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This is the table of contents for all of the newsletter Issues that I have sent out. I help developers grow — I share my thoughts as a CTO about building digital products, growing teams, scaling development and in general being a good technical founder.

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Past Issues

2024-07-09 What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks
2024-05-16 Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
2024-05-09 I’m sorry
2024-04-30 Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return
2024-04-20 10x Engineers
2024-03-31 Mental Health in Software Engineering
2024-03-14 Why software projects fail
2024-02-20 Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior
2024-02-03 Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise
2024-01-14 Code Reviews
2023-12-24 Security at Startup
2023-12-10 Handling Process Debt
2023-11-22 Dealing with Failures and Postmortems
2023-11-04 Habits of great software engineers
2023-10-19 Networking as an introvert CTO
2023-10-01 Database Migrations
2023-09-14 Asking questions the right way
2023-09-05 Aging Code
2023-08-14 Managing difficult software engineers
2023-07-21 What does a CTO actually do?
2023-07-01 Being a good mentor – a developers guide
2023-06-11 Proper Documentation
2023-05-01 Rules of Thumb for Estimations
2023-03-31 Bullsh*t Jobs
2023-03-12 Product Owner vs Project Manager
2023-03-02 Build vs Buy: age old dilemma
2023-01-27 Contracts you should never sign
2023-01-15 Interviews-as-a-Service
2023-01-06 Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering (Very Popular)
2022-08-29 The silent majority
2022-08-16 Software Development is very subjective
2022-08-06 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset
2022-07-26 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill
2022-07-19 Fake it till you make it
2022-07-11 ⛓ Implementing Atomic Habits in IT
2022-07-04 🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round
2022-06-29 Building a side-project
2022-06-20 🏆 Promotion-based development
2022-06-14 ✍️ Being an Amateur
2022-06-06 📈 The Toxic Grind (Very Popular)
2022-05-23 🎃 We’ll add it to the backlog
2022-05-16 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day?
2022-04-29 💀 Every app has its skeletons (Very Popular)
2022-04-19 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes
2022-03-17 🥇 The unfair advantage
2022-03-15 ⚙️ So what does SLA really mean?
2022-03-05 ⛳ Moving Forward in times of uncertainty
2022-02-23 🔥 Do things , tell people
2022-02-18 ⚓️ Embracing Onboarding
2022-02-07 🔥Battling daily procrastination

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