Dan Kim

People are the only thing that matter in companies.

Kelly Vaughn on the Block layoffs: “You don’t lay off 40% of your staff of 10,000 because of AI.

The worst people you don’t know are coming out of the woodwork with their “thoughts” about AI and the Square Cash App layoffs.

One thing I’ve been historically terrible at doing is regularly keeping track of my accomplishments while they happen.

Liberally blocking / muting / unfollowing on LinkedIn is underrated.

One of the few silver linings to come out of a couple of my old jobs imploding is to see the amazing people I worked with go on to do truly great things.

This article by Siddharth Khare is the best thing I’ve read about AI and the potential (or perhaps more accurately, likely) detrimental effects on engineers and some strategies on how to help manage it.

I started reading some random post here and the second sentence started with “Marc Andreessen said…” and that’s when I blocked that person forever

This is not how engineers work together.

“Don’t worry, you’ll end up getting a job where you belong.” — my extremely wise, much-smarter-than-me partner

Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement.

Two things that I’ll forever remember from my extended job hunt… 💙 The kind folks who went out of their way to refer me internally, send me potential opportunities, share advice, help me prep, and acted as references. 👻 The companies/people that totally g…

Standard Chet Haase writing — salient, important points wrapped in humor.

Incredible energy and ideas, sparks flying everywhere Slogging through turning those ideas into an abstract Excitedly submitting your abstract that took way too long Nervously waiting to see if you’re going to be rejected The amazing feeling when your talk

It’s so strange and upsetting to me to see companies that completely ghost candidates after just the first step of submitting an application.

Head nodding my way through this entire post.

Because people who work in tech still believe in the power of tech to do good things, many of us won’t just dismiss outright the possibility that any technology — even AI tools like LLMs — could yield some benefits.

Anil Dash speaks the truth.

The values section of Jake Wharton’s hire me page is the best thing I’ve read in years.

And though I’ve always found the fiddly parts of programming the most calming, and the most essential, I’m not especially good at them.

One of the most counter-intuitive phenomena in trust repair is where initial success in building trust leads to a short-term surge in reported ‘negative metrics’.

Senior engineers look at the big, messy, abstract thing and start digging: They ask questions nobody else thought to ask.

This post by Molly Graham is excellent.

Kind of shocking to me that the majority of job postings still list number of years as a requirement.

When in doubt, share your professional failures.

The title says it all – I am so bad at interviewing.

Summary Seeking a fully remote Engineering Manager role (occasional travel for meetups and other team activities is great).

I’ve gone through a few rounds of interviews in 2025 and they’ve been a stark reminder that your performance in any given interview is max 50% (arguably less) within your control.

It’s happened to all of us – an idea strikes for a side project and you want to build a quick webapp, but then you remember the state of webdev is still a bit of a mess in 2025.

I don’t want to minimize the anxiety of being unemployed because it IS extremely stressful, but it’s worth remembering that it also provides some rare short-term life opportunities to recharge.

Two of the biggest career-altering jobs I ever landed were because the hiring manager took a chance on me.

There are a number of posts and videos that claim you shouldn’t ever say “I’ve never done that” in an interview.

If, in an engineering manager interview, you ask me to do anything with a binary tree I’ll probably fail it on the spot.

I’m a big, big believer in the four day work week.

tl;dr: It works like email, and your posts will have a much wider audience over time.

Summary: So you’re thinking about becoming an engineering manager, eh?

If you’re anything like me, you prefer to have complete control over your photo library files.

If you’re writing anything of consequence, the sad reality is that you’re probably going to get shit on.

Summary: Building mobile apps is what we love to do, but there’s always one nagging problem — writing server side components to support our apps can be surprisingly complex and difficult.

Summary: Many of today’s work environments are crazy — they run at a frenetic pace, full of interruptions and distractions.

Summary: As the saying goes, it’s not the destination, it’s the journey!

Summary: Keynote: The future of our community is YOU Every day each one of us turns to community contributions to help us become better developers — blog posts, open source projects, conference talks, podcasts, and so much more.

Jeff Bezos is generally one those people whose ideas and thinking make a lot of sense to me.

Summary: When Kotlin hit the Android scene, one of the first things many of us did was wrap difficult-to-use Android Framework APIs with extension functions.

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s been going on in our community — conferences, meetups, blog posts, podcasts, open source (the list goes on and on) — you’ve probably noticed a really wonderful energy and spirit behind them all.

I know this feeling isn’t unique.

Summary: A lot of teams are super excited by Kotlin and are ready to go all-in with it.

Stop me if you’ve heard these before when people get to talking about programming languages… “These features are copied this from –superior language–.”

Think back to the the last time you struggled mightily with a programming problem.

Kotlin has a bunch of amazing features, and certain ones tend to grab the headlines — things like extension functions, higher order functions, and null safety among them.