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Thanks, what about the management and leadership side? Do they test candidates on project management and people skills? If so, do you have any idea how to prepare for that?

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Any plans for extending the document?

What do you think are the best abstractions, mind models and technologies you learned at Google? I read somewhere about SSTables and several other topics related to writing distributed systems, can you share your take on this?

How easy is it to transition into a manager if you're an IC?

Congrats on the promotion, did you join Google as an L5?

Also, can you share more advice on the technical side, like what do you are the abstractions, mind models and technologies that you think are applicable outside of Google and would be worthy of studying?

Can you share more details? What advice would you give to people to engineer things at scale?

I use Pocketcasts - https://www.pocketcasts.com - and I really enjoy it. I go through the recommendation list a few times per week.

EDIT: link formatting.

I have hit a paywall, can someone add the list of extensions of here as a comment?

Can you recommend a few resources on idea history, hermeneutics and rhetoric?

- 45 mins of daily morning meditation[0]

- 3 hours/week of martial arts training

[0] With Each and Every Breath - https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/EachAndEveryBre...

Thank you!

This is excellent, thanks a bunch! I'd love to have that list, can you email it to me please? https://aalhour.com/contact

I am interested in these topics as well, can you share your top 5 resources besides Atomic Habits?

It depends on your experience, care to share more details about what are your qualifications and experiences like? What can you do if, say, you joined a company and you where responsible for a team or several teams?

If you are into studying textbooks, I recommend you take a look at the following article at LessWrong: The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...

Can you share more regarding what that mixed bag looks like? How did it change your life?

The mother of all cliff-hangers! :D What would be your top 25 books then?

Sweet! I will give that a try!

The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene. I know they are a bit dated by now, but when I read them they broadened my horizons and encouraged to review my religious standpoint from a scientific perspective.

Smaller self-managed groups (e.g. Tribes) are a better way for people to work and group together than bigger groups (i.e. countries).

The Ego is the Enemy is not a good book IMHO. It is a blog post repeated to fit into a book. The Obstacle is the Way is Ryan Holiday's good work.

Try to read "A Guide to the Good Life" or Epictetus's Enchiredion. Good stuff.

1) Never Split the Difference

Really, this book changed how I view communication and negotiation forever. It will definitely impact your life positively.

2) The Lean Startup

A classic, but worth re-reading. Everytime I read the book, it leaves a greater imprint on how I think.

3) The Obstacle is the Way

How to turn obstacles into solutions. This book is a great treatise on Stoicism via examples. I read the book at the start of the year which to mentally set the right tone for the months to follow. The book "coaches" the reader in the basic tenets of the Stoic philosophy by drawing examples from history and sports, by the end of the book you are left with a more intuitive and practical understanding of Stoicism than an academic one.

Aha, that's if you assume that you're applying for a position that you worked in before, but say you applied for a entry engineering management position and all you did before was develop software without leading anyone else. How should the interview go about from your perspective?

Thanks you! This is a really good outline. What is your take on system design questions that follow the "How would you design a Twitter-clone" vein? Do you think an open-ended question like that would show the interviewer your communication skills and good software design skills?

Fair enough. Let's say that the interview was scheduled for 3 hours in a time-window that suites you, how do you think the interviewing process and contents should be? What is a good way to showcase your strengths as an engineer?

Are you by any chance referring to "Brain Teaser" questions?

Ok, let's say the company proposes an on-site interview that would last 0.5-1 day, how would you like to be interviewed on that day?

How do you, from your own perspective, define a culture-fit? How would you like to be assessed on that metric?

Let's say you are interviewing for a managerial position, how would you like to be interviewed in a way that shows you can lead people?

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