Tag: leadership

• 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.

• 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....

• Culture Follows Incentives

  11 July 2025 - If you want to influence how people act at work, don't spend time on motivational Slack posts or new processes. The real lever is incentives. Most of us like to...

• Finding Your Place: Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners

  12 February 2025 - Why engineering teams need different archetypes at different phases, and how mismatches quietly slow things down.

• 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...