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100 hours of research, in 10 minutes.

Every week I read tens of articles and combine them with my own experience to give you only the very best advice, condensed in 1000 words.

Development Process: Setup a productive team. Create processes and make them stick.
Technical Strategy: Choose frameworks, tools, and make great strategic choices.
Team Organization: Setup effective career tracks, functions, and team processes.
Communication: Have great 1:1s, coach your people and make them happy.
Hiring & Onboarding: Hire great people fast, and make them actually stay!
Personal Development: Blogging, public speaking, and anything personal.

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It makes you better at your job: Whether you are a manager, a founder, or an engineer who wants to level up, Refactoring is your personal advice column.
It's like having a personal coach: But for real cheap. Share your problems via email or in the community, and you will get real actionable advice.
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You can expense it: My pitch to you (or to your manager) is that Refactoring makes for a great investment for you and for your company.
It pays for itself: If you just make one better decision, or use one of the discounted tools, Refactoring will likely repay itself for multiple years.
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About me Hey, I am Luca!👋

About 10 years ago I dropped out of my PhD in CS, co-founded a venture-backed startup in Italy, and started guiding engineering teams when I arguably couldn’t guide myself.

I have overseen scaling from zero to tens of millions of customers, enjoyed big wins, catastrophic failures, and everything in between.

I am a voracious reader, but I have always struggled to find high quality, reliable content that really spoke to my work. Something that would coach me into a better engineer, manager, and human being.

This newsletter is my attempt to write the advice I have always wanted to read.

I would love to have you on board ⛵

Luca (@lucaronin)

📬 Get a new essay every Thursday with practical advice about your work.

📚 Access a curated library of 130+ original essays and 200+ resources.

🎁 Get $50K+ exclusive discounts on dev and management tools

💬 Apply to join a private community of 400+ tech leaders, founders and engineers.

Trusted by more than 30,000 managers, founders and engineers