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The first was Engucation, a week filled with daily classes on Uber’s engineering culture and practices, distributed systems, on-call routines, security practices, and so much more.
Susan Fowler • Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
“Women need to be twice as good to get half the credit. Fortunately many women are four times as good.” —Alison Davis-Blake, former president of Bentley University (p. 17)
Charter • ‘7 Rules of Power’ by Jeffrey Pfeffer: How good people can accumulate power
Marianne Cooper
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Professionals quickly realized that they could count on her for high-quality light curves.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Debra Jo Prectet
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Here's another cold email from a stranger -> job at @stripe. 📧🌟
This one is extra special because it has the twist that we *created a new role* for this great person and they took @faderp's Applied probability models in marketing course. These facts are highly correlated!
8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)
Talia Goldberg • Distribution and conversion models for consumer startups
Sadly Sandy’s story is all too common. She possessed the skills, abilities and qualifications which should have been valued above all else, but she was overlooked in favor of more extrovert personalities –