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Each week I share new insights I learn about software engineering, business, and psychology, and how they relate to each other.
As Patrick McKenzie says "Most secrets about how the world works aren’t secrets, they’re just knowledge unevenly distributed."
Here's to playing a tiny part in distributing knowledge a little more evenly.
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Past Newsletters
Newsletter #12 - My sister got scammed. The bank helped her scammers
Hi friends, My sister just wanted to earn some money before returning to college. She found a job posting on craigslist, which she learned too late had been carefully written by scammers. Those people took advantage of her bank website&
Newsletter #11 - Send a Bat Signal
At work, cutting scope is a way to potentially save weeks of effort. But where does cutting scope cross the line into cutting corners? Slava and I try to find that line in: The Nonintuitive Bits episode 25: Cutting Scope
Newsletter #10 - Why I stopped focusing on the user
Authentic networking in a covid-world. The journey beats the destination. Define your culture by asking questions
Newsletter #9 - How my coworker got senior leaders to consider his proposals
A couple weeks ago I suggested repeating your message [https://www.zainrizvi.io/newsletter/newsletter-7-everything-is-an-opportunity-to-learn?&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=getting_senior_leaders_to_consider_your_proposals&utm_term=2020-09-09#try-to-over-communicate-i-dare-you] twenty one
Newsletter #8 - When someone said I was wrong 😬
Do you have people who disagree with you? My old coworkers from Google are happy to do it. They're great to bounce ideas off of, and last October we started a podcast where we'd discuss our
Newsletter #7 - Everything is an opportunity to learn
In the past few days, some of my articles have really hit a chord [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/igfn8p/whats_it_like_as_a_senior_engineer_my_experiences/] on reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/
Newsletter #6 - Struggling with Impostor Syndrome
Two years into my first job at Microsoft, I was expecting to be fired. I felt like I wasn't good enough, like I was only pretending to be smart. I spent years desperately trying to hide my incompetence
Newsletter #5 - Keeping side projects alive
Ever notice that it’s much easier to give advice to others than to give advice to yourself? I have a group of friends from my writing class [https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0xNDg2OTIzMTczNzEzNjc5NzQ0JmM9dTF1NCZlPTMzMiZiPTM4NzIwNDkzOCZkPWMyajhkNHA=.AYlWxPPu39fP9_LeUQn9APFvUqSqSeegwVJIWtNylRI] , and every week
Newsletter #4 - Community Edition
Last weekend I had a huge zoom call with my extended family. Parents with nine siblings each equals many, many cousins. I met cousins who I hadn't talked to in years, saw nephews and nieces I've
Newsletter #3 - Navigating the Workplace
It's amazing how much the simple act of writing down your ideas helps you think 🤯 That happened to me this week. I'm writing an article about altruism (you'll see it next week), and I
Newsletter #2 - Senior Engineering
Last week I said that I'm taking an online writing class called Write of Passage. What made me sign up for it? Well, I read a lot. I mean a LOT. Like, the-librarian-knows-me-by-name a lot. But often the
Newsletter #1 - Interview Advice
I recently started David Perell’s course “Write of Passage” It’s an intensive 5 week class teaching how to extract all those thoughts in your head and put them down on paper. It’s a grueling pace, where you