Bugs. They’re the bane of your existence, aren’t they? Over the last few years, I’ve finally gotten to a point where I’m happy with how my team is dealing with bugs. We’re spending less time in the bug database and more time fixing bugs.
So I decided to spread the word to help others.
In honor of Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn coming to visit Chegg, I decided to write up a post for Linked In. It’s called The Best Career Advice I’ve Ever Received.
Fixing my handwriting was a power up for me in that having handwriting that myself and others can actually read has been a huge win. I’ve read two books recently that were business related that have also been power ups,…
My hand writing was awful. But I fixed it. Here’s the before picture. Note that its not even handwriting, its printing. That’s because like most people, I gave up on handwriting. Here’s the thing. Handwriting, or rather, connecting letters is…
Ok, so you’ve got a small technology company and you’ve hit that threshold of about 4 people where it becomes glaringly obvious that you need to institute some process. Or perhaps your engineering team is smaller than that, but you realize that if you don’t spent at least a minimal amount of time on planning your work, you’re going to spend a lot more time doing the wrong work, the less important work, or delivering the wrong thing.
This article will help you bootstrap some minimal processes that will enable you to be much more effective. It should be enough to carry you to the point that you have to split engineering into multiple groups at about 10-20 people.
The Volt at one year old My volt is the best car I’ve ever owned. I’ve had it for a year now. I that time I’ve driven 6800 miles, 5800 of which were pure electric. The 1000 non electric miles…