spans multiple teams and years. The job clusters into three pillars: big-picture thinking, project executi...
Join discussionOct 30, 2025 · 25 min read · Background This post will summarize the key ideas and insights extracted from the best software engineering book I’ve read, Software Engineering at Google. The book is full of valuable lessons, tethered to reality through real world examples, which I...
Join discussionSep 12, 2025 · 12 min read · This post serves as a cliffs notes summary of the book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, by Richard Monson-Haefel. It’s an insightful book, some of the “things” are more useful than others, but overall it’s a good reference to have in y...
Join discussionAug 31, 2025 · 18 min read · Background I’m a fairly dedicated and consistent gym goer. I’ve been training for almost 20 years, with no plans of slowing down. My workouts have become fairly specific, with a strong focus on strength training for the main compound movements (squat...
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