In the spring of 2015, my manager in London told me he was impressed with my technical breadth. I joined his team after a hackamonth working on a code editor with Kent Beck, went on to work on some …
Breadth
Category: software
Depth
In this piece I discuss the practice of going deep into a system through a few examples. I believe I do this more often and more thoroughly than the average engineer, giving me an edge when tackling problems and increasing …
1wloc
Joining Facebook in May of 2011 was quite a shock for me. I had come from 6 years at Microsoft, at a time a slow behemoth so big that it could probably ship software faster if it had less engineers. …