podviaznikov.com

Tools, thinking and people September 2007. I'm still a student but got my first job as junior software engineer working 30 hours a week after my classes. As a junior person I was assigned a mentor. His name is Vitalik. He is kind and extremely smart. He is well respected and works on important projects. I got lucky, he was a catch and other people got matched with way less brilliant engineers. I sit next to Vitalik. He is older, but we can chat casually and I can ask him questions. I work on...