I work at Affirm as a director of engineering.
- Unpacking Conway's Law
by allenc on 8/27/19, 3:11 AM, with comments
- Seniority, as a Measure to Increasingly Undefined Problems
by allenc on 4/8/19, 5:39 PM, with comments
- Power User af
by allenc on 12/11/18, 3:59 AM, with comments
- Separating Title, Responsibility, and Capability
by allenc on 8/20/18, 5:51 PM, with comments
- Scaling with Your Team
by allenc on 7/9/18, 7:30 PM, with comments
- Skills for Aspiring Engineering Directors
by allenc on 6/11/18, 5:41 PM, with comments
- The Role of a CS Education
by allenc on 4/23/18, 11:33 PM, with comments
- Recounting a 14-Year Career in Software, Part V
by allenc on 4/10/18, 6:01 AM, with comments
- Software Engineering Salaries Based on Capturing Business Value
by allenc on 2/12/18, 6:51 PM, with comments
- Principle of Singular Variability
by allenc on 12/4/17, 6:09 PM, with comments
- Buy vs. Build
by allenc on 11/20/17, 6:37 PM, with comments
- 3 Months into Meditating
by allenc on 10/23/17, 6:59 PM, with comments
- The Case for a Single 27“ 4K Work Monitor
by allenc on 10/2/17, 4:57 PM, with comments
- Providing Leadership Advice
by allenc on 9/5/17, 6:09 PM, with comments
- I Don't Want to Be a Manager
by allenc on 8/14/17, 8:57 PM, with comments
- The Cruel Startup Job Market
by allenc on 7/31/17, 4:50 PM, with comments
- Revisiting the Square IPO
by allenc on 6/5/17, 10:40 PM, with comments
- I Built My Own Financial Planning Spreadsheet
by allenc on 5/1/17, 5:35 PM, with comments
- How Lightweight Is a Lightweight Process?
by allenc on 3/6/17, 11:23 PM, with comments
- Revisiting the Tech Lead/Manager Role
by allenc on 2/13/17, 6:12 PM, with comments
- Breaking Down Team Organization
by allenc on 12/14/16, 6:10 PM, with comments
- How to Find a Good Manager
by allenc on 10/31/16, 5:53 PM, with comments
- An Era Hostile to Innovation
by allenc on 10/17/16, 5:41 PM, with comments
- You Don’t Deserve a House in the Bay Area
by allenc on 8/29/16, 10:00 PM, with comments
- The Race to Define the Most Important Technology in Cars
by allenc on 8/15/16, 5:04 PM, with comments
- The Folly of Stack Ranking and Measuring Impact
by allenc on 7/25/16, 6:02 PM, with comments
- The Greener Grass on the Management Side
by allenc on 6/2/16, 4:58 PM, with comments
- No Shortcuts to Software Development Experience
by allenc on 5/23/16, 5:33 PM, with comments
- Effective Communication Requires Traffic Engineering
by allenc on 5/16/16, 5:40 PM, with comments
- Software as a Core Competency
by allenc on 4/21/16, 7:48 PM, with comments
- Data Sync Not Invented Here
by allenc on 4/11/16, 5:26 PM, with comments
- Evernote → OneNote
by allenc on 4/5/16, 5:49 PM, with comments
- Transitioning to Management Is Trial by Fire
by allenc on 3/28/16, 5:35 PM, with comments
- Automatable Management
by allenc on 3/24/16, 5:32 PM, with comments
- Modular Agile Development
by allenc on 3/3/16, 6:23 PM, with comments
- Recognizing the Advantages of Small Groups
by allenc on 2/8/16, 5:58 PM, with comments
- Controlling Data in the Cloud
by allenc on 2/5/16, 6:32 PM, with comments
- Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Promotions
by allenc on 1/13/16, 6:40 PM, with comments
- You Want a Lower Valuation Joining an Established Startup
by allenc on 1/8/16, 7:01 PM, with comments
- The Speed of Mobile Is Too Fast for the Internet of Things
by allenc on 12/16/15, 5:12 PM, with comments
- Computer Literacy in a “Post-PC World”
by allenc on 12/7/15, 7:16 PM, with comments
- A Quick Thought on H1Bs and Profitability
by allenc on 12/4/15, 6:24 PM, with comments
- Bringing the Technological Hammer Down on Cars
by allenc on 11/16/15, 6:23 PM, with comments
- The Missing Gap Between College and Self-Taught Programming
by allenc on 11/11/15, 7:29 PM, with comments
- Reconciling Tech’s Lack of Progress with Its Disproportionate Influence
by allenc on 11/4/15, 6:07 PM, with comments
- It’s Hard to Think Rationally about Bigger Housing Numbers
by allenc on 10/30/15, 5:13 PM, with comments
- Learning Front-End Development, One Step at a Time
by allenc on 10/28/15, 5:14 PM, with comments