10 high leverage meetings I swore by (and really enjoyed) as I learned how to lead product for a couple of Stripe’s fast-growing products back in the day 📈 1) EOD sync with Eng counterpart: Informal sync at the end of the day on issues, the day’s developments, and for venting

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"Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup" -- cep.dev/posts/every-in… Best infrastructure post I've read in YEARS; would love to see this become a hot series. Write one about your choices, please!!!

Book list for senior managers:

10 TED talks that’ll change your life. 🔖10/10 would Bookmark:

Encoding vs Encryption vs Tokenization. Encoding, encryption, and tokenization are three distinct processes that handle data in different ways for various purposes, including data transmission, security, and compliance. In system designs, we need to select the right approach

The SOLID principle is one of the most important design principles in programming. Sadly, most programmers find it super difficult to understand. Here's the simplest guide to understanding SOLID principles:

Excited about this!!! Will Larson

I second this 100%

TIL: Stripe deploys changes to it's core API services 400 times per day 🤯

Say you want to modernize your org and introduce progressive deploys, feature flags, switch o11y vendors, etc. You could: * roll each change out, one at a time * change all at once, Big Bang style, migrating one service at a time Has the Big Bang style EVER worked? For anyone?

💯 there's a reason why evals is the first pattern; can't imagine building any other way (also, rag before finetuning) eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-pa…

How Apple is using OpenLineage and MarquezProject to visualize lineage in Trino, Apache Airflow, Apache Flink and Apache Spark. youtube.com/watch?v=A7hj1M…

Being “in command” doesn't mean being a dictator. It's guiding like an editor unless necessary to step in as the writer—and if too often, it's time to change the team or yourself. longform.asmartbear.com/in-command/?ut…

Waiting for ChatGPT's output is the new waiting for my code to compile.

No one can take away your drive to do excellent work, to learn, to strive, to care. No one can force you to think a thought or be a certain person. But you can let them change you. Make sure that’s a change you want to make. You can also beat yourSELF up. Don’t!

Never forget how good we had it

The future of enterprise isn’t just AI add-ons to old systems—it’s a new foundation entirely. Systems of Intelligence change how software learns, acts, and creates value. A must-read by Andrew Steele. systemsofintelligence.ai

Excited to be part of this revolution!!!