teaching

I’ve taught many people, including my 8yo and a whole bunch of co-workers, how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. Since then, he has claimed @rubikscubegod on Instagram and Youtube, and h...

My QCon 2014 talk Mentoring Engineers and Humans.

I get this question a lot. I turned to my friends, HN and Twitter for some advice.

I gave a talk yesterday at the Flatiron School about the interviewing and hiring process for Engineers at Artsy and beyond. This focuses primarily on explaining to juniors, ie. ...

“Wednesday night’s American Horror Story: Coven delivered an interesting theory on youth culture: Millennials are actually dead inside.” I’m quoting Bustle’s article, which quot...

This year my colleagues at Artsy created a formal fellowship program. We went out to many US colleges to recruit some of the brightest seniors. From thousands of applications we...

I visited a friend who lives in a remote, tropical region of the United States. He’s a doctor and a practicing eye surgeon. The island has both the very rich and the extremely p...

A resume is what you did, it’s not who you are.

I had a short, but lively debate over code reviews with @skamille at New York’s QCon 2012. That same day she wrote an interesting blog post on code reviews. She argues that “cod...

I want to talk about your scope of influence as a Software Engineer and how to expand it.

My family counts many teachers. My grandparents were teachers, my father started as a school English teacher and is now a University professor. My wife changed her successful ca...

My class sold out tonight with over 40 people attending. If you were there, thank you so much! It’s really rewarding to have an engaged audience where nobody even moved when Bra...

I’m teaching a class at General Assembly on April 20th.