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Here are the clickable links:

1.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10j_wA27aiRoOMP3DL9Tq...

2. https://littleblah.com/post/patterns_and_habits/

Sadly, it happens more often than you would think. I would suggest keeping your hopes up for other companies that you can apply to, taking whatever learnings you can from this process, and move on.

Definitely ask for feedback from the previous company. Most companies provide feedback as to what went wrong.

A little, yes.

Thanks for asking this question :)

Couple of them for me

1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database)

2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry):

https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check...

3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it for 9 months straight.

4. Finally, if all goes well, a baby on the way in our family!

Thanks. Somehow I failed to create clickable links :(

fair enough

Yup. That was my inspiration, and sadly, I have been on the side as well where things started from scratch, and ended up blowing up couple of months later.

yes!

Is it? I did not know, sorry.

`jq` is great. Initially, I started with excel, which I exported as csv, which using `jq` I converted to JSON.

Why json and not csv? Strictier parsing by javascript.

To add to this, I found these resources great:

1. https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

2. https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/

While I agree to certain extent, you still have these things in different shapes and sizes. Startup teams are a tight knit community in my experience, but as it scales, these aspects start to show their heads.

> Politics is the art of making other people want the things that you want.

I would say tactical negotiation and leveraging personal connect is healthy, but manipulation for personal gains at the cost of a larger good is what is my definition of "politics".

I have seen couple of managers in my career who, while were poor managers based on employee voice surveys in the company, ended up with large charters due to being good at politics/"rubbing backs". I want to say that end result was they screwed it up since their directs ended up leaving their team, but in reality, they thrived despite losing folks and not delivering projects, again due to politics. As an engineer, I failed to appreciate that.

Definitely. Thanks for pointing out the gaps. I will revisit this list in some time, and make changes based on feedback. If you can, feel free to contribute through the shared github link.

Thanks. "fall back to first principals" is inspired by this post:

https://jamesclear.com/first-principles

Thanks. Its "even" theme on hugo.

https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-even/

Sorry about that. Thanks for pointing out the gaps. I will revisit this list in some time, and make changes based on feedback. If you can, feel free to contribute through the shared github link.

Thanks!

Thanks.

I will revisit this list in some time, and make changes based on feedback. If you can, feel free to contribute through the shared github link.

Something that I have been working on for my own use, but can be helpful to you:

https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check...