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Readings and Excerpts

• Blogs to Follow in 2025

• Junior to Senior, David Glassanos

  • Communication Skills for Software Engineers: Increase Your Effectiveness and Give Yourself a Competitive Edge
  • Working With a New Manager: How to Get Started on the Right Foot and Set Yourself Up for Success

• Better Venture, Erika Brodnock and Johannes Lenhard

  • In Conversation: Tom Wehmeier and Gené Teare
  • In Conversation: Gary Stewart and Lorenzo Thione
  • In Conversation: All Raise CEO Pam Kostka
  • In Conversation: Diversity.VC Co-Founder Check Warner

• Land Your Dream Design Job, Dan Shilov

  • How to Prepare for A Design Interview: Let Your Skills Shine and Land Your Dream Job
  • Crushing the Product Design Whiteboard Challenge
  • Breaking Down What Makes a Great Product Designer

• Angel Investing: Start to Finish, Joe Wallin and Pete Baltaxe

  • An Angel’s Guide to Angel Investments

• Ask Me This Instead, Kendra Haberkorn

  • Write a Resume that Tells Your Story

• Holloway Guide to Using Twitter

  • Stay Safe Out There: Navigating the Negatives on Twitter

• Holloway Guide to Remote Work

  • Essential Remote Team Practices

• Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring

  • What I Learned From Conducting 500 Technical Interviews, Pt. 1: The Interviewer Skills Ladder
  • Diversity and Inclusion in Tech, Part 1: Foundations, Myths, and Pitfalls
  • Diversity and Inclusion in Tech, Part 2: Improving the Hiring Process
  • Job Titles & Levels: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know

• Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Andy Sparks

  • Networking for Startup Founders
  • Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

Announcements

• Why We’re Writing a Book to Help Small Companies and Individuals Get Cybersecure, Erica Anderson and Laura Bell for Security for Everyone

• Why We Did It: Creating the Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring, thoughts from the lead author and senior editor of the The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring

• Introducing Holloway Classics

• Introducing The Holloway Platform and Two New Books

• The Guide to Remote Work Is Now Available

• The Guide to Raising Venture Capital Edition 1.0 is now available

• Release Notes: The Guide to Raising Venture Capital

• Improving Bookmarks

• The Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Edition 0.5 Released

• Announcing The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring

• Introducing Good Work, a Newsletter by Holloway

• Introducing The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital

• Introducing The First Holloway Guide

• Introducing Holloway: Reliable, In-depth Knowledge

Holloway Syllabi

• The Holloway Syllabus on Joining a Startup
• The Holloway Syllabus on Finding a Co-Founder
• The Holloway Syllabus on Company Culture
• The Holloway Syllabus on Remote Work
• The Holloway Syllabus on B2B Sales
• The Holloway Syllabus on Startup Boards

Guest Posts

• Hiring at Startups vs. Big Companies — Aditya Agarwal
• My Journey in Diversity and Inclusion: You don’t have to know what to do to know what’s right — Jason Wong
• How Reference Checks Can Go Wrong — Jose Guardado
• Hiring for Conscientiousness — Ozzie Osman
• What I Learned From Conducting 500 Technical Interviews, Pt. 1: The Interviewer Skills Ladder — Alex Allain

Good Work Newsletter Archive

• Good Work—Edition Nº 51
• Good Work—Edition Nº 50
• Good Work—Edition Nº 49
• Good Work—Edition Nº 48
• Good Work—Edition Nº 47
• Good Work—Edition Nº 46: Working with each other in mind, by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Good Work—Edition Nº 45: Finding ikigai, by Rei Wang
• Good Work—Edition Nº 44: Year in review
• Good Work—Edition Nº 43: Recovering from failure
• Good Work—Edition Nº 42: Building a good ground game
• Good Work—Edition Nº 41: Mistakes are inevitable
• Good Work—Edition Nº 40: The people you meet along the way
• Good Work—Edition Nº 39: Chaotic expansions
• Good Work—Edition Nº 38: Learning to swim can feel a lot like drowning at first
• Good Work—Edition Nº 37: Hiring for Conscientiousness (an excerpt)
• Good Work—Edition Nº 36: Why Work Distracts Us From What Matters
• Good Work—Edition Nº 35
• Good Work—Edition Nº 34
• Good Work—Edition Nº 33
• Good Work—Edition Nº 32
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• Good Work—Edition Nº 3
• Good Work—Edition Nº 2
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