53 // Career with swyx

Metamuse

Your career is more than just a way to earn a living—it's a foundation for leading the kind of life you want. Shawn joins Mark and Adam to talk about navigating the non-linear course of a career; whether to correct weaknesses vs investing in strengths; salary negotiation; brag documents; and how to create luck. Plus: the Spinal Tap scale for rating software engineers.

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Show notes

• Shawn Wang @swyx
• Temporal
• VBA, Haskell
• Fullstack Academy
• Two Sigma, Netlify
• rough notes on what’s missing in serverless
• Build in public, Personal brand
• Learn In Public
• zero-sum
• Elasticsearch, Typesense
• cron job
• Descript
• The Coding Career Handbook
• “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward”
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Never Split The Difference
• a leak in your poker game
• brag documents, Julia Evans
• recency bias
• Adam’s pitch to Berlin startups in 2014
• How to Create Luck
• luck surface area
• closed-form solution
• indie games, Braid
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You
• lifestyle design
• Kevin Kwok, P/E ratio, gravitas as a P/E ratio
• 10x developer
• Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat and their coding productivity
• “these go to eleven”