A critique of traditional corporate hierarchies in tech, arguing they harm fulfillment and business by pushing people into management over their true passions.
Advice for former CTOs wanting to return to hands-on engineering roles, discussing skill refresh and career transition strategies.
A guide for founders on scaling by empowering new leaders, focusing on reversible vs. irreversible decisions in tech and product management.
A manager's guide to building and maintaining trust within a team, especially in remote and asynchronous work environments.
A tech manager outlines their role, core values, and expectations for their team, focusing on transparency, ownership, and support.
A guide on how to ask strategic questions during job interviews to identify bad managers and unhealthy team cultures in tech roles.
Challenges the view that management is a promotion and engineering a demotion, arguing for cultural change in tech organizations.
A candid look at the real, often unspoken reasons engineers become managers, challenging the typical 'selfless' narratives.
A tech industry veteran shares their experience transitioning from engineer to manager, detailing the challenges and questioning if they can return to an individual contributor role.
Explores intrinsic reasons why a senior software engineer might choose to remain an individual contributor instead of pursuing a management career path.
OKRs alone won't solve team communication problems; explicit, formal communication is essential for alignment, especially as startups grow.
A guide on using peer skill-sharing sessions to improve tech leadership and management skills through storytelling and mutual support.
A proposal for an Engineer's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to empower engineers and define healthy team dynamics in tech.
Mozilla announces new CEO appointment and leadership changes, reaffirming its mission to empower users on the web.
A developer's review of 'Peopleware', analyzing how poor office environments harm productivity and the benefits of working from home.
A software engineer's perspective on upward micromanagement, offering strategies for managing your manager effectively.
Explains how to use the REST interface in GlassFish v3 for server monitoring and management, supporting JSON, XML, and HTML outputs.
