All the tools you need to learn software engineering are free—get to work.

Kelsey makes a great point. So funny how so many people are so literal they don’t get the obvious reasoning behind the statement.

It’s important to have opinions. But at times it’s equally important to disagree, but then commit to where your team wants to go. It’s okay to try, learn, and try again.

Anyone use Reddit? What do you use it for? Seems to have a lot of tech related community and content.

I’ve been working for top tech companies for the last 10+ years, and there is always a consistent problem we deal with. A constant cycle of defining, re-defining, writing visions, re-visioning, prioritizing, re-prioritizing.

We use many deployment strategies to help us feel confident a complex app release is successful. What if AI could prevent bad deployments—keeping bad code from ever hitting production?

I asked ChatGPT what technology stack a new software engineer should use to help learn important concepts. ChatGPT says use Heroku.

When you ask people to think beyond what they are used to, they might be skeptical. But that’s NOT a signal to stop. You could be on to something great.

Building a startup is 80% failure and 20% breakthroughs. The trick is making sure the 20% is big enough to keep you going.

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7️⃣ Let egos go unchecked • Egos can happen at any level... • But they can be MASSIVE at the exec level • This leads to unhealthy conflict & division across the company • Get this in check and drive a "one team one dream" mentality

Regardless of what role you want in tech, it’s always valuable to have basic understanding of system architecture. Don’t shy away from being more technical. It can only help you.

If I can’t find dark mode I’m not using your app. You ain’t gonna blind me.

FYI, If you’ve ever had the interview question: “what happens when you put [some domain].com into the browser”— that’s your opportunity to show what you understand about system architecture. Honestly, I wish they would just ask that question directly.

Could production environments become so reliable that we eliminate the need for test and staging?

Master your craft. That is under your control. 90% of the knowledge you need is free and online. Knowledge not written can be gained by your network.

Passion without discipline is just talk.

I’m reposting several Heroku jobs on LinkedIn, follow me there! Link in my profile.

Do it!

Enterprise tech jobs are a great place to be mentored, and learn about scale and complexity rarely seen in other places, all at a reasonable pace. I’ll be writing 100 articles on domains you should learn to add value to the enterprise. Stay tuned!