I've read 350+ articles in 2023, mostly (300+) technical articles about Engineering & Engineering Management and some about Career, Leadership, Financial Freedom, Psychology & Writing.
Here are My 23 Favorites based on the number of insights I gained from them. They are ranked… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739315781865722305
1️⃣ Will Larson (@Lethain)
My 2023 Favorite:
- Meetings for an Effective Eng Organization. (41 HLs)
→ Link: lethain.com/eng-org-meetings/
Others highly influential ideas I got from him this year:
- Writing an Engineering Strategy. (36)
- Writing Strategies and Visions. (23)
-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739317174160756832
2️⃣ Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become an Engineering Manager? (43 HLs)
→ Link: charity.wtf/2023/12/15/why-should-you-or-anyone-become-an-engineering-manager/
Others highly influential ideas I got from her this year:
- LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development (29)
- Live Your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739320384472637672
3️⃣ Dave Anderson (@scarletinked)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- My Missed Career Opportunities, or Why I'm Not an SVP (18 HLs)
→ Link: scarletink.com/p/my-missed-career-opportunities
Others highly influential ideas I got from him this year:
- 12 Things I Learned in Big Tech (39)
- What Happens if You're Hit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739325619102495205
4️⃣ Isabel Hazan (@isabelunraveled)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Why I Write. (23 HLs)
→ Link: mindmine.substack.com/p/why-i-write
Others highly influential pieces I read from her this year:
- Living in Alignment (19)
- Upper and Lower Companions (15)
- Processing Time(15)
- Finding Mental… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739331412887560228
5️⃣ Fabio Akita (@AkitaOnRails)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- [Akitando] #119 - Rant: Aprendizado Na Beira Do Caos (Learning on the Edge of Chaos) (41 HLs)
→ Link (original pt-br): akitaonrails.com/2022/05/30/akitando-119-rant-aprendizado-na-beira-do-caos-rated-r
→ Link (translated en): www-akitaonrails-com.translate.goog/2022/05/30/akitando-119-rant-aprendizado-na-beira-do-caos-rated-r?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-BR&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Other highly influential ideas… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739339985533194301
6️⃣ Molly Graham (@molly_g )
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- 10 Things I Wish I Knew About Careers When I Started (36 HLs)
→ Link: mollyg.substack.com/p/early-career-advice
Others highly influential ideas I got from her this year:
- Learners vs Guides: Building Your Leadership Team (14)
- Manage the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739343490054537541
7️⃣ Gergely Orson (@GergelyOrosz)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Real-World Engineering Challenges #8: Breaking Up a Monolith (34 HLs)
→ Link: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/real-world-eng-8
Others highly influential writings I read from him this year:
- Inside OpenAI: How Does ChatGPT Ship So Quickly? (15)
-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739346143203524993
8️⃣ Tanya Reilly (@whereistanya)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Having Impact in Engineering by Supporting Other People's Ideas (18 HLs)
→ Link: leaddev.com/technical-decision-making/having-impact-engineering-supporting-other-peoples-ideas
9️⃣ Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Interview with Megan Greenwell: “I prefer a bit of a commute to get me in the writing zone.” (18 HLs)
→ Link: famouswritingroutines.com/interviews/interview-with-megan-greenwell/
1️⃣0️⃣ Luca Rossi (@lucaronin)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Good Strategy / Bad Strategy 📗 (11 HLs)
→ Link: refactoring.fm/p/good-strategy-bad-strategy
1️⃣1️⃣ Louie Bacaj (@LBacaj)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- M&Ms: America Is Antifragile
→ Link: newsletter.memesmotivations.com/p/m-and-ms-america-is-antifragile
Others highly influential ideas I got from him this year:
- The Original "PDF Hustler"
- M&Ms: A Business Lesson from Beers and Strikes
Louie is a great friend and a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739405484161994816
1️⃣2️⃣ Ravi Mehta (@ravi_mehta)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- What’s Your Shape? A Product Manager’s Guide to Growing Yourself and Your Team (19 HLs)
→ Link: ravi-mehta.com/product-manager-roles/
Other ideas I got from him this year:
- Building Your Product Strategy Stack (13 HLs)
Ravi was highly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739408298531549681
1️⃣3️⃣Gil Tene (@giltene)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- #LatencyTipOfTheDay: Q: What's wrong with this picture? A: Everything!
→ Link: latencytipoftheday.blogspot.com/2014/06/latencytipoftheday-q-whats-wrong-with_21.html
Additionally, his talks on misery metrics were highly influential to me this year.
1️⃣4️⃣Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Advanced Time Management Principles (that was actually a pretty long twitter thread)
→ Link: twitter.com/shreyas/status/1492345140492472321
1️⃣5️⃣Juan Pablo Buriticá (@buritica)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- From Good to Great: A Capability Framework for Building Exceptional Product Engineering Teams
→ Link: buriti.ca/from-good-to-great-a-capability-framework-for-building-exceptional-product-engineering-teams-a8ca4e9e8f47
1️⃣6️⃣Allan Leinwand (@leinwand)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Six Tips for Staying Technical as a CTO
→ Link: shopify.engineering/six-tips-staying-technical-cto
1️⃣7️⃣ Justin Rushing
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Client Tracing: Understanding Mobile and Desktop Application Performance at Scale (31 HLs)
→ Link: slack.engineering/client-tracing-understanding-mobile-and-desktop-application-performance-at-scale/
1️⃣8️⃣ Jorge Mazal (@jorgemazal)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- How Duolingo Reignited User Growth (12 HLs)
→ Link: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duolingo-reignited-user-growth
1️⃣9️⃣ Emily Nakashima (@eanakashima )
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP & Part 2: Doing the Job (46 HLs)
→ Link (pt1): honeycomb.io/blog/becoming-vp-of-engineering-pt1
→ Link (pt2): honeycomb.io/blog/becoming-vp-of-engineering-pt2
2️⃣0️⃣ Felipe Hummel (@felipehummel)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- The Value of Canonicity (19 HLs)
→ Link: building.nubank.com.br/the-value-of-canonicity/
2️⃣1️⃣ Yossi Kreinin (@YossiKreinin)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- People Can Read Their Manager's Mind (19 HLs)
→ Link: yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.html
2️⃣2️⃣ Alejandro Rodríguez (@arodriguez296)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- My Transition From Native iOS Developer to Being Able to Face Any Challenge (16 HLs)
→ Link: building.nubank.com.br/my-transition-from-native-ios-developer-to-being-able-to-face-any-challenge/
Absolutely loved Alejandro's article in so many levels. It is the perfect example and a real… twitter.com/i/web/status/1739469147623301246
2️⃣3️⃣ Adam Tornhill (@AdamTornhill)
💡My 2023 Favorite:
- Brooks's Law - Software Project Management (13 HLs)
→ Link: codescene.com/blog/visualize-brooks-law/
BONUS:
2️⃣4⃣ Suman Karumuri (@mansu)
- Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs (21 HLs)
→ Link: slack.engineering/tracing-at-slack-thinking-in-causal-graphs/
BONUS:
2️⃣5⃣ Alex Ewerlöf (@alexewerlof):
- We Invested 10% to Pay Back Tech Debt; Here's What Happened
→ Link: blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day
BONUS:
2️⃣6⃣ Michael Natkin (@michaelnatkin):
- Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech
→ Link: medium.com/swlh/strong-opinions-loosely-held-might-be-the-worst-idea-in-tech-c3e65cb512f1
Alright, that is it! My Top 23 Picks from my 350+ Reads in 2023 Ranked by Insight & Influence.
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Thiago Ghisi
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