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Convincing or Instructing
26 Dec 2024
To convince someone, tell them why, then how, then what, in that order. To give an instruction, tell someone what,…
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Managing Expectations
14 Dec 2024
“This team isn’t delivering enough.” You’ve had a fully funded team of engineers working on a product for years. It…
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Stop saying Tech Debt
23 Jul 2023
If you gave two options to someone who cared about business outcomes, about what they could have, which do you…
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What are your engineering culture values?
20 Nov 2022
Perform an activity frequently enough, and you will start to see patterns. After being involved in the process of creating…
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Hiring advice for bootcamp graduates
12 Aug 2021
I’m currently trying to hire as many software engineers as I can, and more and more I’m seeing applications from…
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Manager README 2021
20 Jul 2021
It has been a while since I wrote my first manager README. The idea is simple: help people who are…
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Corporate values as memes
14 Feb 2021
This is perhaps only my second, and hopefully final, time where I play futurist. I’m going to argue that memes…
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Ready to start
27 Dec 2020
Thank you for joining me on this journey of learning the how and why of becoming fit, specifically concentrating on…
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Plateau
26 Dec 2020
The introduction to why getting strong is hard began with the idea that the beginning of the journey toward strength…
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Warming up and down
25 Dec 2020
You don’t just walk up to the biggest weight you’ve ever seen in your life and try to pick it…