Articles on Success Frameworks

Five Books Every Effective Engineer Should Read and The Lessons They Teach

I love reading and read about 1-2 books a week. It’s nowhere near the volume that some of the world’s fastest readers have been able to soak up books – President Theodore Roosevelt was said to have read a book a day before breakfast during his two terms in the White House – but it’s a healthy rate that I work on maintaining and hopefully increasing over time. More than... (more)

Script for Success – What a Football Coach Can Teach Us About Engineering

It’s 3AM, and the phone rings. Generally, it’s never good news when someone calls you in the middle of the night. I reach for my phone and see an automated alert that quora.com is down. As inviting as the bed seems, every minute of delay means another minute that Quora users over the world are having problems reaching the website. I roll out of bed and head to my computer.... (more)

Don’t Let Indecision Make Choices for You

No reasonable person would have envied General Dwight Eisenhower’s position on the evening of June 4th, 1944. 160,000 troops awaited his command to mobilize onto the beaches of Normandy in what would be the largest amphibious assault in history. Military strategists had determined, after months of meticulous planning, a 3-day window that would maximize the chances of success for D-Day, but they had not planned for the evening’s stormy weather... (more)

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“A comprehensive tour of our industry's collective wisdom written with clarity.”

— Jack Heart, Engineering Manager at Asana

“Edmond managed to distill his decade of engineering experience into crystal-clear best practices.”

— Daniel Peng, Senior Staff Engineer at Google

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— Raffi Krikorian, Engineering Director at Uber

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