Steve, a former Amazon principal engineer, writes about applying systems thinking to work and life, with a focus on Amazon's writing and reading culture and its decline in the AI era. The newsletter also promotes an accompanying podcast of career and AI interviews, with frequent sponsor and coaching plugs.
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A doctor writes practical essays on career growth, leadership, and mental wellbeing for medical professionals. Readers get frank, personal advice on influence without authority, navigating hierarchy, and the mind's need to create, consume and rest.
Weekly Spanish-language essays that use biographies, case studies and quotes to explore decision-making, career strategy and personal effectiveness. Readers get narrative-driven reflections and practical frameworks, including examples from the author's executive coaching work.
Perspectives offers personal essays that draw on the author's experience in tech, leadership and parenthood. Recent issues cover mentoring and career growth, the risk of outsourcing thinking to AI, and how expertise is built through apprenticeship.
The Coder Cafe, written by a Google software engineer, teaches fundamental software engineering concepts such as testing mental models, distributed judgment, and systems architecture through long, narrative essays. Issues blend clear explanations, historical anecdotes, and personal experience to help engineers build lasting skills that AI cannot easily replicate.
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