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Attention is All You Have
Attention is all that you have and you become what you give your attention to. The problem is that focusing on the right things can be difficult because…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
4 Years Without my Dad
“Life is short” is said too casually. We should really say: “You’re going to die.” Every day for the past four years I’ve reminded myself of this fact…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
Have 1 Goal, Not 10
I believe that if you want one thing in life and really focus on achieving it, you can almost always get it. If you believe this too, and are willing to…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
AI and the Death of Activation Energy
AI has solved one thing in particular that most people don’t talk about. If you look past the hype cycles and the code-generation benchmarks, the true…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
My Product Almost Died.
At the beginning of April, I hit a major milestone with my SaaS platform, Ferryman: a new MRR peak of $1,346. On social media, milestones like that look…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
Your Default Answer Should Be "No"
At some point, we all face the same invisible threat: a schedule that is no longer our own. We start with a blank canvas, but very quickly, the outside…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
How to Learn in the Age of AI
We’re currently living through the most radical shift in the history of software development. Code generation models have become so frictionless that…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
The Software Engineer Weekly
The Software Engineer Weekly
Accelerate your software engineering career with weekly tips. Read by engineers at Google, Netflix, Meta, and more. Written by a Software Engineer @ Google.
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