The Software Engineer Weekly

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…

Oct 5 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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September 2026

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…

Sep 27 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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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…

Sep 18 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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July 2026

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…

Jul 4 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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June 2026

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…

Jun 29 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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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…

Jun 21 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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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…

Jun 14 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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3 Ways to Easily Build a Strong Technical Network

When I first started creating content and building in public, I was actively against the idea of meeting other tech creators. I completely avoided it…

Jun 5 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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May 2026

Are Software Engineers Going Away?

Every day, my timeline is flooded with the same underlying panic: Is AI going to destroy the software engineering profession? If you look at the rapid…

May 31 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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Min-Max Employment

This week, Meta laid off another 8,000 employees. These layoffs feel so dystopian nowadays especially since Meta employees ended up learning the exact…

May 24 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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How to Actually Get What You Want in Life

Most people believe that to win at a high level, you have to be the smartest, most inherently gifted person in the room. They treat success like a…

May 17 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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How Do I Live in the Present?

I’ve spent the last few days in a small village in the south of France, thinking about a concept I’m historically bad at: living in the present. We’re…

May 10 • Kevin Naughton Jr.

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