Hey there, I'm an engineer at The Browser Company (who makes Arc).
It's critical to our eng, design & product processes.
We switched from another tool because the other tool was painfully slow. It was a night & day difference. It's been about a year now since we've fully committed to Linear. I'm very glad we have!
We use their cycles feature heavily. We ship our app weekly, and our product development process is split into three 2-week cycles that form a "milestone". We model that work accordingly in Linear.
We also use their "Projects" feature quite heavily. We'll often have folks working across a few projects a time. This feature helps my ADHD brain understand what the most important thing across any number of ongoing projects is, and then focus on accomplishing that.
Personally, the best feature for me is the speed of the app. That, alongside the keyboard shortcuts, make it pretty hard to give up.
Another thing I particularly like about Linear (aside from speed, product polish & wonderful design) is how you can opt-in to using it more. If you just want to use it as an issue tracker for teams, that works great! It's how we started. But you can also grow into the product more as you harden your processes or figure out what works best for you.
tl;dr — I can't imagine ever using another tool to help build products besides Linear.
Hey there, I worked remotely for 4 of ~7.5 years at a medium-to-large tech company (I left in February). I'm very thankful I had the opportunity, since 99% of the engineering team was either onsite or in satellite offices.
In my experience, it was far easier for me to get burned out when working remotely versus in an office with other people. And when I did get burned out, I found it harder to get back on the other side of the hill when I didn't have a community around me.
Also, if I look at the ~7.5 year tenure at the company — my most productive and happiest times were when I was located onsite at their HQ.
Just my $0.02; happy to talk more in detail over email (in profile).
I dropped out just over 6 years ago to join Pinterest (I still work there). It’s the second best decision of my life (besides asking my wife to marry me).
How much longer do you have left in college? Do you enjoy it?
Obviously this is a case by case basis, but my thought process was -
1. I went to a decent regional school (nowhere near Ivy) and had a below average GPA (2.7 IIRC).
2. The cause of that low GPA was due to me spending my free time hacking on things, not studying.
3. Worst-case, I try and interview at a bunch of places and don’t get any offers so the decision is made for me.
Fortunately for me, I didn’t have a ton of student loan debts due to scholarships, so financing the education was not a factor in my case.
I had 1.5 years left. I loved college and some parts of school. It was really hard to leave. Looking back, I’m glad I did it but it was a rough few years seeing all of my friends have the time of their lives while I was working (even though I’ve loved my job). Once everyone graduated all of that FoMo went away. That’s also when new grads who were my age also started working there, which was nice.
Graduating from the university I went to wouldn’t have put me in a better situation relative to other applicants (meaning, I would still be going up against Ivy grads for the jobs I was after).
I ended up dropping out after being offered a promising job opportunity and I’d recommend that route to you if it’s possible. It makes the transition a lot easier.
Hope that helps! Happy to chat more via email. c at cnnr dot me.
What will you be doing? Unless you're spending your day in a heavy application (i.e. Photoshop, XCode, Eclipse), I'd say the Air, hands-down. I'm on my third one and am hoping to never get another brand of laptop - I love it. You just can't beat the size.
It has to hustle to keep Photoshop or XCode open longer than an hour or so, though.
Mostly web dev stuff. A Vagrant vm Ubuntu box running all day and Sublime Text. Then the usual Mail, Chrome, Spotify etc. Photoshop occasionally.
I'm 100% sure the Air will cope with my day to day and not have any lag etc. But since it's only an extra €100 to get the Pro I'm not adverse to paying the extra for those times without a monitor, I just don't want any downsides because of that!
Unrelated: Dan (the guy who owns this domain) is an incredibly brilliant engineer. I had the honor of working with him during my time at Lift (he worked for Obvious at the time). Cool to see his site pop up here.
It's critical to our eng, design & product processes.
We switched from another tool because the other tool was painfully slow. It was a night & day difference. It's been about a year now since we've fully committed to Linear. I'm very glad we have!
We use their cycles feature heavily. We ship our app weekly, and our product development process is split into three 2-week cycles that form a "milestone". We model that work accordingly in Linear.
We also use their "Projects" feature quite heavily. We'll often have folks working across a few projects a time. This feature helps my ADHD brain understand what the most important thing across any number of ongoing projects is, and then focus on accomplishing that.
Personally, the best feature for me is the speed of the app. That, alongside the keyboard shortcuts, make it pretty hard to give up.
Another thing I particularly like about Linear (aside from speed, product polish & wonderful design) is how you can opt-in to using it more. If you just want to use it as an issue tracker for teams, that works great! It's how we started. But you can also grow into the product more as you harden your processes or figure out what works best for you.
tl;dr — I can't imagine ever using another tool to help build products besides Linear.