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🚀 Career Strategies
Exploring Deep Habits (Work Edition)
Want to Stand Out? Master the Boring Stuff
Become Unstoppable by Redefining Yourself
A Collaborative Approach to Problem-Solving
The 2 Mindsets to Help You Tackle Hard Problems
How to Leverage Knowledge as a Junior Developer
The 3 Pieces of Competition that Guarantee Success
What I Learned After Trying (and Failing) to Do It All
6 Ways to Become the Most Valuable Coder on Your Team
4 Books That Made Me a Better Developer, Writer, and Person
5 Game-Changing Benefits of Using a Task-Capturing System
The 6-part System that Powers my $1,000/month Side Hustles
How to Enhance Your Skills Through Open-Source Experience
Your Salary is a Reflection of the Story You Tell About Your Value
The 8 Truths That Took Me 4 Years to Learn as a Software Engineer
From Stuck to Unstoppable: 5 Principles That Changed My Tech Career
4 Practical Software Development Skills from Competitive Programming
The 10 Habits of Long-Term Thinkers: Build a Life of Patience and Purpose
9 Ideas That Will Transform How You Live, Work, and Interact With the Internet
3 Reasons Why You Should Learn Python to Secure a Job as a Software Engineer
3 Non-Conventional Ways to Make Money as a Programmer (That Actually Work)
The Hidden Secret to Turning Any Unfinished Idea Into One Launch-Ready Product
How I Boosted Deep Work to 60% and Achieved More in Less Time—Here’s My Playbook
6 Ways to Become the Most Valuable Non-Coder on Your Team—and Increase Efficiency by 20%
✍ Online Writing
Substack Essentials for Tech Writers in 2025
The #1 Lesson I Learned After Writing for 6 Months
Why Writing Online Is the Smartest Move for Tech Pros
Why 2024 Was the Year I Stopped Dreaming and Started Building
The 4 Keys to Make Your First $1000 Writing Online as a Programmer
How to Share Your Software Engineering Insights, Get Noticed and Get Paid
The 5-Step Framework to Turn Common Work Questions into Valuable Articles
5 Reasons Why You Should Write Every Day as a Software Engineer (To Get a Competitive Advantage)
💻 Computer Science & Programming
Introduction to Dynamic Programming: The Coin Change Problem
Introduction to Dynamic Programming: Maximum Subarray Sum
Introduction to Game Theory: A Game of Stones
Introduction to Graph Theory: Nodes, Edges, and Connectivity
Introduction to Graph Theory: Neighbors, Degrees, and Colorings
Introduction to Graph Theory: Representing Graphs
Introduction to Graph Theory: Graphs and Boards
Introduction to Graph Theory: Dependency Graph Analysis
Introduction to Graph Theory: Hidden Graphs in Permutations
Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Debugging Like Competitive Programmers
Advanced Graph Theory: Mathematical Induction Applied to Graph Theory
Advanced Graph Theory: Paths, Connectivity, and Trees
Advanced Graph Theory: The Connectivity Problem
Advanced Graph Theory: Bipartite Graphs
Advanced Graph Theory: Trees, Permutations, and Number Theory
Advanced Graph Theory: How to Represent Single-Variable Functions Using Functional Graphs
💙 Health and Relationships
Exploring Deep Habits (Home Edition)
Flip Your Schedule, Transform Your Life
Why Your Brain Needs Books More Than TikToks
Are These 8 Issues Sabotaging Your Career and Life?
What Heaven and Hell Look Like for Tech Professionals
6 Habits Software Engineers Track to Improve Their Mastery and Health
The Dopamine Success Formula: 3 Tips to Stay Motivated in a Distracting World
Avoid These 3 Mistakes When Starting Your First Remote Job as a Software Engineer
The Digital World is Overwhelming: 3 Examples Where You Should Step Away From Your Screens
⭐ Guest Posts
The Competitive Mindset in CS Education
Introduction to Binary Search: The Fake Coin Puzzle
3 Reasons Why Software Engineers Have On-Call Duties, but Data Scientists Don't
📚 Playbooks and eBooks
The Competitive Programmer’s Guide to Graph Theory
Playbook: Increase Your Deep Work
Playbook: 5-Column Task-Capturing System
Playbook: Stay Mentally Fit as a Software Engineer
Playbook: 6 Ways to Become the Most Valuable Non-Coder on Your Team
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Alberto
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What a great idea to create a Table of Contents. I am not there yet for my won Substack, but will be at some point.