Maria Polonchek
Maria Polonchek is a writer at Torch, a digital agency in San Francisco. She has published award-winning poetry, short stories, and essays in a variety of national publications. She is also the author of In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious Word. She holds her BA and MFA in English from the University of Kansas.
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Running Effective Meetings: An Engineer's Guide
If you’re the leader of a software development team, chances are good that your engineers spend more time than they’d prefer on things other than developing software. Much of this time is probably taken up by meetings; Harvard Business review reports that time spent attending meetings in the workplace has more than doubled since the 1960’s. As they increasingly become part of cross-functional...
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6 Ways to Retain Your Development Team
A good developer is hard to find. Between a combination of mad skill and pure luck, you’ve...
How Mindfulness Can Make You a Better Programmer
Maybe it was the last time you listened to a podcast, skimmed recent headlines, or caught up with...
How to Have Difficult Conversations at Work
As a software engineer, you may spend most of your time in front of a computer, but you’re...
Knowing Your Myers-Briggs Type Can Help You on the Job More Than You Think
If you’re a software engineer who’s completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, chances are good...