1/9 In 2022, the H-1B US Work Visa acceptance rate was 23% for undergraduates and ~39% for advanced degree holders. If that wasn't bad enough, even after you get accepted, if you're Indian, actually going home isn't possible because there's ZERO appointments!

Zvi Band Totally agreed. Colin Bryar (author of working backwards) published an updated version here: coda.io/@colin-bryar/w…

A company asked why it was so hard to hire a good writer. I told them it was because good writing is an illusion: what people call good writing is actually good thinking, and of course good thinkers are rare.

The Need to Read: paulgraham.com/read.html

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

Something I have been thinking about a whole lot recently, this article has good ideas-> Leading With Confidence: How Engineering Managers Can Avoid Technical Decay by Amin in Better Programming betterprogramming.pub/leading-with-c…

Decaf isn’t caffeine free and drinking 30 cups can be fatal, but if you stick to 1 or 2 a day, it can be good for your health. I am so surprised it was banned by countries and orgs in the past.

Going through performance calibrations discussions this week for approx 100 engineers. This after an intense week of preparing decks for my 9 reports. Dreading it a bit but also curious about how it’s going to go (this is our company’s first) leaddev.com/mentoring-coac…

AI turns wi-fi routers into "cameras" that see people through walls x.com/i/status/18047…

“How I Learned to Have Uncomfortable Conversations” by Daniel Shiner humanparts.medium.com/finding-my-fig…

Interesting article about RAG pipeline, vector databases and how LLM’s hallucinations can be limited with more up-to-date information from a vector database like Pinecone etc. leaddev.com/tech/what-retr…

If you have felt like an impostor for years, don’t hide. Put yourself out there for others to give feedback and for you to grow based on learning that feedback. kozyrkov.medium.com/is-your-impost…

"In many cases, what you hope to learn by reading books or listening to podcasts can only be learned by attempting what you fear. Some knowledge is only revealed through action." -James Clear

Characteristics of a senior engineer- some things to imbibe if you are a senior engineer or striving to become one kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-…

This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to be inspiring usually are.

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