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Show Notes
Your career is more than just a way to earn a living—it's a foundation for leading the kind of life you want. Shawn joins Mark and Adam to talk about navigating the non-linear course of a career; whether to correct weaknesses vs investing in strengths; salary negotiation; brag documents; and how to create luck. Plus: the Spinal Tap scale for rating software engineers.
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Show notes
- Shawn Wang @swyx
- Temporal
- VBA, Haskell
- Fullstack Academy
- Two Sigma, Netlify
- rough notes on what’s missing in serverless
- Build in public, Personal brand
- Learn In Public
- zero-sum
- Elasticsearch, Typesense
- cron job
- Descript
- The Coding Career Handbook
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward”
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Never Split The Difference
- a leak in your poker game
- brag documents, Julia Evans
- recency bias
- Adam’s pitch to Berlin startups in 2014
- How to Create Luck
- luck surface area
- closed-form solution
- indie games, Braid
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You
- lifestyle design
- Kevin Kwok, P/E ratio, gravitas as a P/E ratio
- 10x developer
- Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat and their coding productivity
- “these go to eleven”