There are some nice pieces in there occasionally, but if you ask me, nothing really replaces managing people on your own and A/B test all those things you hear

There are some nice pieces in there occasionally, but if you ask me, nothing really replaces managing people on your own and A/B test all those things you hear and read about in practice. Your personality is unique to you and you'll find external advice fitting your personal style in a believable AND effective way less often than you might think. Even from the same sources, you'll find better and worse pieces for yourself, like for example I adopted the super easy question from Joel Spolsky's "Guerilla Guide to Hiring Engineers" because it's a super good predictor for me, while I found his brainteaser utterly useless after testing both a few times. Lots of pieces on HBR are rather abstract and handle topics in a meta way, which I did not find very usable. As for me, I'd give my former self this URL for starters and then tell them to dive right in and find out for yourself: https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html Then again, that's the right advice for my own (very pragmatic) personality, so YMMV.