It’s Yom Kippur today, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. 50 years ago Yom Kippur was on a Saturday, and my dad wad 20 years old. He was a scrawny, nerdy kid from Haifa who liked to play piano, with square glasses and thick 70s hair, and on that…

Take-home assignments, tests, and even projects have become a central part of the engineering interview process. You might like them, you might hate them, you might not really care, but you’ll probably encounter them if you look for a job as an engineer. This post is not here to tell…

10 years ago this month I moved to the US. I wanted to write a bit of a summary about what it’s been like, being away from home for a decade. Nothing more. The pain of leaving home comes in waves. It starts with a big wave of fear and…

This weekend a small storm hit tech Twitter (as happens most weekends) when a VC named Shekhar Kirani posted a long thread about 10x engineers, how great they are, and how to identify them. If you’re looking for a laugh you can definitely check the thread out, but it is…