Sorry Engineering by Rafal Makara

Fast Answers vs. Smart Answers

Do you want to sound smart or be smart? Fast answers rely on past knowledge, while slow answers create new thoughts. Take your time to think. It’s worth…

Jan 30 • 

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Interviewing Like Hosting a Podcast

Transforming job interviews into engaging podcast-style conversations. In this post, Rafal Makara shares how empathy, storytelling, and curiosity create…

Jan 24 • 

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Efficient over Fast

I recently listened to a podcast with Prof. Antoni Krzeski, a laryngological surgeon and former hospital head. He shared an interesting idea: he has…

Jan 10 • 

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August 2024

How to implement DORA Metrics in 1 day?

In 2010, way before the State of DevOps and Accelerate were published, we were discussing the frequency of releases, failures, recoveries and the time…

Aug 28, 2024 • 

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CEO is a Job

When I worked as a Software Engineer, I thought C-Levels, VPs, Directors and Senior Managers were like gods.

Aug 1, 2024 • 

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May 2024

How to write in Jira Dashboards?

Jira Dashboards might be powerful.

May 21, 2024 • 

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Dealing with injustice

Everyone knows Radical Candor by Kim Scott.

May 14, 2024 • 

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How to talk about Tech Debt work?

Some people say it is hard to convince product managers to work on tech debt.

May 8, 2024 • 

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The Five Tribal Stages

Many great books are no longer super popular today. One of them is Tribal Leadership (2011) by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright. It brings…

May 6, 2024 • 

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Yyyy, ammm and no

Many suffer from “yyyy” when speaking.

May 3, 2024 • 

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April 2024

World existed before Metrics

There’s a saying:

Apr 12, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Shape Up, Composing the teams

It is one of the articles in the Shape Up series. For Table of Contents go to: How to make Shape Up successful? In many of Basecamp's writings, they…

Mar 30, 2024 • 

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