Metamuse

53 // Career with swyx

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Your career is more than just a way to earn a living—it's a foundation for leading the kind of life you want. Shawn joins Mark and Adam to talk about navigating the non-linear course of a career; whether to correct weaknesses vs investing in strengths; salary negotiation; brag documents; and how to create luck. Plus: the Spinal Tap scale for rating software engineers.

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Show notes
  • Shawn Wang @swyx
  • Temporal
  • VBA, Haskell
  • Fullstack Academy
  • Two Sigma, Netlify
  • rough notes on what’s missing in serverless
  • Build in public, Personal brand
  • Learn In Public
  • zero-sum
  • Elasticsearch, Typesense
  • cron job
  • Descript
  • The Coding Career Handbook
  • “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward”
  • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  • Never Split The Difference
  • a leak in your poker game
  • brag documents, Julia Evans
  • recency bias
  • Adam’s pitch to Berlin startups in 2014
  • How to Create Luck
  • luck surface area
  • closed-form solution
  • indie games, Braid
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You
  • lifestyle design
  • Kevin Kwok, P/E ratio, gravitas as a P/E ratio
  • 10x developer
  • Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat and their coding productivity
  • “these go to eleven”
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