Reading List. Week 44, 2025

Here are some things I’ve read recently, related to work, that caught my attention, shared without comment.

• The AI Gender Gap Paradox
• Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
• Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)
• Programming With Less Than Nothing
• How to be an empathetic manager (without becoming a therapist)
• On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not – charity.wtf
• So You Want to Be Promoted, Pt. 2
• How “Surface Acting” Drains Leaders—and How to Break the Cycle
• Useful engineering management artifacts | Bjorg
• 50 things I know
• Programming Languages That Blew My Mind
• How to Communicate Difficult Decisions at Work without Losing Your Team