Management
The quiet work of engineering management
Ninety percent of the job is invisible: unblocking, translating, deciding what not to build. A field guide to the parts no one applauds.
Featured Essay
What I tell new engineering managers in their first month
You did not get promoted to write more code. You got promoted to make other people’s code better. Here is the uncomfortable version of that sentence, with the list of habits that goes with it.
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Hiring
The 20-minute interview that mattered most
We screened forty candidates for a staff role. The one I hired came from the twenty minutes I was supposed to be “not evaluating.”
Culture
What two workplaces taught me about meetings
Japanese and American teams run the same calendar with opposite assumptions. What I kept, what I dropped, and what I finally understood.