March 29, 2026

This is the first time I write one of these weekly posts. I started forcing myself to read articles for 2-3 hrs every Sunday morning. I did this to mainly keep up with AI and to continue to learn because I felt like I wasn't learning much about the industry since it's been moving incredibly fast. This has greatly helped me with that goal and it became a habit at this point. Every Saturday night I go to sleep excited to wake up and learn new things.

Articles of the week

This week I picked up the following articles:

The one from Lee Robinson was my favorite. I have always admired high achievers, and that's something I aim to be myself. I think it is important to have your own principles and beliefs to live by, and I appreciate Lee for sharing some of his.

Learned

A couple things I learned from reading these that I want to share:

How to be a 10x Engineer

  • As you may know, having a reputation is important, their reputation is what carried the person being interviewed to be known and get opportunities
  • There was a section where Gergely Orosz asked them how they get things done fast, it was funny to not see like a framework or anything like that, just a "work your ass off". The person getting interviewed talked about how at the start of their career they would work until 2-3 am.
  • Instead of saying "We can't do next week's release" say "We can still do next week's release, but we'll have to leave X feature out. Otherwise we'll have to push it one more week". Provide options.
  • Know your priorities, and arrange your workday so you do your top priorities. <- This was my favorite part, something I need to start doing.

Better, Faster, and (Even) More

  • I have yet to use dotfiles, I don't know why I never have. If you use multiple machines, you should use them, especially to carry everything related to Claude across machines (like personal skills, hooks, etc).
  • Claude Code has a configurable "status line" where it seems you can display your /usage and other things.
  • I was wasting time with a personal skill I use all the time by having to allow "fetch". I allowed Claude to always use it without asking for permission. I will keep an eye out for commands or tools that I always approve and add them to Claude's config.
  • Claude code has a command /copy which copies the previous output to the clipboard...

Things I believe

  • "Study what worked for others, then take your own path". I guess this is what I've been doing for the past couple months? Improving my workflow, my habits and things like that, by comparing it to people I respect/look up to and then adjusting them to myself.
  • I LOVED "You have no career ceiling".
  • I read the article he links in there (Write like you talk), I will start thinking of this more when I write in this blog, since I want it to be personal and not super professional or full of jargon.

How to do AI-assisted engineering

  • If you have a custom way of doing planning, could be worth it to create a skill to aid you with it.