2019年回顾中。

career (21), blog (15)

对我个人来说，这是非常特别的一年，即使我不会详细讲述我最兴奋的两件事（一件是专业的，一件是个人的）（一两个月后会有更多），写一年的回顾仍然让我充满感激之情。

以前：2018年,2017年

Goals for 2019

我从来没有公布过我2019年的目标，但我把它们写在了个人笔记里，我会先反思一下。一年前，当我制定这些目标时，我觉得我正在做的项目数量有点捉襟见肘，所以这些目标本来是可以实现的，同时也要做一份消耗性的工作。

我的目标是（1）出版一个优雅的拼图（2）建立一个小的，但真实的，在条纹之上的业务建立更深的持续熟悉，（3）至少讲两次会议，（4）最终完成阅读计算机程序的结构与解释which I’d been postponing for over a decade, and (5) be a deliberate mentor to 2-4 people.

我将更详细地介绍下面的大部分内容–一个优雅的拼图我在四次会议上发言，我读到SICP–但也有意思的是，简单地挖掘两个没有成功的例子：创建一个小企业和成为一个深思熟虑的导师。

开始一个新的业务仍然是我想做的事情，但建立一个需要持续维护和支持的东西的形式对我来说在结构上有点挑战。我想做的事情太多了，以至于我发现具体的项目——开始和结束的事情——对我来说效果更好，而一个企业恰恰相反。也许我能找到一个方法来启动一个业务，并把它交给一个合作伙伴？

作为一个刻意的导师对我来说是一个定义挑战，主要是因为隐含的导师关系并不是很好地与我共鸣。There are more than four folks earlier in their management career that I keep up with and hope to help, but those relationships aren’t particularly different than keeping up with folks who have been in industry as long as me or much longer – all seem a bit more like friends than mentors, mentees or such. What is mentorship? We need a better word here.

写作

这是写作的好年。我写65个博客帖子（2018年75年的-10同比），贡献工程经理需要技术吗？到增量，贡献Good Process is Evolved, Not Designed到每个工程经理都应该知道的97件事,and published my first book,一个优雅的拼图.(I also worked with First Round Review on如何衡量和评估来自Stripe、Uber和Digg的工程师领导的团队，这是一个惊人的经历，但我没有写文章本身。）

The writing that I’m most proud of is certainly一个优雅的拼图.截至12月20日，这是一个惊人的评分为4.5的令人惊叹，已售出16,541份（Q2，Q3，Q4中的3K，3k，3K中的7K，Q4中的3K，3K）。更多的数字五个月的评论,more reflection in我从写书中学到了什么，还有十几个播客之类的一个优雅的益智出版社和评论跟踪器.When I reflect on my professional accomplishments of this decade, I suspect this will be the one I remember most fondly.

我也很感激有机会用不同的格式写作！正在写入增量and97件事给了我一个重新思考写作的机会。对于增量特别是一块，我的重点是语言本身的更多，试图写一些更抒情的东西。我怀疑我几年来试图写一本书，但我希望我能在2020年获得一些机会来写入非博客媒介。

我最喜欢的作品我写了今年是：特权面朝上窗户,Reclaim unreasonable software,A forty year career,创立Monocle工作室,预测综合度量,为什么限制正在进行的工作作品,勘探规模,and如何投资技术基础设施金沙手机客户端. 他们是一个很好的分裂的实验形式和教训，我花了十多年来学习。

The top pieces by page views were:规模建筑系统简介（6.5万，比2018年的2.5万年增长4万），A forty year career（16k），如何投资技术基础设施金沙手机客户端（12k），以及为什么限制正在进行的工作作品(11k). More commentary on analytics in the next section.

分配

而我最看重的是写作如何帮助我处理和解决问题从我的经历中学习，听到你的写作帮助某人是一种非常特别的感觉。挑战是在您的撰写之前可以帮助某人，您的写作必须是read，这意味着要花时间在分发上。

In 2019, 40% of traffic was direct (from RSS and links shared in applications that don’t preserve referrers), 22% via search, 21% via referrals (other folks’ blog posts, link aggregators like Reddit), 16% via social (Twitter, LinkedIn), and 1% came from email (email lists, including my own).

总共有383k PageViews（+ 173K PageViews同比于2018年的210K），平均为2：16米（-0：07米，2018年2:23的时间）。第六件六件，五是在2019年写的。一个例外是我的多年生顶部，规模建筑系统简介,which was written in 2011 and whose traffic is driven by search and referrals from online education sites.

虽然一些RSS爬虫在其HTTP推荐人信息中，很难获得RSS订阅者的良好意义。基于这些，我估计600之间的某处和无限RSS用户。

Twitter grew to 8k followers (+4.4k YoY from 3.6K), driven primarily by一个优雅的拼图,as well as some tweet storms and such. LinkedIn grew to 8.9k connections or followers (+1.5k YoY), again largely driven by cold-sourcing as opposed to organic growth through content sharing.

我已开始a mailing list2019年初发出每周收集我的写作，我认为这与不使用RSS的人的RSS更换（我确实有一个RSS饲料). 56%的用户经常打开我的电子邮件，21%的用户很少打开。（“经常”和“很少”是什么意思？我有1318个订户，上个月增加了116个。我并不是真的喜欢Mailchimp的定价，我可以想象我最终可能会在某个时候转换。

Overall, I’m pretty happy with distribution metrics this year. I’m still afflicted with the constant tension between wanting to write for learning versus writing for reach. There are fairly obvious things I should do in order to drive distribution (be more opinionated, write sharper titles, write broader content, focus more on content quality) that would make writing less effective for me as a learning mechanism, and I’m still working my way through that tradeoff.

讲话

2018年，我做了第一次会议和播客说话，发言三播客和一次会议（QCon SF about migrations）。在2019年，我给了两个会谈。第一个我给了关于设计组织过程的SFELC，第二个关于投资技术基础设施金沙手机客户端我在SRECon EMEA、QCon SF、Velocity、Uber的生产工程会议和一些公司的场外会议上做了演讲。我也参与了13个播客，大部分是到generate press for An Elegant Puzzle.

几个月前我读了Subbu Allamaraju的在公开演讲中从我今年的目标来看，这篇文章引起了我很大的共鸣：在公共场合轻松发言是一个深思熟虑的练习和重复的问题。在这一点上，我远不是最好的演说家，但我觉得自己说话很自在，而且觉得自己相当有效。

I don’t plan to do as much speaking going forward, as it can take up a fair amount of time and I feel like the time is better invested into writing or resting, but I’d like to continue writing and presenting roughly one talk each year. For that talk, I’d like to pick an area to really focus on improving, and keep investing into the details of effective public speaking.

If I do write a 2020 talk, my current idea is that it might expand on the ideas fromA forty year careerand你只向你学习反思.

学习

学习is a big part of what motivates me, and this year I did a fair amount of reading (and a lot more fiction reading that I won’t include here), and a handful of learning experiments.

我写up notes on逃离构建陷阱,建筑进化架构,关系数据库设计的手册,and a collection of notes on一台新机器的灵魂，凌乱的中间，它不必在工作中疯狂，而且公司的一个.我读过的其他一些书，但没有写注意：沙山路的秘密,技术战略模式,Super Pumped,精益产品行动手册，本质主义，大器晚成者,天使：如何投资科技初创企业,两种收入陷阱(this was excellent),丝绸之路,Swipe to Unlock.I co-led a reading circle on加速同时，也引发了一系列的讨论。

对于实验引导学习，我做的一些项目是在GCP上创建Slack应用程序,托管“系统”库作为云功能,andusing Binder to host Jupyer notebook.In retrospect, I would have liked to have done a few more of these.

条纹

1月下旬，我有机会在一家新公司开始新的角色，这将使2019年我去年在条纹上。More to say about the new role after I start – not much to say yet other than gushing how excited I am about the folks I’ll be working with and the mission I’ll be contributing towards – so I’ll just briefly mention some things I’m proud of from my bit over three and a half years at Stripe.

Got to work with many truly lovely folks, who I’ve learned so much from. Learned a tremendous amount from Stripe’s remarkable leadership team: thank you. Got to play a small part in many folks building their careers and experience. Got to steer an organization filled with amazing leaders doing amazing work as it grew from something small to something mighty. Got to help form a true第一队真正地互相关心的工程管理人员，并愿意代表更广泛的团队的需求和他们的团队愿意给自己和他们的团队不便：感谢阿曼达,布瑞恩,David,Davin，艾琳，凯利,斯科特and乌玛.

Got to play the very smallest part in the founding of增量，与Susan Fowler、Sid Orlando和Molly McArdle合作，最终为最新一期撰稿.Got to work with凯蒂实施过程considering internal candidates for senior roles. 对进程进行迭代为难得的机会选择潜在客户. 曾与气andDavidon defining our approach to technical investment, a variation of which is written up in勘探规模. 和Brianna，Tyler，Sasha和Shaun一起工作一个优雅的拼图onto the page.

实际上，我应该在这里呼吁几十个其他的人，他们改变了我的生活：谢谢。还有几十个我引以为豪的其他项目，但这些都是很好的亮点。

条纹不仅教我的it evolved, nor did it only expose me to such amazing folks, it’s also provided a remarkable brand and platform for my writing and speaking. Folks who have read and appreciated my work over the past four years have unavoidably been influenced by their opinion of Stripe. They’ve perceived my writing as better, and me as more of an authority, through the lens of my affiliation. WIthout the benefits of Stripe’s platform, I’m certain my writing would be impacting far fewer people, and I’m grateful to take that platform with me, both literally through my book on条纹媒体并通过达到和可信度。

本着四十年的职业生涯，我正试图与我的职业生涯刚刚开始的思维方式行事。In that spirit, I hope I’ll accomplish far more in the future than I have thus far, but at this moment, my time at Stripe is certainly the defining epoch of my work: I learned the most, grew the fastest, accomplished things I never imagined, and I cherish the folks I got to work with.

Goals for 2020

鉴于1月底，我将在新公司开始新的角色，我谨在明年设立太多目标。因此，而不是设置2020个目标，而是将在未来十年中设置一些目标。

In the next decade I’d like to:

  • Do more learning experiments each year. Trying new technology. Try new software. Experiment!
  • 每年写一个新的谈话，并在某处呈现。对于每次谈话，找出我想要改进的一些方面，并专注于改善该领域。
  • 至少写四个好的每年的博客文章。我写得比这快得多（取决于好的，当然！），但我不认为我最近的步伐是可持续的长期，更离群。（2017年15篇，2016年13篇，2015年1篇，2014年4篇，2013年0篇，2012年11篇，以此类推）
  • 3-5 folks who I’ve managed or “mentored” move into VPE or CTO roles at 100+ person or $1B+ companies.
  • Become an official advisor for 1-3 startups.
  • Invest very small amounts of money in 3-5 startups.
  • Become a board member of a small company, startup or non-profit.
  • 写一本关于基础设施工程的书。
  • Write another book about engineering or engineering management.
  • Start a small but real business that I can run with a small amount of ongoing time investment.

Certainly I’ll have quite a few professional goals at work, but those are sufficiently specific and confidential that they don’t fit well into a public list. I also have some goals in my personal life, but I tend to document that side of my life完全通过故事.

希望你们都有一个美好的一年，并希望听到你的反思和你的目标。