I’ve developed a bit of a reputation inside and outside work as being pretty good with “saying no” and setting boundaries. In this post, I will help you do so, too.| Mike McQuaid
I’m currently working on an internal GitHub project where, for a change, my estimations have been wildly off. Before this project, I’d had a good multi-year streak of never overshooting my estimates and consistently hitting deadlines. This overshoot, combined with some recent reading, has made me think about hidden complexities of software estimation and what I didn’t consider when making my estimates. These are in a rough order from “most obvious” to “least obvious”.| Mike McQuaid
In 2020, GitHub promoted me from Senior to Staff Engineer. This title and role seems commonplace and well understood at some technology companies but unknown and unused at many others.| Mike McQuaid
In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.| Brené Brown