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Camille Fournier
Personal blog · skamille.medium.comcareerprogrammingproductivity
Camille Fournier's personal blog at skamille.medium.com covers career, programming and productivity. Since 2021, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “The Senior Shortcut”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- The Senior Shortcut4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-15
- An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-06-06
- Why is it so hard to decide to buy?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-01
- Founders Create Managers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-03
- Avoiding the Rewrite Trap2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-02
- Platform Engineering Beyond CFEngine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-03
- The Senior Shift: It’s now about your impact, not just your abilities2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-16
- OPP (Other People's Problems)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-22
- Structural Lessons in Engineering Management2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-16
- The Next Larger Context2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-05
What Hacker News says?
Camille Fournier: the manager's path Eye-opener (worst take away / for me - you can't be friends with devs-under-you anymore. Or with anyone techie it seems. Probably depends on company-founders' culture - if small and new - or politics - if older and/or bigger) some more of hers here: https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-sen... Also.. you can't be everything. Choose your poison (or if it has bee…
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on “Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?”Submitted An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding as a story · 821 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing this! I'm sure your team will benefit from the clarity with which you outlined your values and working style. Camille Fournier wrote a piece on "manager READMEs" that, if nothing else, is worth considering. I'm less opinionated about the practice, but I definitely am glad I read her article: https://skamille.medium.com/i-hate-manager-readmes-20a0dd9a7...
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on “How to work with me”Submitted Make Boring Plans as a story · 183 points
HN discussionSome people are inherently unhappy but also keep an eye out for unhappiness caused by misalignment, misunderstanding, or disengagement relating to feelings of disempowerment. Compensation is important up to a point but nobody likes feeling like they are wasting their time and powerless to make positive change. > No one likes to do Oncall or operational or migration work or deal with mess left by earlier group. No on…
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on “Engineering Management”Submitted An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSo many - I'm going to share a few that come to mind quickly, rather than agonizing over picking the best possible results. Tim Bray: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/ Tom MacWright: https://macwright.com/ Jacob Kaplan-Moss: https://jacobian.org/ Lea Verou: https://lea.verou.me/ Will Larson: https://lethain.com/featured/ Camille Fournier: https://skamille.medium.com/ Haki Benita: https://h…
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on “Ask HN: What are the blogs from which you learned most”Submitted Structural Lessons in Engineering Management as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Founders Create Managers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Manager's Path in the Age of AI as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Senior Shortcut as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted OPP (Other People's Problems) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OKRs Are Hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New managers fail individual contributors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guiding critical projects without micromanaging as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Currently Believe About AI and Tech Employment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Senior Shortcut as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Founders Create Managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding the Rewrite Trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding the Rewrite Trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Other People's Problems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Senior Shift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Senior Shift: It’s now about your impact, not just your abilities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structural Lessons in Engineering Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is it so hard to decide to buy? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Is It So Hard to Decide to Buy? (vs. Build) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is it so hard to decide to buy? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guiding critical projects without micromanaging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Years of Engineering Ladders as a story · 1 points
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