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...

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...

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

For a long time, I thought doing good work would be enough – my code, among other things, being testament to that. It...

One of those days, as I got to share an idea with a coworker on how to move forward with a project, which has been in...

Roughly speaking, I'd claim that most members of an organization are keen on helping their peers – tech companies bein...