Will Larson (@Lethain) / X

Will Larson

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Will Larson

@Lethain

CTO at @imprintpayments. Wrote some books.

Joined March 2007

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Will Larson
@Lethain
Mar 19, 2020
A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers
staffeng.com
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
Will Larson
@Lethain
Aug 4
In the small wins department, both willlarson.com and willarson.com redirect to my domain now. (have had the later for ~20 years, but the former picked up a few days ago)
Will Larson
@Lethain
Jul 11
The biggest change in my thinking style over the past year has been retraining myself to inspect implicit assumptions to avoid the inconsistent and invisible specter of reasoning which was handled by a harnesses instead of a human.
lethain.com
Make no assumptions.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”, which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down to bedrock, which all combine into...
Will Larson
@Lethain
May 1
My X search results are all from 2011 now, but it did reveal that someone shared one of my posts to @jeff_weinstein in 2011 which is very Small World
Will Larson
@Lethain
Apr 30
In the year 2081, everybody was finally equal—and not just before God and the law. They were equal in focus, equal in productivity, and above all, equal in their inability to finish anything. This equality was enforced by the relentless supervision of Claude.