Tag: career

• Navigating Flight Levels

  25 August 2025 - Why management isn't about climbing layers, it's about knowing when to zoom in and when to pull back.

• Getting in the Room at a Remote Company

  11 August 2025 - If you want to influence decisions, steer strategy, or just be in the loop on the conversations that matter there's no shortcut: you need to get in the room. The...

• Four Pillars of Engineering Leadership

  09 August 2025 - A few years ago, a previous manager, laid out what he called the four pillars of engineering leadership. They've stuck with me because they cut through the usual management noise....

• Estimation, Pragmatism, and the Real World

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• Doing Leveraged Work

  31 May 2025 - For Staff and Principal Engineers, the goal is to identify and deliver leveraged work, efforts that multiply both throughput and quality across the organisation.

• Stuff I learned at cinch

  19 February 2024 - Today's my last day at cinch, where I was a Tech Lead across multiple teams for the past two and a half years. I've learned so much working there, and...

• Notes on An Elegant Puzzle

  24 January 2021 - Will Larson's excellent "An Elegant Puzzle" deep dives into every aspect of being a tech leader at modern software companies

• Notes on A Manager's Path

  10 January 2021 - Camille Fournier's "A Manager's Path" is a guide for navigating the technical career ladder