53 // Career with swyx

Your career is more than just a way to earn a living—it's a foundation for leading the kind of life you want. Shawn joins Mark and Adam to talk about navigating the non-linear course of a career; whether to correct weaknesses vs investing in strengths; salary negotiation; brag documents; and how to create luck. Plus: the Spinal Tap scale for rating software engineers. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Shawn Wang @swyx Temporal VBA, Haskell Fullstack Academy Two Sigma, Netlify rough notes on what’s missing in serverless Build in public, Personal brand Learn In Public zero-sum Elasticsearch, Typesense cron job Descript The Coding Career Handbook “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward” Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Never Split The Difference a leak in your poker game brag documents, Julia Evans recency bias Adam’s pitch to Berlin startups in 2014 How to Create Luck luck surface area closed-form solution indie games, Braid So Good They Can’t Ignore You lifestyle design Kevin Kwok, P/E ratio, gravitas as a P/E ratio 10x developer Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat and their coding productivity “these go to eleven”