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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Be Effective as an Engineer at Home

Technology has accelerated a trend which was already happening and it just really has kicked it into high gear. People who generally are self starters like to get up and they can put themselves to work, I do believe many people can practice that or get better at it over time. If you're waiting to be told to go do something, it's much faster, better, easier to go ask to get some information. The most critical skill is to pick up the phone more than you need to get given information in a lot of scenarios. And if you're able to kind of shift that mindset around, you likely are 80% of your way to being successful at remote.

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