Swizec's articles in the "book" category
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Below are 34 articles filed under book. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Insights for interviews from Kahneman's Noise
everything people say is bad about modern tech interviews is actually good 🤯
April 14th, 2023
What I learned from Staff Engineer by Will Larson
Staff Engineer was one of the more impactful books I've read in recent months. Went through the audiobook soon after becoming tech lead so the timing was perfect.
November 17th, 2022
The Passion Paradox
burnout doesn't work the way you think
December 24th, 2021
What I learned from Software Engineering at Google
When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, lessons apply to teams as small as 5.
July 16th, 2021
Your career needs a vision
In his book, The Art of Science and Engineering, Richard Hamming says the key to a great career is vision. What does that really look like?
July 14th, 2021
Different medium, different mindset
Ever wondered what it's like to make a physical book? It ain't as easy as shipping code lemme tell ya 😅
March 19th, 2021
What I learned from Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
March 29th, 2018
What I learned from Cal Newport's Deep Work
May 26th, 2017
What I learned from Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking
February 11th, 2016
What I learned from Kathy Sierra's Badass
September 18th, 2015
What I learned from Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
August 17th, 2015
It's good to be back, but I still don't know where I like it more
October 15th, 2014
Force users to add a facebook login with devise omniauth
June 20th, 2013
Facebook ads: good for likes, bad for sales
June 12th, 2013
It takes about two months to write a technical book
March 26th, 2013
Cool thing Thursday: Leanpub
November 22nd, 2012
Turns out I'll be writing a book
September 11th, 2012
Do waste many a single moment
June 5th, 2012
A year of 750words.com - with shiny graphs
May 18th, 2012
Making our irc bot talk
April 25th, 2012
Google+ redesigned into Facebook
April 11th, 2012
19 months from launch to $1,000,000,000 acquisition: Instagram
April 10th, 2012
Online, real names provide anonymity
April 3rd, 2012
An evil business model that works
March 27th, 2012
Notebook fetishism
October 27th, 2011
Spending money online is crazy hard!
September 24th, 2011
The quickreading
September 10th, 2011
The Twitters pitched 5 products, why I chose the first
June 9th, 2011
RSS not dead, just misunderstood
September 14th, 2010
Why the digital book revolution is stupid
December 8th, 2009
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
Join Swizec's Newsletter and get insightful emails 💌 on mindsets, tactics, and technical skills for your career. Real lessons from building production software. No bullshit.
"Man, love your simple writing! Yours is the only newsletter I open and only blog that I give a fuck to read & scroll till the end. And wow always take away lessons with me. Inspiring! And very relatable. 👌"