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Announcing The Engineering Manager Survival Guide
A second course in collaboration with Cate Huston
Feb 6 • Jean Hsu
Making Space After Burnout
What to know if you’re considering a sabbatical
Feb 2 • Jean Hsu
2025 Year in Review
A year of curiosity, exploration, community, and more.
Dec 30, 2025 • Jean Hsu
Behind the Scenes of DRI Your Career
How 15 years of friendship and 2 years of phone calls evolved into the course we wanted to take ourselves
Dec 21, 2025 • Jean Hsu
Announcing DRI Your Career
Shape your career, or capitalism will — an 8-week fully async course to take charge of your career
Dec 9, 2025 • Jean Hsu
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Ask vs guess culture
Aug 12, 2023 • Jean Hsu
Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance
Aug 15, 2022 • Jean Hsu
Some thoughts on interviewing
Jan 27, 2024 • Jean Hsu
Finding the joy in feeling tired
Sep 25, 2022 • Jean Hsu
A fun end-of-year gift for you! 🎁
An Absurd Hypotheticals Advent Calendar, featuring the pizza question, turtle assassins, and more...
Dec 1, 2025 • Jean Hsu
Building Community Tech
Three recent community tech builds, lessons from vibe coding, and rediscovering the joy of building
Nov 8, 2025 • Jean Hsu
What if hard work felt easier?
Rethinking productivity, motivation, and the path of least resistance
Oct 12, 2025 • Jean Hsu
Creating Space: Fall Cohort is Open 🍂
Come join us for the next cohort of Creating Space!
Oct 6, 2025 • Jean Hsu
How to know the right next step when everything feels uncertain
A guest post by Vinamrata Singal, on navigating the journey from quitting her PM job to entering filmmaking
Sep 10, 2025 • Vinamrata Singal
Coaching Toolkit: Sitting With the Unknown
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
Aug 21, 2025 • Jean Hsu
9 Things from My Summer (So Far)
Mama summer camp, Monopoly, a summer roadtrip, long bike rides, and more!
Jul 15, 2025 • Jean Hsu
Tech and Tea
Tech and Tea
Navigating the messiness of life with a career in startups. Musings on engineering leadership, teamwork, parenting, partnership, and creative self-expression.
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