My Top 23 Favorite Articles from my 350+ Reads in 2023

I've read 350+ articles in 2023, mostly (300+) technical articles about Engineering Management & Engineering and some about Career, Leadership, Financial Freedom, Psychology & Writing.

Here are My 23 Favorites based on the number of insights I gained from them ranked according to the most influential writers of the year for me:

1?? Will Larson

??2023 Favorite: Meetings for an Effective Eng Organization. (41 Highlights)

2?? Charity Majors

??2023 Favorite: Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become an Engineering Manager? (43 Highlights)

3?? David Anderson

??2023 Favorite: My Missed Career Opportunities, or Why I'm Not an SVP (18 HLs)

4?? Isabel Unraveled

??2023 Favorite: Why I Write. (23 HLs)

5?? Molly Graham

??2023 Favorite: 10 Things I Wish I Knew About Careers When I Started (36 HLs)

6?? Fabio A.

??2023 Favorite: Rant: Aprendizado Na Beira Do Caos (Learning on the Edge of Chaos English Translation) (41 HLs)

7?? Gergely Orosz

??2023 Favorite: Real-World Engineering Challenges #8: Breaking Up a Monolith (34 HLs)

8?? Tanya Reilly

??2023 Favorite: Having Impact in Engineering by Supporting Other People's Ideas (18 HLs)

9?? Megan Greenwell

??2023 Favorite: Interview with Megan Greenwell: “I prefer a bit of a commute to get me in the writing zone.” (18 HLs)

1??0?? ?? Luca Rossi

??2023 Favorite: Good Strategy / Bad Strategy ?? (11 HLs)

1??1?? Louie Bacaj

??2023 Favorite: M&Ms: America Is Antifragile

1??2?? Ravi Mehta

??2023 Favorite: What’s Your Shape? A Product Manager’s Guide to Growing Yourself and Your Team (19 HLs)

1??3?? Gil Tene

??2023 Favorite: #LatencyTipOfTheDay: Q: What's wrong with this picture? A: Everything!

1??4?? Shreyas Doshi

??2023 Favorite: Advanced Time Management Principles (that was actually a pretty long twitter thread)

1??5?? Juan Pablo Buriticá

??2023 Favorite: From Good to Great: A Capability Framework for Building Exceptional Product Engineering Teams

1??6?? Allan Leinwand

??2023 Favorite: Six Tips for Staying Technical as a CTO

1??7?? Justin Rushing

??2023 Favorite: Client Tracing: Understanding Mobile and Desktop Application Performance at Scale (31 HLs)

1??8?? Jorge Mazal

??2023 Favorite: How Duolingo Reignited User Growth (12 HLs)

1??9?? Emily Nakashima

??2023 Favorite: On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP & Part 2: Doing the Job (46 HLs)

2??0?? Felipe Hummel

??2023 Favorite: The Value of Canonicity (19 HLs)

2??1?? Yossi Kreinin

??2023 Favorite: People Can Read Their Manager's Mind (19 HLs)

2??2?? Alejandro Rodriguez

??2023 Favorite: My Transition From Native iOS Developer to Being Able to Face Any Challenge (16 HLs)

2??3?? Adam Tornhill

??2023 Favorite: Brooks's Law - Software Project Management (13 HLs)

BONUS: 2??4?? Suman Karumuri

??2023 Favorite: Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs (21 HLs)

BONUS: 2??5?? Alex Ewerl?f

??2023 Favorite: We Invested 10% to Pay Back Tech Debt; Here's What Happened

BONUS: 2??6?? Michael Natkin

??2023 Favorite: Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech

Alright, that is it! My Top 23 Picks from my 350+ Reads in 2023 Ranked by Insight & Influence. And, as many of you asked, see below the link to a version of my own Google Sheets with all the articles I read in 2023 & 2022.

• ?? Google Sheets: My 350+ Reads in 2023 on Engineering Management, Career, Leadership, Financial Freedom, Psychology...

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