During the trip, I finished reading all remaining books by Nassim Nicolas Taleb – The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness and Skin in the Game. Each book is great and unique, so I recommend them if you already like NNT. If you are new to his work, start with Antifragile. This book has influenced my life significantly:

The Principal Developer is a new post on my blog. It’s a short conversation between me and my ex-colleague Andrey about skills that experienced developers need. You can read it here: https://sizovs.net/2019/02/15/the-principal-developer/

🎓 Immediately after the post I released my new invitation-only masterclass with the same name. The Principal Developer will build traits, habits, and skills that technical people need to succeed at senior-level positions. The course was in production for more than two years. Check it out here: https://devchampions.com/training/the-principal-developer/

FYI: Starting from today, domains with .dev extensions have become available to the public. By now, there are many cool domain names available. I registered principal.dev for 400€.

👨‍💻 To keep my Java coding skills sharp, I released an open-source library PipelinR – it’s a lightweight command processing pipeline ❍ ⇢ ❍ ⇢ ❍ for your Java awesome app. Any Java developers in my list? :-)

💡 Free career advice for you – if you know how to code, and your current role does not allow you to code at work (say, you are engineering manager), never stop coding. Life is unpredictable. Coding is a skill that will always be with you.

Few Tweets before I let yo go:

Have a productive week and see you soon!