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The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work

Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days.

November 24, 2025
22 min read
Take-Home Exercises

How to design effective take-home exercises that assess both ability and interest, with practical guidelines on scope, payment, and AI-assisted work

October 31, 2025
9 min read
Interactive Hiring Pipeline Calculator

Calculate how many candidates you need to reach out to make one hire based on your conversion rates.

October 26, 2025
3 min read
Running 1:1s for Engineers

A practical, repeatable framework for running weekly engineering 1:1s using the People, Product, Process structure—with exact scripts, Notion setup, and tips for making them actually useful.

October 21, 2025
10 min read
Measuring Engineering Productivity

A lightweight system for measuring engineering productivity that puts the overhead on managers, not engineers—using changelogs, standups, and visibility over surveillance

October 17, 2025
12 min read

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What was it like to work at Digg during Digg V4?

A first-hand account of working at Digg during the controversial V4 launch—the excitement, challenges, and lessons learned

May 19, 2012
12 min read

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engineering-management

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work

Take-Home Exercises

Interactive Hiring Pipeline Calculator

Running 1:1s for Engineers

Measuring Engineering Productivity

hiring

Take-Home Exercises

Interactive Hiring Pipeline Calculator

Are job interviews a farce?

tech-industry

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work

Avoiding the Trailing Slash Tax on Github Pages and Astro

Paying the SOC2 Screenshot Tax

Everything is content now

Are job interviews a farce?

The Zombie Apocalypse Scale

Jokes. You invented bad jokes.

Instagram Is Too Big Not to Mess With

What was it like to work at Digg during Digg V4?

business

Paying the SOC2 Screenshot Tax

The Zombie Apocalypse Scale

Jokes. You invented bad jokes.

Please Make Money.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Startup Options

security

Paying the SOC2 Screenshot Tax

Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter

In defense of biometrics

You should delete your tweets

social-media

Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter

You should delete your tweets

Instagram Is Too Big Not to Mess With

programming

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work

Avoiding the Trailing Slash Tax on Github Pages and Astro

margins

Paying the SOC2 Screenshot Tax

Everything is content now

Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter

Are job interviews a farce?

The Zombie Apocalypse Scale

In defense of biometrics

Jokes. You invented bad jokes.

Please Make Money.

You should delete your tweets

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Startup Options

personal

What was it like to work at Digg during Digg V4?