How to write.
Write a lot. This is alpha and omega of writing advice, the beginning and the end, and it's that way for a reason– I don’t know anyone who’s good writing who hasn’t also put in serious hours.
Simpler Machines
Making things well is inherently valuable
Don't be results-oriented
The alternative to results-oriented thinking is process-oriented thinking. With process-oriented thinking, your focus is on the quality of the decisions that produce the result – the part of the process that you can control, instead of the random variables that you don't control.
Management at Pivotal - Draft
Pivotal did a lot of things differently, but it did management really differently.
You don't have to guess to estimate
There are roughly three senses of "estimate." One is "a prediction of how much something will cost." One is "a guess." But another definition is a rough calculation.
Do you worship work?
Three book recommendations for thinking about getting meaning from work