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The Empathy Bottleneck
These years, I’ve been leading a platform engineering organization that serves our entire product engineering team. I have a bunch of incredibly strong senior and principal engineers—the kind of creators and system thinkers who can crack th...
Somewhere Between Professional and Unprofessional is the Truth
Many engineering leaders are obsessed with maintaining a sterile, perfectly sanitized environment. They want every discussion grounded exclusively in KPIs, objectives, and outcomes. They want “professionalism.”
But here is a hard truth yo...
Stop Saying “It Depends.”
“Well, it depends.”
“Well, it depends.”
The End of the Traditional Coder
Why 2026 is the New “QA Shift-Left”
Today’s conversation around AI is entirely focused on the wrong question: “Will AI replace software engineers?”
Leader’s Week 2026: How I Lead a 50+ Person Org on a 4-Day Workweek
Revisiting my framework from the past years
People often ask me how I manage a 40-person platform engineering organization and the entire R&D Site at the same time, a few side gigs that grow into startups, and still log 1,500km a year trai...
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