How to Build Healthy Addictions
How to manage dopamine to experience more drive and motivation.
On The Mundanity of Excellence
Why excellence is actually pretty boring.
Learning From Great Leaders Around You
A simple way to accelerate learning.
Nobody Wants to Evolve
Comfort is a signal of stagnation – run away from it.
It's Really Easy to Miss Opportunities
I started a new job recently. It's the biggest opportunity I've ever had, yet I was close to not taking it. This is how I've started thinking about opportunity so that it doesn't happen again.
Getting Good by Copying Experts
Learning to identify the experts around you is a powerful personal growth strategy. It shows you who you should be copying and it reveals the people you should be placing your bets on.
Should You Prioritise Depth or Breadth In Your Early Career?
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well." - Hugh Walpole
How I've Benefitted From Reading Technology History
It's a strange thing to realise that nothing about the world we live in was inevitable.
What is Hammock Driven Development?
If the solution isn't obvious you don't understand the problem well enough.
Paper Summary: No Silver Bullet
Software gets better not through magical solutions, but with great effort. Care and discipline towards the cleanliness of our code is essential to building better software.