gershwin

Capital One | NYC, New York, NY | Onsite | Full-time

I'm looking for software engineers, designers, and product owners who want to join a brand new team at Capital One Labs to change the way this large company creates customer-facing retail bank features. We are going to change banking from the inside for good. If you'd like to join me, please contact me at gregory.mazurek@capitalone.com

Agreed. I hope that this involves empowering team leads to find best practices that work for their engineers.

Awesome. I've been inspired by Austin Kleon's Show Your Work! to find more ways to share our creative output and process with a wider community

I discover books through three sources:

1) New releases from publishers/editors/authors I like. If you like 3 books from one publisher, you're probably more likely to like another book from that publisher despite its topic. Same for editors. And, for authors although author releases are less frequent than editors which are less frequent than publishers.

2) Colleagues and friends. Word of mouth still seems to be the number one way people discover books. Ask your friends what they are currently reading. Hop over to GoodReads.com and see if you can find a network that reads genres similar to what you like.

3) Blogs/forums. We like to talk about what we're reading since that makes an otherwise rather solo activity more social. Search the personal/academic/company blogs for topics you like.

Finally, why not create a hacker news thread called "What are you currently reading?" :)

Fiction or non-fiction?

Have you given any thought to volunteering some of your time to teaching local kids or adults how to code?

Who is your target demographic? I think you need to reach out to that audience and iterate on your product to meet their needs.

Do what you think is the right thing to do. Any firm that doesn't hire you based on your decision is saving you the frustration of working with a group that doesn't match your ethics.

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Gregory Gershwin here. I've seen a few people use version control for technical books, but I haven't seen much for fiction yet. And for young adult fiction, I think the examples are slim to none. I'm hoping that opening this works encourages people to think about other ways of writing/telling stories.