Stories by ZephyrBlu

How NOT to hire a software engineer

Lazy Work, Good Work

Low-level is easy (2008)

Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)

No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)

How to Get Promoted

An XML DOM with just 8 bytes per node

Senior Engineers Reduce Risk

A Quick Look at 20% Time

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

Effort Shock and Reward Shock

The Importance Trap

Retrospective on “On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning”

Ethereum Is a Dark Forest

What I Learnt from Complexity

Willingness to look stupid

The Asymmetry of Breakups

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