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How to get more done. Time management and productivity for tech workers.

Getting Started With The Best Engineering Side Hustle: Teaching

Getting Started With The Best Engineering Side Hustle: Teaching

Many people dream about earning money outside their day job. Lucky for you, as a software engineer, you have tons of opportunities to create a lucrative side hustle. The reason is simple: the demand for software (and software education) has never been higher. This leads to many opportunities, but you

Level Up Your Learning And Collaboration As An Engineer With Loom

Level Up Your Learning And Collaboration As An Engineer With Loom

In this new era of remote work, it's more important than ever to collaborative effectively. Here's how Loom can help you achieve that.

Level up your communication with these 5 Slack tips

Level up your communication with these 5 Slack tips

Label your message A common problem in Slack messages is they are a lot to parse. Let's rewrite the above example without the labels to see the difference: While the above message works, it's a lot to take in all at once and it's

Why Every Engineer Needs a Work Journal & How to Maintain One

Why Every Engineer Needs a Work Journal & How to Maintain One

Have you ever found yourself feeling overwhelmed with tasks, struggling to remember what you did last week, or unable to effectively communicate your progress with your team? That's what the first few months of my Software Engineering career looked like, until I adopted the practice of a work

The Patterns of the Most Efficient Software Engineers

The Patterns of the Most Efficient Software Engineers

In a competitive job market, efficiency is more important now than ever. This is especially true in the field of software engineering. With new technologies and approaches emerging every day, it can be difficult to keep up. That's why it's so important to learn from the

Sand time-turner to help with time management

How To Get Stuff Done In Tech (Time Management 101)

I spend a lot of time thinking about time. Time is the most important resource we have, but so many people squander it day by day, week by week, and eventually, across years. In this article, I want to share 3 tactics to maximize how much you get done on