Job Desciption yêu cầu những skills gì mà bạn thấy thú vị
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One you 're producing result, few people will complain about declined meetings, slow email response times, non-urgent bugs not being fixed

When you get the important things right, the small things often dont' matter

Preserve larger blocks of focused time in your schedule

Nếu mà có việc không quan trọng, người nhờ vả, thì nói họ mình sẽ vui lòng làm trước hoặc sau khi mình break giữa các block

Example:
If it's right after dinner, then I ll watch a lecture on Android development

Filling the gap

If I only have 20 minutes before my next activity, then I will do _____

code review, writing interview feedback, responding to emails, small bugs, writing a isolated unit test

A common pitfall for many engineers is neglecting to revisit those priorities

Có thể kết hợp với routine khác, ví dụ tới quán cf take away và dành 10' để prioritize

How can I improve?

How could I done this better?

What should I learn next to best prepare me for the future

Continous Deployment is primary advantage is risk reduction

"I found that almost successful people write a lot of tools. A very good indicator of future success was if the first thing someone did on a problem was to write a tool"

Bobby Johson, former Facebook Director of Infrastructure Engineering

If you have to do something manually more than twice, then write a tool for the third time

Raffi Krikorian, former VP of Platform Engineering at Twitter

Start small.

Find an area where a tool could save time build it and demostrate its value

Learn at least one productive, high-level programing language

Dùng testing tool chạy subtest of tests mà liên quan đến chỗ sửa code thôi

build những bản prototype, xin ý kiến họ (hoặc những người thường xuyền làm việc với họ). Đừng để hoàn thành mới submit thì dễ có khả năng k đúng ý

It 's worth asking yourself

is there some way to measure the progress of what i m doing?

If a task i m working on doesnt move a core metric, is it worth doing?

Consider these:

Hours worked per week ___ vs. ___ Productivity per week

(ex. product quality, site speed, user growth)

Click through rates ___ vs. ___ Long click through rates

Average response time ___ vs. ___ 95th or 99th percentile response times

Registered users ___ vs. ___ Weekly growth rate of registerd users

Weekly active users ___ vs. ___ Weekly active rate by age of cohour

(Measure the fraction of users who are still weekly actives the nth week after signing up, and track how that number changes over time

Ví dụ từ tác giả
Đổi từ viết 3h/day sang 1000words/day để viết nhanh hơn, thay vì chỉ dành 3 tiếng liên tục revisit, rewrite thì vì tạo nội dung mới