Tag: lessons-learned

All the articles with the tag "lessons-learned".

• Reflections on my Amazon Career

  Published:Jun 3, 2022

  |4 min read

  What four years at Amazon taught me about starting with customer problems, owning the outcome, and making time to keep learning.

• My Path to Software Engineering

  Published:Dec 9, 2019

  |3 min read

  From Starcraft maps to film school and post-production, the detours that led me back to software engineering.

• Submitting a Patch to CPython

  Published:Aug 3, 2014

  |2 min read

  An experiment with UUID performance led me to submit a CPython patch. The benchmarks, proposed change, and steps I followed to contribute.

• 7 Lessons Learned from Teaching My Brother to Program

  Published:Jun 10, 2014

  |4 min read

  Teaching my brother to program over weekend Skype calls taught me to keep projects simple, let him own the work, and make room for mistakes.