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Insights and mental models for engineering leadership and management.
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2026
(8)
Aug 05
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Effective Leadership Is About Outcomes Not Simply Interpersonal Skills
Leadership
#leadership
#decision-making
#interpersonal-skills
Jul 20
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AI-Driven Development Shifts Constraints to Judgment and Saying No
Leadership
#leadership
#ai-development
#clock-synchronization
Jul 15
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Tech leadership involves mediating excessive product requests and engineering builds
Leadership
#leadership
#engineering
#excessive-demands
Jul 13
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AI's low cost makes judgment the new core development constraint.
Leadership
#leadership
#ai
#clock-synchronization
Jun 18
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Design Document Gaps Foster Engineer Decision-Making and Issue Discovery
Leadership
#leadership
#design-docs
#engineer-empowerment
Apr 16
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Asking the right question is more important now
Leadership
#leadership
#ai
#critical-thinking
Mar 25
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Influence Is How Good Ideas Survive in Organizations
Leadership
#leadership
#alignment
#communication
Jan 30
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Weak Leadership Revealed By "I" Instead of "We
Leadership
#leadership
#communication
#ownership
2025
(4)
Sep 21
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High Probability of Bad Outcome Doesn't Equal Bad Decision
Leadership
#leadership
#decision-making
#risk
Jun 15
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Collaboration Is Better Than Competition in Many Cases
Leadership
#leadership
#collaboration
#communication
May 26
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Availability Bias Leads to Optimizing Visible Not Actual Problems
Leadership
#leadership
#availability-bias
#communication
Apr 10
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Setting Up Engineering Teams for Quantifiable Impact
Leadership
#leadership
#career-development
#engineering-leadership
2024
(2)
Oct 29
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Looking for Ability and Culture-Fit While Recruiting
Leadership
#leadership
#ability
#culture-fit
May 08
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Building a Blameless Culture for Team Success
Leadership
#leadership
#blameless-culture
#experimentation
2023
(4)
Dec 12
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Good engineering managers hire well to free up time
Leadership
#leadership
#engineering-managers
#hiring
Aug 09
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Three Key Attributes for Hiring Engineers and Leaders
Leadership
#leadership
#bias-for-action
#curiosity
May 22
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Ambitious versus achievable goals, learn both traits
Leadership
#leadership
#goal-setting
#managerial-styles
May 04
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Engineering Leaders Focus on High-Impact Projects
Leadership
#leadership
#engineering-leadership
#hiring