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What To Buy That Improves Quality of Life

Nov 26, 2025 • Ryan Peterman

New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

Dec 13, 2024 • Ryan Peterman and Evan King

28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google

Nov 22, 2024 • Ryan Peterman

What You Work On >> How Hard You Work

Oct 25, 2024 • Ryan Peterman

Podcast

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Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings

This is Adam Ernst, a Distinguished Engineer at Meta (IC9) who’s built iOS infrastructure that has impacted the entire company.

Feb 9 • Ryan Peterman

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Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams

Career learnings from his journey

Feb 2 • Ryan Peterman

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Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Years

The anxiety and reality no one talks about

Jan 30 • Ryan Peterman

58:26

Stanford PhD, AI Researcher and Ex-Citadel Quant Shares His Experience

Breaking into the fields, if you need a PhD, what the nature of the work is like

Jan 26 • Ryan Peterman

Blog

Feb 3 • Ryan Peterman

What To Buy That Improves Quality of Life

Holiday gift guide inspiration

Nov 26, 2025 • Ryan Peterman

Everything I learned after 2 years of writing

Jan 31, 2025 • Ryan Peterman

New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”

Dec 13, 2024 • Ryan Peterman and Evan King

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