Cortado

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How a side project has made me a better manager

How a side project has made me a better manager

When I was first asked to be a software engineering manager, I knew that saying yes would come with tradeoffs. On the one hand, it would be a chance to have more impact, mentor people, and develop my leadership skills. On the other, it was a job change: instead of solving technical problems myself, I would be helping others do

When you find out you’re the copycat

When you find out you’re the copycat

It was a rollercoaster of a week. It began when my side project, which I’d been quietly building for seven months, unexpectedly made it to the number two spot on Hacker News. It ended with me considering whether I should give up on the project completely.

Cortado

Cortado

I built Cortado to make it easy to stay up to date with refreshing your feeds all day. It's a web app that gets the latest content from sources like Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, and Youtube, and sends them to your email in a single daily digest.