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Learning by Shipping

Personal blog · blog.learningbyshipping.comproductivitycareer

Learning by Shipping is a personal blog at blog.learningbyshipping.com about productivity and career. Since 2013, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Management Cliches that Work”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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2013–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 30 in 2013

products, development, management...

Most-linked posts?

  1. Management Cliches that Work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-27
  2. Look at me More thoughts on notifications
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-15
  3. Shipping is a Feature: Some Guiding Principles for People That Build Things
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-17
  4. Mobile OS Paradigm
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-12
  5. Surviving legacy code (2013)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-02
  6. Learn by Shipping
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-03
  7. Realities of Performance Appraisal
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-09
  8. Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. jmspring · 2013-11-12
    An interesting read related to the topic -- Sinovsky on performance evaluation and large orgs: http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/11/09/realities-of-p...

    Comment linking /2013/11/09/realities-of-performance-appraisal/

    on “Microsoft does away with stack ranking”
  2. aaronbrethorst · 2013-01-04

    Submitted Welcome to “Learning by Shipping” as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  3. akkartik · 2016-04-15
    I don't think the paper contradicts the second quote. It just points out that things got a lot more complex since. "this again shows that getting software right is not easy." Not easy, yes, but in my experience getting software right isn't too difficult. What seems impossibly hard is keeping software right, maintaining correctness in the presence of new requirements, compatibility constraints and just sheer caring a…

    Comment linking /2013/04/02/surviving-legacy-code

    on “The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores [pdf]”
  4. go37pi · 2014-12-31

    Submitted Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  5. stevesi · 2014-12-31
    My $0.02 all here http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2014/12/30/why-remote-eng...

    Comment linking /2014/12/30/why-remote-engineering-is-so-difficult/

    on “How Paul Graham Is Wrong”
  6. ctide · 2014-09-29

    Submitted Beauty of Testing as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  7. cpeterso · 2014-09-26
    Steven Sinofsky's (post-Microsoft) blog is also a good read: http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “PM at Microsoft (2005)”
  8. cpeterso · 2015-12-31

    Submitted “Hallway Debates”: A 2016 Product Manager Discussion Guide as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. orky56 · 2014-04-19
    Just a few days ago, Steven Sinofsky of a16z addressed some of the great points in this article. All the more relevant since he was in charge of some major MS products early on.[1] Here's the part I most enjoyed: "The bottom line is a decision has to be made. A decision means to not do something, and to achieve clarity in your design. The classic way this used to come up (and still does) is the inevitable “make it a…

    Comment linking /2014/04/17/shipping-is-a-feature-some-guiding-principles-for-people-that-build-things/

    on “Don’t Add Features to Make Customers Happy (2011)”
  10. abdophoto · 2013-01-03

    Submitted Learn by Shipping as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  11. Spearchucker · 2013-10-26
    If Steve Sinofsky is to be believed, this is the natural order of things: http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/10/25/on-the-exploit...

    Comment linking /2013/10/25/on-the-exploitation-of-apis/

    on “The Facts about LinkedIn Intro”
  12. bdfh42 · 2013-12-17

    Submitted Designing for exponential trends of 2014 as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  13. greenyoda · 2013-11-30
    This article was written by Steven Sinofsky, former president of the Windows Division at Microsoft. http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/stevesi/

    Comment linking /stevesi/

    on “Surviving Legacy Code”
  14. cgravill · 2014-12-22

    Submitted Why Sony’s Breach Matters as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  15. cpeterso · 2014-01-22

    Submitted Surviving legacy code (2013) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  16. jamesjyu · 2013-08-22

    Submitted Learning by Shipping as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  17. kenjackson · 2014-12-23

    Submitted Management Cliches that Work as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  18. cyang08 · 2013-02-27

    Submitted Dealing with doubt and over-confidence in building something new as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  19. rinesh · 2015-03-17

    Submitted Frictionless Design Choices as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  20. prostoalex · 2014-08-18

    Submitted Mobile OS Paradigm as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  21. aaronbrethorst · 2015-10-12

    Submitted Getting (the Right) Stuff Done as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. realpundit · 2014-08-12

    Submitted Mobile OS Paradigm as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. co_pl_te · 2013-10-26

    Submitted On the exploitation of APIs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. antr · 2013-09-11

    Submitted 8 steps for engineering leaders to keep the peace as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. kevin_morrill · 2013-02-04

    Submitted Embracing Ideas is How New Things Happen as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. aaronbrethorst · 2013-01-05

    Submitted Engineering and social science lead to plans as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  27. tangled · 2015-05-24

    Submitted The Lesson of “Don’t forget all the parts move” as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. huytoan_pc · 2013-11-30

    Submitted Surviving Legacy Code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. npalli · 2013-11-09

    Submitted Realities of Performance Appraisal as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Spearchucker · 2013-10-25

    Submitted On the Exploitaton of APIs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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