Do you have your "promotion team"?
Learn which people you need to get on your "promotion team", the power of latest agentic AIs and why reuse can be harmful.
When working on getting promoted (especially for senior+ roles), it turns out that focusing only on your work might not be enough. Focusing on the key people that will be influencing that promotion is valuable as well. The article below will tell you which people you should focus on and how they can help accelerate your promotion.
The One Tip to Faster Promotions That No One Is Telling You (5 min)
A great advice I heard about getting a promotion faster is to act as if you are already promoted. In this article
goes a bit further than that and shares important people to focus on in order to increase chances of your promotion. There are four important personas he shares, and each of them has something unique that will help you get there.
Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn how to increase chances for promotion
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐🌟
Introducing Manus: The General AI Agent (4 min video)
Manus AI
Take a look at this AI agent 🤖 that is going viral in China 🇨🇳 right now.
Audience: All tech professionals
Value: Learn about bleeding-edge AI
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐🌟
(Naive) Reuse Considered Harmful? (5 min)
The Architect Elevator
Reuse is considered a good practice in coding. It streamlines implementations, reduces code and makes things simpler to reason about. Architecturally, however, there are cases where good old reuse is not optimal and can even cause more harm than good. This goes against the intuition we have developed for so long as engineers.
Audience: Software Engineers / Architects
Value: Learn when/how reuse can be harmful
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
How To Not Lose Your Star Performers (8 min)
As an engineering manager, your team members’ performance lies on a wide spectrum. Some are rockstar ninjas 🥷🧑💻 that spit out high quality features in no time, while some struggle and require a lot of handholding. As a manager, it is very natural to slip into the habit of focusing your attention on the reports that struggle. However, this might lead to churn of your high-performers. In this article
will bust 4 myths about high performers that will help you avoid this unwanted scenario.Audience: Engineering Managers
Value: Learn how to manage high-performers
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
Unspoken git secrets that save you mountains ⛰️ of time as an engineer (6 min)
As software engineers, GIT is one of the most heavily used tools in our toolchain. This article goes beyond basics, and shares some GIT superpowers that will save you time and help you be a more productive coder.
Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn about advanced GIT tricks
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
How to Be a Solopreneur? (8 min)
Last week we had an article on the dark sides of solopreneurship. In this one
shares quite an opinionated positive perspective on solopreneurship. Read it to get excited about the positive aspects of this life choice.Audience: All tech professionals
Value: Learn about solopreneurship
ToT Rating: ⭐
Remove the question tax: Why the best engineers ask more questions (6 min)
In this great article,
talks about a benefit that LLMs revolution brought that I did not think about. Imposter syndrome is no stranger in the tech industry. And it often prevents us from asking questions for fear of appearing dumb or incompetent. As this fear is a social one, LLMs eliminate it, as you can ask them whatever you want without fear of being judged or scrutinized. Fran further argues that with the advance of AI, the skill of asking the right questions (aka prompting) will be much more important than pure knowledge hoarding.
Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn the power of asking questions (or the weakness of not asking them)
ToT Rating: ⭐
Should managers still code? (9 min)
The Engineering Manager by James Stanier
In this article
goes on to answer an evergreen question. It is not easy to determine the right level of involvement in the code for an EM. This article will help you by giving you the exact list of what you should do or be able to do as an EM.Audience: Engineering Managers
Value: Learn how much you should code as an EM
ToT Rating: ⭐
See you next week! 👋
Appreciate the mention, Jovan! 🙏