Staying on Top

We’re here to make sure you’re always on top of your game throughout your career. Never fall behind.

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Keeping up with the Industry

Keep a pragmatic level-headed approach to the latest industry trends and best practices.

Twitter (X) is usually where most of the industry news is shared.

Having a Twitter (X) account is a good idea. Just be careful with the information you consume. Don’t buy into hype and fear-mongering.

Big companies usually have an agenda and most ‘influencers’ have no clue about how to apply the knowledge they share. They tend to share recklessly.

You can also benefit from reading the discussions on Taro.

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Newsletters

Newsletters are an incredibly efficient way to stay on top of industry trends and best practices.

Widen your industry knowledge, become a better Leader, and level up in your career. Learn from the best in the industry.

Our top picks:

• High Growth Engineer - Jordon Cutler - Senior Software Engineer @ Pinterest
• Developing Dev - Ryan Peterman - Staff Engineer @ Meta
• Engineering Leadership - Gregor Ojstersek - Fractional / Interim CTO, Ex-CTO @ Zorion
• Level Up Coding - Level up your engineering & system design skills. Complex topics simplified.

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Dev Tooling

The best engineers always make sure they’re up to date with the latest tools and technologies to stay efficient and productive.

Consolve Dev - Weekly email sharing the pros and cons of the latest dev tools.

Most other usefuly tools you’ll find browsing X (Twitter).

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Promotions

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Brag Doc

Most engineers downplay their contributions in their self-assessments simply because they forget what they did. To gather evidence for all your great work, here are a few places you can look at:

• Your weekly work log / brag doc / yay me file (I really hope you have one, an if you don’t, please start one asap)
• Your 1-1 with your manager docs (this would be another great one to keep track of)
• Has anybody publicly thanked you for anything? (you should keep track of it)
• Look through the pull requests, commits, and issues you filed
• Look through how many code reviews you did
• Look at the calendar events and meetings you scheduled
• Look for documents you authored in Google Drive — or equivalent company document management system
• Look for mentions of yourself through Slack — or equivalent company chat

Collecting this data will be very helpful to justify your performance even if you might not be applying for promotion. And you’ll be grateful you have it at hand when you are applying for a promotion.