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A Gift for Your Future Self
A Simple Exercise to Reshape Your Coming Year
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Steve Huynh
The Expert's Curse: When Expertise Becomes Your Blind Spot
Why Being a Beginner Might Be Your Secret Superpower
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Steve Huynh
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You're Testing in Production With Your Career
The uncomfortable truth about how successful people actually improve
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Steve Huynh
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Three Times I Thought I Was Failing (But Was Actually Learning)
Here are three failures that felt terrible at the time but turned out to be critical to my success.
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Steve Huynh
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November 2024

The Rise of the Nerd Athlete
Unlike traditional athletes, every dollar you make will be because of your brain.
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Steve Huynh
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Feedback Loops for Career Success
Critical feedback is an amazing gift, don't squander it
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Steve Huynh
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The 'Competing Priorities' Trap: Why Important Work Never Gets Done
A simple calendar exercise that reveals what we're really avoiding
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Steve Huynh
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The Time I Became A Manager - A Senior Principal Engineer's Story
Kun spent a couple years as an engineering manager at Meta before becoming an IC again.
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Steve Huynh
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October 2024

Mid To Staff Engineer In Two Years By Job Hopping
How an SDE-II at Amazon got two promotions by hopping jobs in just two years.
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Steve Huynh
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On When To Scale
It's never clear cut when you should scale in advance or if you ain't gonna need it.
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Steve Huynh
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Start Your New Year’s Resolutions Now
Don't wait for the new year. Start now.
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Steve Huynh
A European Developer Journey In Big Tech
With so much focus on the US, there's a lot of opportunity in Europe-if you can find it.
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Steve Huynh
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Nicola Amadio
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