Lucas' Refuge

My current rule of thumb, as I voiced to my mentees and manager alike, is that I proactively ask to work on projects w...

After eight years in tech, there are very little career traps I haven't seen. However, the most alarming one to this d...

During my career, I've seen countless articles out there acknowledging imposter syndrome. A concept, which I only expe...

At the surface, a brag doc seems like a simple enough technique. In fact, it can be and, even in the cases you don't p...

For the vast majority of my career, I had no formal way of tracking my progress – an unfortunate mistake. During yearl...

If there is one ability I see engineers overlooking, that is writing. Perplexing as it may be, many don't realize how...

As I was having a chat with a new teammate, who had just hit the three-week mark with us, we got to speak about what a...

During my first performance evaluation round with my current manager, he has asked me: what is that motivates you at w...

The other day, as I was trying to spice up my 1on1s, I've proposed to my manager that we played out with the idea of a...

Yes. I used to hate 1on1s. At the beginning of my career, they just felt like an obligation – despite what 1on1s are m...