How to become an expert in anything?

How to become an expert in anything?
12 minutes by Milan Milanović

Becoming an expert in software engineering or any other field isn't just about combining years of experience or learning the latest frameworks. Learn more about two essential frameworks: 4 Stages of Competence and Bloom's Taxonomy.

Tests are dead. Meticulous AI is here.
sponsored by Meticulous

Meticulous AI is a tool which automatically creates and maintains a continuously evolving e2e UI test suite that covers every corner of your application – with no developer intervention required whatsoever. Backed by CTO of GitHub, Guillermo Rauch (next.js author), yc and others, it's built from the Chromium level up with a deterministic scheduling engine – making it the only testing tool that eliminates flakes.

My Next Word to Retire is 'Prioritization'
4 minutes by Richard Mironov

Clear communication includes avoiding misunderstandings when we can. Words are tricky: their meanings evolve through usage and over time. And my attempts to get the world to use my precise definitions mostly fail. So speaking plainly can be a virtue.

Stop "Manage by Exception"
3 minutes by Yaniv Preiss

What is Manage by Exception? Why you should stop it? Managers get fixated on their direct reports’ weaknesses and judge everything based on them, instead of utilizing their strengths and improving them even further.

Building Aggressively Helpful Teams
4 minutes by Britton Broderick

A simple two part trick to build teams that collaborate early, and often.

Harvesting, Fishing, Panning for Gold
9 minutes by Stay Saasy

Here’s a framework for how I think about bucketing challenges into different categories, each with its own approach for solving them: Harvesting, fishing, and panning for gold.

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