Elon Musk's 5-step process

Here's how the Tesla founder's advice can provide lessons for CPAs.

Danaher: Masterful Capital Allocation and Lean Manufacturing, Combined

How Danaher combines Lean manufacturing with masterful capital allocation to build a remarkable manufacturing company in the United States.

The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.

(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years ru

Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations

Turning Back the Clock: The 1951 Bell Manual for Operating a Rotary Telepho

In 1951, Bell Telephone System introduced a guide titled "The Telephone and How We Use It," designed to aid elementary school students and others in understanding the operation of classic rotary dial phones. The guide detailed everything from basic phone use, handling…

Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk

The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment - Wikipedia

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment is a nonfiction book by professors Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein. It was first published on May 18, 2021. The book concerns 'noise' in human judgment and decision-making. The authors define noise in human judgment as…

What’s an Operational Definition Anyway?

Two principles on collecting data, from the field of Statistical Process Control. As with most principles in SPC, this is both simpler and more important than you might think.

No sacred masterpieces

Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

I've been involved in spacecraft and space systems design and development for my entire career, including teaching the senior-level capstone spacecraft design course, for ten years at MIT and now at the University of Maryland for more than three decades.

What is a Tooltip? Definition, Types, and Best Practices

Time to define tooltips and share best practices. Explore tooltip types and its examples in our blog post coming from a prototyping tool.

The not-app-building parts of building an app

Large customers require engineers to build several acronyms

Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming For - Commoncog

Good news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it.

Intellectual Laziness

Book Review: Power Failure

DORA | DevOps Research and Assessment

DORA is a long running research program that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance. DORA helps teams apply those capabilities, leading to better organizational performance.

How do you solve world-class problems?

The power of primitives

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Forecast Evaluation for Data Scientists: Common Pitfalls and Best Practices

lifehacks - Alexey Guzey

be as specific as possible. “agi takeoff fast”: define “agi” “takeoff” “fast” there’s no such thing as a coincidence for decisions: autoresolve (1) on specific date (2) to the scary one let people tell you no. don’t make the decision for them. if you’re ever confused about what…

The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites

Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarchy, and utilize an underlying grid structure.

Welcome to Hillstone, America's Favorite Restaurant | Bon Appétit

It’s never going to win a James Beard Award. Or try to wow you with its foam experiments or ingredients you’ve never heard of. But it is the best-run, most-loved, relentlessly respected restaurant in America. And, oh yeah, Danny Meyer, David Chang, and Shaq all agree. Welcome to…

What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

7 Scikit-Learn Best Practices For Data Scientists

Tips for taking full advantage of this machine learning package

A Guide to Memoization in Ruby

Discover the benefits of memoization for your Ruby application, common mistakes to avoid, and when not to memoize.

9 Best Ecommerce UX Practices From the World's Best Ecommerce Site

Discover the 9 best ecommerce UX practices from the world's top B2B ecommerce sites that made the top of HackerNews as the best ecommerce site.

What I learned at GitLab that I don't want to forget

After a little over 5 years, I'm going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It's no surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I'm so proud of what we built—and I'm still proud and awed by

How to Choose the Best Machine Learning Technique: Comparison Table

Want your customers to RTFM? Try building a better user manual

For a cost-effective way to reduce expenses, boost retention and drive new revenues, bring your outdated user manuals into the digital era.

The Mysterious, Stubborn Appeal of Mass-Produced Fried Chicken

Why do so many accomplished chefs call Popeyes their favorite fried chicken?

Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice

What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company context, and what was surprising and difficult about it.

The Anatomy of an Amazon 6-pager

A deep dive into writing detailed planning docs from one of the most successful companies in the world

21 management things I learned at Imgur

It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t.

Super successful companies

I spent some time recently thinking about what companies that grow up to be extremely successful do when they are very young. I came up with the following list. It’s from personal experience and...

The 3 Competitive Defenses of Enduring SaaS Companies by @ttunguz

A technology advantage isn’t enough to build an enduring enterprise SaaS company because at the core, all SaaS software share the same architecture. A relational database stores data and a web site presents the data. This is true for CRM (Salesforce), marketing automation…

Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down

I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most raised eyebrows, as well the most "aha!" moments is the

57 startup lessons

There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four years. If you’re starting a company, I hope you have an easier path.

90 Things I Learned From Founding 4 Tech Companies

44 engineering management lessons

Welcome to engineering management. It’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rewarding — but most importantly it’s new! What worked for you before won’t work now. You’ll have to acquire a new set of skills, and shed some bad habits in the process. Here is a short guide to get you started.

Report templates for fewer status meetings | Folding Burritos

Report templates, and guided steps to create them, so Product Managers spend less time in status meetings and more time out of the building

Why Key Results Need to Be Results

If you know nothing about OKRs, please start here: Art of the OKR. Or buy my book, Radical Focus. I think it’s rather good. An Objective is the goal you wish to achieve in a g…

Ruby Style Guide

Make Operations Your Secret Weapon - Here’s How

Etsy COO Linda Kozlowski knows an operations leader is critical to the success of a company. Here, she sheds light on the most mysterious role in the C-suite — and how startups can hire and empower the right COO for their company.

Steve Blank Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a cu…

What Process Mining Is, and Why Companies Should Do It

There have long been a few fundamental challenges associated with business process management. But a relatively new and innovative technology, process mining, has the capability to revitalize process management in firms where it has lain fallow for years. One problem involves…

How To Structure A Marketplace | TechCrunch

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by Simon Rothman of Greylock Partners. Rothman is particularly passionate about Marketplace technology (Etsy, Kickstarter, Airbnb, etc) and how to garner success in that category. Marketplaces are endemic to the consumer web: Largely…

“Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes

A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle.

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits - Ken Kantzer's Blog

While I was leading PKC’s security practice, we did probably 20-30 code security audits, almost of all of them for startups that were just around their Series A or B (that was usually when they had cash and realized that it’d be good to take a deeper look at their security…

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3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart

New research reveals that how we perform work as a team contributes more to resilience than external stressors. On resilient teams, individuals feel responsible for energizing each other. This is in stark contrast to teams who are challenged by frustrating ways of working and…

Feature design checklist

Questions that ensure you consider e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ a few things when designing a new feature.