Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers. There are currently 57 articles available, with new ones posted about every week.
-
Know Who To Ask
-
Be Visible
-
Embrace Boring Technology
-
Understand Your Manager
-
Be Productively Pessimistic
-
Know The Difference Between Wartime and Peacetime
-
Get Good At Reading Code
-
Understand What Your Organization Values
-
Don't Overfit On Past Problems
-
Teaching Is A Good Way To Learn
-
Pay Attention To What's Easy Now
-
Say Yes To Interesting Things
-
Tend Towards Action
-
Learn How To Deal With Gumption Traps
-
Pay Down Process Debt
-
Figure Out What Doesn't Matter
-
Give People Something To Disagree With
-
Get Good At Learning
-
Empowering Others Is Impactful
-
Keep Up With the Industry, At Least a Little
-
Be Unavailable Sometimes
-
Sell Yourself
-
Be Present When Things Go Wrong
-
Build Tools When You Solve Problems
-
When You're On Vacation, Be On Vacation
-
Don't Over-Optimize Your Tools
-
Your Job Is To Solve Problems, Not Write Code
-
Nobody Cares About Your Career As Much As You Do
-
If You See Something, Say Something
-
Spend Your Career Capital
-
Make Small Changes
-
Documentation Is a Culture, Not a Task
-
Take on Projects That Push You
-
Don't Launch on Friday
-
Overcommunicate
-
Embrace Linters
-
Focus On One Thing At a Time
-
Celebrate Small Wins
-
Don't Waste a Good Mistake
-
Don't Burn Out
-
Ask Questions In Public
-
Don't Be Too Clever
-
Find Someone You Can Bring Half Baked Ideas To
-
Talk To People That Intimidate You
-
Debug Like a Scientist
-
When You're Stuck, Step Away
-
Know How Things Are Going To Break
-
Programming Languages Are Tools, Not Identities
-
Thank People
-
Do Momentum Building Work
-
Know How To Confirm It Works
-
Write Down Your Accomplishments
-
Talk To People Outside Your Department
-
Write While You Work
-
Build Something From Scratch
-
Watch Other People Work
-
You Will Break Production