Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng

I can only truly speak for myself as a 10x developer, and here’s what I believe to be different about me and the other 10x (or even 100x) developers vs my 1–2x peers:

• Understanding how things work.


• I hate “magic” software frameworks and I will spend countless hours making sure I understand what’s going on behind the scenes before I’ll write productio

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July 2023

If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.

Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more