Top 3: Elon Musk advice, types in JavaScript and how Google, Twitter, and Spotify work with documentation

Hello my friends.

Here's what I picked this week, enjoy!

1. What you give up when moving into engineering management​

TL;DR: What engineers give up when they become managers and what to do.

So what they give up:

1. Time for focused problem solving, because of frequent context switching
2. Short feedback loops, due to the fact that the result of your work is not visible as quickly as when you press cmd + s
3. Technical decision making (obvious)

2. An ECMAScript Proposal for Type Annotations in JavaScript​

TL;DR: Proposal to support type annotations directly in standard JavaScript code that are available for external type checkers to use but which are otherwise ignored at runtime.

Crazy and big news. Tell that to someone from 2015 and they'll laugh at you.

3. How Google, Twitter, and Spotify built a culture of documentation​

TL;DR: How Google, Twitter, and Spotify effectively work with technical documentation.

An article for those who are pissed off by how their team works with docs in Confluence.

Key takeaways:

• Everyone is too lazy to write documentation and many people think it’s not their job.
• To get people to start writing documentation, we need to (1) reduce the cognitive load to make it easier to get started, (2) standardize the writing process with templates and (3) make documentation an expectation through teaching and leading by example.

🦚 Tweet of the week

Elon Musk’s advice on how to learn anything from an old Reddit AMA.

Andrew Kuhn @FocusedCompound .@elonmusk’s advice on how to learn anything from an old Reddit AMA pic.twitter.com/XcRqM2bPk2 February 21st 2022 1,022 Retweets 11,283 Likes

That's all for this week, take care and have a great one!

– Nick

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