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#49: How to Write Effectively at Work —2023-01-24

#48: Lagom, Clutters in Life, and The Habit of The Rich —2023-01-10

#47: Techniques and Tools for Energy Management —2022-12-27

#46: Which One to Manage: Time or Energy? —2022-12-13

#45: How to Explain Things Clearly —2022-11-29

#44: Returning to Office and Remote Work —2022-11-15

#43: Mektup is changing: Failures and Reflections —2022-11-01

#42: How to Answer Hiring Manager's Questions in Interviews —2022-10-18

#41: One Thing At A Time: Multitasking for Software Engineers —2022-10-04

#40: Pros and Cons of Changing Tech Stacks —2022-09-21

#39: How I got a promotion offer from another company —2022-09-06

#38: Can you get a promotion by changing jobs? —2022-08-23

#37: Mentoring vs. Coaching vs. Teaching —2022-08-09

#36: How to Become A Great Mentor —2022-07-26

#35: Don't call people resources —2022-07-13

#34: Process Thinking: Too Few Processes is Chaos; Too Many Won't Move Anything —2022-06-28

#33: One milestone and five articles. —2022-06-14

#32: Product Shouldn’t Be Left to Product Managers —2022-05-31

#31: Can non-engineer leaders be successful in leading engineering teams? —2022-05-17

#30: The Exceptional Books, Articles, Videos, and Communities That Made Me a Better Engineering Leader —2022-05-03

#29: Building the right relationships helps you climb the ladder —2022-04-19

#28: Changing jobs to seek happiness won't bring you what you want. —2022-04-05

#27: Unstuck yourself from the ideas that go nowhere —2022-03-22

#26: How to Create a Definition of Done in Your Team —2022-03-08

#25: You Need A Definition of Done in Your Team —2022-02-22

#24: One of the best superpowers you can get as an engineering leader —2022-02-08

#23: The closest you can get into a leading role: hosting a workshop —2022-01-25

#22: What should you expect from your manager? —2022-01-11

#21: Which skills should you learn in 2022? and How? —2021-12-28

#20: The Rule of Three to Avoid Bias —2021-12-14

#19: How to Prepare for Your Annual Review —2021-11-30

#18: What did you learn during the last month? —2021-11-16

#17: Pair programming is not only for you. —2021-11-02

#16: Why do you hide your goals and ambitions? —2021-10-19

#15: You don't need a title to be a leader! —2021-10-05

#14: How often do you go out of your comfort zone? —2021-09-21

#13: How do you contribute to the problem? —2021-09-07

#12: Stairway to the Promotion —2021-08-24

#11: Do you know what's coming next? —2021-08-05

#10: The Career Frameworks —2021-07-22

#9: Personal Ego vs. Team Ego —2021-07-08

#8: Technical Depth vs Technical Breadth —2021-06-24

#7: The Role of A Software Architect —2021-06-10

#6: Why should you deploy your code in smaller chunks and release software often? —2021-05-27

#5: How to choose what you should focus on next? The case of prioritization and decisions... —2021-05-13

#4: Deep Work, 1:1s, Estimations, Conflicts, Documentation, Protective Leadership —2021-04-29

#3: Effective 1:1s, DevOps, Atomic Habits, Staff Engineer & more —2021-03-28

#2 —2021-02-25

#1 —2021-01-28