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AMA with @colin starts now! Colin went to Waterloo and worked on a variety of projects there - most notably he was CTO of Yelplive & founder of BitIndy. He then worked on the payments team at Coinbase and moved over to Google where was was an eng manager for ~4 years. Now Colin is building @paragraph full time!
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how often do you write vs code? what do you like / dislike about both? And is there something in your thought process you think is similar across both?
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Colin
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I think it depends - at Google as an IC I coded 80% of the time, then I became a manager and stopped coding and wrote heavily (mainly design docs & other technical strategy docs). At Paragraph, I generally code much more, but it depends on what stage I'm at in a given project (at the start, I write much more) 1/3
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I definitely don’t do as much public, non-technical writing as I want to these days! Something I’m hoping to change in 2024 2/3
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For similarities, absolutely - in both, you translate an idea to something concrete, so you need to have a good understanding of what you’re writing/coding; consider edge-cases; write 'tests' (ensure it holds up to argument); etc 3/3
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