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This talk is a must see! Documentation is core engineering work. It's critical to developer velocity, code quality, and the reliability of services in production. You can't run globally distributed teams without it! Michelle Irvine now demonstrates this - with DATA!

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#InfoQDevSummit Boston is coming up in less than a month! Join us at Boston University on June 24-25 where I'll be talking about the evolution of front-end development at CarGurus. We'll take a deep dive into how a team of engineers evaluated the modern front-end framework ecosystem, and the challenges and successes we encountered while determining how best to approach our development needs in the current landscape. #IDSBoston #DevConference #SoftwareConference #BostonTech #CarGurus

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I'm honored to have collaborated with Nick Potkalitsky, PhD in discussing a realistic pedagogical future for middle school students whose educators are employing the Montessori Adolescent Guide imbued with AI capabilities (and VR). I highly encourage all educators to read this article in "Educating AI" to draw inspiration for infusing AI within your curricula as a tool! Thank you Nick for the opportunity to join our minds together and I look forward to future work together! #EdTech #EduTech #EducationTechnology #AIforEducation #Montessori #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

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I sat down with Reforge to talk about Sprig on Sprig 🌱 Check out some examples of how I use our product to make impact strategic & product decisions! In-app survey for product experience research: https://lnkd.in/g32rWs4s Process (and FigJam) used to audit a core user journey: https://lnkd.in/gqNQHHxq In-app survey to recruit beta testers: https://lnkd.in/ghmnzhA9

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Every day we hear about AI making rapid advances, and coming up with creative solutions which were unimaginable barely two year ago. My fellow (ex) Planning Comissioner, R "Ray" Wang is moderating a panel on how AI will impact the job market. ============================================== What does AI mean for parents and students in the college and job market? Join our own AI experts from Cupertino for a special community educational event and forum: Liangfang Chao, Ph.D. -Senior Software Engineer -Cupertino City Council Gopal Kumarappan - Head of Engineering at JP Morgan Chase Peter Chu (https://lnkd.in/gM9kQZJQ) - Managing Partner - AsiaTech Ventures Seema Swamy, Ph.D. - Executive Leader of Insights in Fortune 100 Company Moderated by R “Ray” Wang - CEO of Constellation Research - An Expert on AI, Web3, and software - An Author of Best-Selling Books Location: Community Hall, 10350 Torre Ave, Cupertino Time: 6/30, Sunday, 2-4 pm We'll ask questions such as: - Where are we in AI today? - What are the latest AI trends? - How will AI impact future career opportunities? - What should parents know about AI? - How will AI impact students? Must register here -

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I rarely post on LinkedIn, but I'm curious to find some folks to chat with about some ideas for an Enterprise Product Management product. My thesis is that the current suite of tools do not do a sufficient job providing features for managing sprawling, complex suites of products + product lines that mature tech organizations maintain. Most PM products are geared toward startups and smaller companies with simpler products, but few tools help PMs and other leaders manage the sprawling complexity of a situation like 30 products over 6 product lines, 14 industry solutions, and components from a dozen acquisitions. Let me know if you'd be down to chat for 20 minutes one day about it!

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Hi Friends! Emergent Works is an organization I volunteer for which helps formerly incarcerated individuals learn digital literacy, coding, and UI/UX design skills. With these skills mentees improve their employment prospects and reduces recidivism rates. I've been a mentor for a couple cohorts and have been able to see the positive impact EW has had on our mentees lives and careers. If this is a cause that resonates or sounds interesting to you and you'd like to help here are a few ways you can! - Donate some funds: We are raising funds for our Digitizing Dreamz fundraiser. Funds go directly to mentee stipends for their learning journey (laptops, metro cards, etc). This campaign will ensure successful programming and mentee support for the latter half of this year. For donations you can use this link: https://lnkd.in/eEu9CbbR - Donate your time, here are 2 ways how: 1. This Saturday June 1st there is a tech-a-thon here in NYC. If you're curious to see what EW is all about feel free to stop by even for just a little bit. See the event page for more details: https://lnkd.in/eVCwni9s 2. Consider being a mentor for a future cohort. The org is always looking for more mentors for our cohorts. Mentees can learn about a variety of topics such as frontend, backend or fullstack software engineering, UI/UX design, and digital literacy. If you are interesting in helping mentor in these skill sets let me know!

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Here's something counterintuitive; taking on more investment risk reduces long-term returns: https://lnkd.in/gHwkjHmP This is only my second investment video, so I'm still learning. If you have any feedback, I would love to hear it. Based on the feedback from the first video, I tried to make the audio more balanced on this video. I also shortened the length, to make the content more digestible.

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Quality Over Quantity is always a good rule.

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💡 Working Smarter is a new podcast from Dropbox about how AI is changing the way we work and get stuff done—not in the future, but today. 🤖 On our first episode, hear robotics expert Kate Darling talk about how to think about our relationship with our machines. Click to listen below!

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Thoughts from the job-search dystopia: If I omit my individual contributor experience from my resume I get auto-rejected (current record: 8 minutes) for not having experience in things I did back when I was an IC. 😢 If I include my individual contributor experience about a third of corporate job sites time out trying to parse my resume. 😡 If only there were a professional role -- a vocation, if you will -- where someone with a lot of software engineering experience taught and mentored and guided people with considerably less experience around the most common stumbling blocks in the development of complex systems: stumbling blocks like "performance" and "user stories" and "edge cases." 🤯 I'd say these companies should hire me but I find myself unable to apply for mysterious reasons.... Note: If you're looking at my resume in your hiring system, you are not the problem and I apologize for burdening you with my rant.

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🚀 Understanding Hick’s Law in Product Management 🚀 Have you ever felt stuck choosing between too many options? That’s Hick’s Law at play! Learn how simplifying choices can dramatically improve user experience in my latest Medium article. In this article, I dive into: How to make sign-up processes smoother 📝 Streamlining UIs for better usability 💻 Prioritizing what really matters to users ⭐ Strategies to prevent information overload ⚖️ Let’s keep it simple and effective! Discover the power of Hick’s Law and how it can transform your product management approach. #ProductManagement #UXDesign #HicksLaw #UserExperience #Simplicity #DesignPrinciples

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Do you think you need to hire developers as w2 employees to build a highly-skilled, devoted and culturally aligned team? Let Blueprint show you otherwise. Here's how we're changing the game: 1️⃣ Unmatched Quality: Quality is our creed. Our vetting process includes interviewing with former CTOs and senior software engineers, ensuring only top-tier talent makes it to your team. 2️⃣ Long-Term Commitment: Forget the turnover and churn worries! Our developers stay longer than industry norms for W2 developers (average tenure of 2.2 years), providing stability and continued expertise to your projects. 3️⃣ Cultural Integration: Culture isn't just an add-on for us. We dive deep to understand your core values and ensure every developer we match with your team enhances and embraces your company culture. 4️⃣ Equity is Optional: Save your cap table for your growing startup! We ensure that our developers are passionate believers in your product right from the start - without incentivizing them with equity. We rigorously test for craftsmanship, ensuring they value not just a quality end result but also the journey of creation. 🌟 Shoot us a DM to connect and see how we can improve your staffing strategy. #StaffAugmentation #InnovationInStaffing #TechTalent #CultureFit #LongTermGrowth

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NEED Your help!!! FORGE is definitely the future for so many students. It have helped my both daughters and many more kids to grow, explore, find the hidden talent in them as well as build the confidence within themselves. In order to keep it running please donate whatever you could. Donate today and be a part of our journey! https://lnkd.in/eyjCi73S The Forge Initiative is an Open Innovation Tech Space that strives to make technology and innovation accessible to people of all ages. The Forge hosts camps, robotics teams for different ages, and overall creates a community of learners. The Forge is more than just a non-profit or an extracurricular activity for me—it’s a second home. It’s a place where I’ve learned countless new skills, become a mentor, and grown as a person. The Forge has not only impacted me but thousands of others, making their lives better. We have visited people all around North Carolina, bringing STEM to underserved areas, community events, schools, libraries, companies, and more. The Forge is raising the next generation of CEOs, innovators, and changemakers. However, The Forge was hit hard by the pandemic, and we’ve been struggling financially ever since. Now, with our lease ending soon, we're facing a critical challenge. Two weeks ago, we launched a 5-week fundraiser to raise $250,000. This money would allow us to move into a new space and continue impacting the community. I want to do everything in my power to ensure that The Forge continues its positive impact. My family has set up our fundraiser to support the Forge’s goal. I would appreciate it if you could donate. Please consider making a difference and contributing to the next generation of STEM leaders. #lifelonglearning #theforgeinitiative #TFI #STEM #openinnovationtechspace #supporttheforge #forgestories #community #STEAM #omgrobots #technology #makerspace #fablab #maker #innovaters

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It's hard to choose the right code reviewers. I just read the research paper below, detailing persistent gender inequities in who reviews code. In short: examining code reviews at Google over one three month period, the authors found that women were sent about 25% fewer reviews than men. The number is closer to 16% when accounting for factors like whether the person is actively writing code or whether they kept their job for the entire period. Even shorter: Coders send women fewer code reviews than they send to men. In my experience, this is only one part of a general problem with assigning code reviewers. As a team lead, I typically wanted code reviewers to be assigned so that: 1) The code ends up getting a good review. Reviewing is a skill, and some people are better at it than others. A good review has to be gracious, provide both positive and constructive feedback, and have a reasonable turnaround time. You also want thoughtful - ideally diverse - ideas and feedback. 2) More than one person on the team understands the code. You need this so that code can be maintained when one person is unavailable. 3) The code reviews are evenly distributed through the team. The good reviewers are often in high demand. But they can get bogged down with too many reviews. And you don't get to be a good reviewer unless you get some practice first. Like I said, that's what I wanted. In reality, these goals can be hard to reconcile. If you have one person writing a subsystem, and you really want someone else on the team who understands that subsystem, then you often have to pick a single person to do all of the reviews. That makes it hard to distribute reviews evenly. If you have someone who is a relatively new hire, and you absolutely need the best review possible, you may not give that hire a lot of reviews. That makes even distribution hard. And that's not even counting the stresses of having to worry about this while you juggle product deadlines and complicated personalities! As a result, teams tend to fall into very bad review assignment habits. There's the TL who is overwhelmed because they try to do everyone's code reviews. There's the expert who has a week-long turnaround time, but you *absolutely* need their review. There's that one developer who needs to be reminded every single day that they have pending code reviews. The article suggests automated reviewer selection tools that apply round-robin strategies can help deal with bias problems. They absolutely can - but those strategies just can't account for the human aspects of the review. My take is that code review is a bit like bug assignment - you need to assign reviewers for project code as thoughtfully as you assign the project itself. It's not something that can completely be done by a given developer in a vacuum - but it's also not a problem that a tool can solve by itself. https://lnkd.in/gTDxAhpG

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