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A collection of links from this notebook

• $3 million dollars on a website project and still fail - The Stakeholder's Guide to Working with Developers

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy - Engineering Management Reading

• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Engineering Management Reading

• Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century - Engineering Management Reading

• Badass: Making Users Awesome - Engineering Management Reading

• Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys - Engineering Management Reading

• Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business - Engineering Management Reading

• Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice - Engineering Management Reading

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High - Engineering Management Reading

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Engineering Management Reading

• Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Customers - Engineering Management Reading

• Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - Engineering Management Reading

• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Engineering Management Reading

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Engineering Management Reading

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Engineering Management Reading

• Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used - Engineering Management Reading

• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Engineering Management Reading

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - Engineering Management Reading

• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Engineering Management Reading

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Engineering Management Reading

• HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers - Engineering Management Reading

• High Output Management - Engineering Management Reading

• How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody - Engineering Management Reading

• How to Read a Book - Engineering Management Reading

• How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - Engineering Management Reading

• Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact - Engineering Management Reading

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Engineering Management Reading

• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products that People Love - Engineering Management Reading

• Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics - Engineering Management Reading

• Meditation for Mortals - Engineering Management Reading

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Engineering Management Reading

• Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter - Engineering Management Reading

• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Engineering Management Reading

• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - Engineering Management Reading

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships - Engineering Management Reading

• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace - Engineering Management Reading

• Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success - Engineering Management Reading

• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters - Engineering Management Reading

• Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less - Engineering Management Reading

• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love - Engineering Management Reading

• Solving Product: Reveal Gaps, Ignite Growth, and Accelerate Any Tech Product with Customer Research - Engineering Management Reading

• Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions - Engineering Management Reading

• Stuck? Diagrams Help - Engineering Management Reading

• The 48 Laws of Power - Engineering Management Reading

• The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results - Engineering Management Reading

• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Engineering Management Reading

• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever - Engineering Management Reading

• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) - Engineering Management Reading

• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - Engineering Management Reading

• The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management - Engineering Management Reading

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Engineering Management Reading

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Engineering Management Reading

• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You - Engineering Management Reading

• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results - Engineering Management Reading

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Engineering Management Reading

• The Systems Bible - Engineering Management Reading

• The Uncertainty Mindset: Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food - Engineering Management Reading

• Thinking in Systems - Engineering Management Reading

• Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life - Engineering Management Reading

• Value-Based Fees: How to Charge What You're Worth and Get What You Charge - Engineering Management Reading

• Why Design is Hard - Engineering Management Reading

• You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work To Meaningful Impact - Engineering Management Reading

• /r/churning - Personal Finance

• /r/thetagang wiki - Options Trading

• 11ty template shortcodes - Tufte Integration

• 16x9 - Design Resources

• 30x500 - Product Design Principles

• 4 kinds of documentation AKA The Documentation System - Evergreen Links

• 4 Types of Documentation - Documentation

• 401k loan - 401k Valuation

• @palm_beach_m on Twitter - Personal Finance

• \Writing Tips From Amazon: - Writing Rules

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Foster Passions with Rigor

• A big little idea called legibility - Legibility

• A complete guide to Flexbox - CSS Tricks - Css

• a free course from Google on Udacity - Accessibility

• a wandering mind is an unhappy mind - Foster Passions with Rigor

• A web for everyone book - Accessibility

• A11ycasts - Accessibility

• Absolute Success is Luck, Relative success is skill - James Clear - Luck

• Accessibility Inspector - Accessibility

• Accessibility on Frontend Masters - Accessibility

• Actions Produces Information - Common Cog - Prolific Creation

• Aeon - Information Diet

• After The Future - Indie Mindset

• AlexJS - Writing Rules

• An Expert Called Lindy - Lindy

• An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo, CommonCog - Deliberate Practice

• Andy Matushack's notebook - Note Style Guide

• Andy's Matuschak's Working Notes - Digital Garden

• ARIA Practices - Accessibility

• Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils(and Rewards) of Artmaking - Quality of Pots vs. Quantity of Pots

• Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style - Writing Book Recommendations

• Article: Workshops as Portals - Workshops

• Asterisk - Information Diet

• Basic Concepts - Lindy - Lindy

• Bobby Tables - A guide to preventing SQL Injection - Security

• Book: Shape Up - Workshops

• Borderland Gun Collector's Club - Game Design

• broken links - Evergreen Notes

• Calculus of Grit - Ribbonfarm - Prolific Creation

• Characteristics of useful comments (study) - Effective Code Review Practices

• Coinbase - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• Command + K bars - Product Design Principles

• CommonCog's Peak book summary - Deliberate Practice

• Commoncog - Information Diet

• crazy side projects - Prolific Creation

• Crowdstreet - Real Estate Investing

• CSS utility classes and separation of concerns - Evergreen Links

• Cultivating expertise by writing daily w/ Philip Morgan - Prolific Creation

• Customer Markdown components in 11ty - Tufte Integration

• CXL research studies - Design Resources

• CXL research studies - Using Data Effectively

• dangerouslySetInnerHTML - Security

• Data Viz Color Picker - Design Resources

• Deploys are the wrong way to change user experience - Links for Junior Devs

• Dev.to - Other Writing

• Devanooga - Prolific Creation

• Developer Hegemony - Above the Code

• Developer Hegemony - Above the Code

• Developer Hegemony - Organizational Literacy

• Diabetes - Lindy

• Directory of Digital Gardens - Digital Garden

• DIY framework - Consulting

• Diátaxis: A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring. - Engineering Management Reading

• do 100 thing - Visakanv - Prolific Creation

• Don't Call Yourself a Programmer - Above the Code

• Don't End The Week With Nothing - Patrick MacKenzie - Learn in Public

• Don't End The Week With Nothing - Patrick Mackenzie - Prolific Creation

• Don't end the week with nothing - Evergreen Links

• DRMacIver's Notebook - Digital Garden

• Dropbox - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• Dwight Schrute, Assistant to the regional manager - Token Economy

• Edward Tufte Books - Tufte Integration

• Effectual Reasoning: The Little Known Method Entrepreneurs Use to Figure Out What They Want - Taylor Pearson - Effectual Reasoning

• Ego Depletion - Wikipedia - Discipline

• Eleventy Garden - Digital Garden

• Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together - Retreat Reflection

• episode of the Complex Systems podcast with Patrick MacKenzie and Ricki Heicklen - Trade on Day One

• Erik Dietrich - Post Senior Dev Fork

• Essay Architecture: Dean's List - Information Diet

• etherscan - Ethereum

• everything is a remix - Digital Garden

• Fearsetting - Thought Exercises

• Figma for beginners series - Figma as a Strategic Thinking Tool

• flowchart link - Evergreen Links

• Foam - Digital Garden

• Foamy-NextJS - Digital Garden

• Foreign Objects - Squads

• Free course from Microsoft: Accessibility Fundamentals - Accessibility

• free online - Engineering Management Reading

• free online - Engineering Management Reading

• From the season summary - Prolific Creation

• Frontend Masters: JavaScript Accessibility - Accessibility

• Fuck you, pay me - Evergreen Links

• fugal - Tempo

• Fundrise - Real Estate Investing

• Gallery of Easing curves - Css Animation

• Games People Play - Eric Berne - Friendliness Reading List

• games people play - McLeod Hierarchy

• George R. R. Martin - Writing

• Github Awesome Code Reviews - Effective Code Review Practices

• groundfloor.com - Real Estate Investing

• growing as a senior engineer - Post Senior Dev Fork

• Half-Assing it with Everything You Got - Evergreen Links

• Halstead Complexity Measures - Complexity

• How can data science contribute to social good? A curated link list - Write of Passage Assignments

• How i won the lottery (tiny subversions) (video) - Evergreen Links

• How to build a personal monopoly by writing online - Write of Passage Reconstruction

• How to do Nothing (Kindle link) - Discipline

• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Freemium Leisure

• How to Improve Conversions With Activation & Intensification - Other Writing

• How to read a research paper quickly & effectively - Research

• How to Take Smart Notes - Why Write

• How to Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie - Friendliness Reading List

• Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t - Wired - Zeigarnik Effect

• I'm Ok You're Ok - Thomas A Harris - Friendliness Reading List

• images of organization - McLeod Hierarchy

• Images of Organization - Organizational Literacy

• Imgur - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre - Keith Johnstone - Friendliness Reading List

• Inclusive components - Accessibility

• Inclusive Design Patterns book - Accessibility

• Independent Scholar's Handbook - Research

• Is this you? No really, is this you? - Evergreen Links

• Itamar - Prolific Creation

• i’m ok you’re ok - McLeod Hierarchy

• Jason Reznick - Positioning

• Jeff Atwood's Blog - Quality of Pots vs. Quantity of Pots

• Jekyll Digital Garden Template - Digital Garden

• Joining Hypergrowth Startups - Career Strategy

• Joining hypergrowth startups - Evergreen Links

• Julian Shapiro - Writing

• Just Enough Research - Organizational Research

• Just Enough Research - Research

• Just Enough Research - Research

• Keeping Up with the Quants - Using Data Effectively

• Kevin Kelly's top 25 articles of all time (2010) - Information Diet

• Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010 - Foster Passions with Rigor

• Ladders of Wealth Creation - Evergreen Links

• Ladders of Wealth Creation - Thought Exercises

• Laugh, Kookaburra - Four Burners Theory

• Learn in Public - Swyx - Learn in Public

• learning to exercise agency - Note Style Guide

• lendingclub.com - Real Estate Investing

• Letter to a Young Songwriter - Visakanv - Prolific Creation

• link - Note Style Guide

• Link - Developer to Consultant

• link - Evergreen Memes

• LinkedIn's Alternate Universe - Evergreen Links

• List of Animatable CSS Properties - Css Animation

• list of REIT ticker symbols - Real Estate Investing

• List on animation properties - Css Animation

• Maggie Appleton - A brief history and ethos of the digital garden - Digital Garden

• Maggie Appleton - The Garden - Digital Garden

• Making the clackity noise - Evergreen Links

• Management Time: Who's got the monkey? - Evergreen Links

• Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? - Engineering Management Reading

• Marilyn Cole - Post Senior Dev Fork

• Marketing yourself & your products by learning in public w/ Shawn Wang - Prolific Creation

• Marketing Yourself Without Being a Celebrity - Personal Brand

• Medium - Other Writing

• mentalnodes.com - Digital Garden

• Mercury - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• MetaMask - Ethereum

• MIT Open Courseware - Introduction to statistics and probability - Using Data Effectively

• Moontower's Favorite Posts of Others - Information Diet

• Moonway - Developer to Consultant

• Nassim Taleb - Lindy

• Navigating Power & Status - Organizational Literacy

• Neilsen group - Design Resources

• Neilsen group - Using Data Effectively

• Neilsen usability heuristics - Product Design Principles

• Nerdwallet.com - Personal Finance

• Ness Labs - Getting Started With TiddlyWiki: A beginner's Tutorial - Digital Garden

• Neurodiversity Design System - Design Resources

• Neurodiversity design: list of the UX Laws - Design Resources

• Neurodiversity design - Design Resources

• Neuron - Digital Garden

• Never split the difference - Discipline

• New Software product questions - Workshops

• No Class CSS Frameworks - Design Resources

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships 1. Marshall B. Rosenberg, Deepak Chopra - Friendliness Reading List

• Not Even Wrong - Bullshit

• On Bullshit - Bullshit

• On Morgan Housel - Write of Passage Assignments

• On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue - Discipline

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction - Writing Book Recommendations

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King - Writing Book Recommendations

• one page design documents - Figma as a Strategic Thinking Tool

• optimizers vs satisficers - Choosing Cultivates Contentment

• original HN link - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• other inter.net - Squads

• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - Deliberate Practice

• Personal Branding for Chaotic People - Personal Brand

• Philip Morgan - Expertise

• Philip Morgan - Prolific Creation

• Photopea - Design Resources

• POP Writing - POP Writing

• possible sequences - Crossfit for Writing

• Production Ready - positioning yourself as a specialist w/ Austin Church - Positioning

• Production Ready - Quality of Pots vs. Quantity of Pots

• Prompt exploration database - Midjourney Prompts

• Prompt-engineering vs. Blind prompting - Prompt Engineering

• prosper.com - Real Estate Investing

• Psyche - Information Diet

• public notes about note-taking - Evergreen Notes

• Quarantine Work is Not Remote Work - Remote Work

• r/personalfinance prime directive - Evergreen Links

• Radical Candor - Kim Scott - Friendliness Reading List

• randori - Deliberate Practice

• Recommended Net Worth Allocation Mix by Age and Work Experience - Financial Samurai - Asset Allocation

• Reducing Redux boilerplate with Redux-Leaves - Other Writing

• Ribbonfarm is retiring - Digital Garden

• Rietta - Developer to Consultant

• Roam - Capture vs Retrieval

• Robinhood - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• Rollover IRA - 401k Valuation

• Rubato - Tempo

• Running on Empty No More - Jonice Webb - Friendliness Reading List

• Running On Empty - Friendliness Reading List

• Sarah Constantin Public Roam - Digital Garden

• Seeing Like a State - Legibility

• Sendgrid - The Stakeholder's Guide to Working with Developers

• Seth Godin - Personal Finance

• Shape Up - Shaping

• Shawn Wang - Prolific Creation

• Shippers Only - Squads

• Shipping dozens of websites w/ Ryan Maynard - Prolific Creation

• Shopify - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• site - Ethereum

• Skrollr - Css Animation

• So you wanna de-bog yourself - Evergreen Links

• Soft Surplus - Squads

• Source - Cult of Done Manifesto

• Source - Developer to Consultant

• source - Evergreen Memes

• Squad Wealth - Squads

• Squads - The Cure for Indie Isolation - Squads

• Squarespace - The Stakeholder's Guide to Working with Developers

• State Transition - Writing as Social Practice

• Steven Pressfield - The Amateur and the Professional

• Stop Glossing Over the Good Stuff: How to Be More Positive - Evergreen Links

• Story of how an article & talk directly led to client work. - Why Write

• Storyworthy - Humor

• Stretto - Tempo

• Summary: The Intelligent Asset Allocator - Asset Allocation

• Surfing the Edge of Chaos - Working Identities

• Surfing the Edge of Chaos - Action Produces Information

• Swizec Teller - Post Senior Dev Fork

• Swyx note on friendcatchers - Writing as Social Practice

• Swyx - Learn in Public

• taste is the new intelligence - Information Diet

• Taylor Pearson - 7 Essays that will help you succeed in internet business - Write of Passage Assignments

• Tech brain - Evergreen Links

• Tempo - Writing

• That's Interesting - Species of Interesting Ideas

• The 13 immutable reads for choosing what to work on - Write of Passage Assignments

• The Art of Gig - Consulting

• The Associated Press Stylebook - Writing Book Recommendations

• The Best of Ben Thompson - Packy McCormick - Write of Passage Assignments

• The best of Nick Maggiull - Write of Passage Assignments

• The Building Blocks of Business - Other Writing

• The CTO’s Hidden Notebook - Engineering Management Reading

• The domestic trauma and horror of Ari Aster - Write of Passage Assignments

• The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives - Using Data Effectively

• The Elements of Style - Writing Book Recommendations

• The Four Burners - Four Burners Theory

• The Four Pillars of Investing - Asset Allocation

• The Gervais Principle - Evergreen Links

• The Gervais Principle - Organizational Literacy

• The Great Online Game - The Great Internet Game

• The Lindy Newsletter - Lindy

• the more we feel behind - Choosing Cultivates Contentment

• The Mythical Man-Month - Adages

• The Noun Project - Design Resources

• the organization man - McLeod Hierarchy

• The Organization Man - Organizational Literacy

• The Pleasures of Probability - Using Data Effectively

• the redemptive self - McLeod Hierarchy

• the science - Expertise

• The Seasons of a Man's Life - Working Identities

• The Secret Skills of Productive Programmers w/ Itamar Turner-Truaring - Prolific Creation

• The step-by-step guide to go from Novice to Expert in Any Skill - Nat Eliason - Expertise

• the thing about burnout - Burnout

• The Uncertainty Mindset - Working Identities

• The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster - Engineering Management Reading

• The visual revolution in knowledge work - Figma as a Strategic Thinking Tool

• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles - Resistance

• The War of Art - Writing Book Recommendations

• The wrong abstraction - Evergreen Links

• The wrong abstraction - Links for Junior Devs

• The Year Without Pants - Prolific Creation

• Thinking in Public - Tom Critchlow - Learn in Public

• this article - Note Style Guide

• this comment on Reddit - Developer to Consultant

• This sentence has five words - Writing Book Recommendations

• Thread Link - Developer to Consultant

• Thread on relearning discipline after brain trauma - Maria Goldberg - Discipline

• Tom Critchlow - Building a Digital Garden - Digital Garden

• Tom Critchlow - Thread of Digital Garden Ideas - Digital Garden

• Tom Critchlow on learning in public - Writing as Social Practice

• Tom Critchlow on Riffs, not essays - Writing as Social Practice

• Tom Critchlow Wikifolder - Digital Garden

• Tom Critchlow - Developer to Consultant

• Tom Critchlow - Prolific Creation

• Tool for drawing cubic-bezier curves in browser - Css Animation

• Trading Options Greeks - Options Trading

• Tufte CSS - Tufte Integration

• Tufte.css on Github - Tufte Integration

• TufteCSS - Digital Garden

• Turn GIF to Sprite Sheet - Css Animation

• Turning Pro - The Amateur and the Professional

• Twitter Thread of examples - Why Write

• Twitter - Ethereum

• Uncertainty Mindset - Book - Uncertainty Mindset

• Uncertainty Mindset - Substack - Uncertainty Mindset

• Unlearning toxic code review behaviors - Effective Code Review Practices

• Unsplash - Design Resources

• Visa's Memex - Figma as a Strategic Thinking Tool

• Visakanv's Open Roam Database - Digital Garden

• Visakanv - Prolific Creation

• Vitalik Buterin, about.me - Ethereum

• WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices - Accessibility

• WCAG20 - Accessibility

• Wealthfront - Developers Undervalue Ease-of-Use

• What Color is Your Parachute? - Working Identities

• What do you Say After You Say Hello? - Eric Berne - Friendliness Reading List

• what do you say after you say hello - McLeod Hierarchy

• What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Understand About Risk - Risk

• What the heck, z-index? - Josh Comeau - Css

• when action beats prediction - Effectual Reasoning vs. Causal Reasoning

• When it makes sense to use Redux - Article Ideas

• Where to find media to consume instead of doomscrolling - Information Diet

• Why blacksmiths are better at startups than you - Evergreen Links

• Why I Write - James Clear - Why Write

• Wikipedia Entry - Token Economy

• Wikipedia Link - Storytelling

• Wikipedia - Ethereum

• working for yourself - Indie Mindset

• Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career - Working Identities

• Writing Publicly - Philip Morgan - Expertise

• X Thread about the process - Crossfit for Writing

• X - Adages

• XIX Collective - Squads

• XXIIVV wiki - Digital Garden

• Yak Collective Roam Database - Squads

• Yak Collective Roam - Digital Garden

• Yak Collective - Developer to Consultant

• Yak Collective - Squads

• You are not your Job Title - Indie Mindset

• You are not your job title - Links for Junior Devs

• You blow my mind hey Mickey! - Evergreen Links

• Youtube - Evergreen Memes