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hvpandya.com

Fast is a moat

Speed—turning ideas into tangible results quickly is the most powerful competitive advantage you can build.

geoffreylitt.com

Code like a surgeon

A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but that might be a dangerously incomplete view.

seangoedecke.com

How I influence company politics as a staff software engineer

You don't need to be fatalistic about company politics.

herbertlui.net

Don’t let a misunderstanding distract you from your goals

You can decide what certain moments mean to you.

uxdesign.cc

Management values I didn’t expect to learn

Why design management is harder (and better) than we think.

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

calv.info

You still need to think

With AI, someone still has to direct the work—set goals, choose constraints, and judge outputs.

renderghost.leaflet.pub

The worst designer I’ve ever worked with was also the most productive

When companies mistake volume for value, and incentivize outputs over outcomes.

hojberg.xyz

The programmer identity crisis

On AI, creativity, and craft.

terriblesoftware.org

Stop avoiding politics

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

ft.com

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away.

andybudd.com

Should designers be paid the same as engineers?

People aren’t remunerated based on knowledge or effort, but on how much value they generate, protect, or multiply—plus accountability.

seangoedecke.com

What is “good taste” in software engineering?

Technical taste is different from technical skill.

uxdesign.cc

Your next design might be your last

What Randy Pausch’s last lecture teaches us about designing with urgency and purpose.

cate.blog

Getting more strategic

How to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic. Two different things.

carlbarenbrug.com

Why taste matters more

What rarely gets talked about and showcased in portfolios is the one thing that actually makes a designer memorable: taste.

itsnicethat.com

What happens when junior design jobs disappear?

The ladder’s gone – what’s replacing it, and who’s being left behind?

bloodinthemachine.com

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope with AI

Stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether.

newsletter.antoniokov.com

Why aren’t you a good fit?

Asking candidates why we should NOT hire them has turned out to be a remarkable filter.

kyrylo.org

Why do software developers love complexity?

When KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?