Leadership

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Teams, mentoring, feedback, hiring — the people skills that turn a strong engineer into a force multiplier. No MBA required.

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Relentlessly focus on the outcomes

AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.

Engineering levels aren't about skill anymore

Traditional engineering levels were about skill progression. I think this has changed. Everyone now is a mini staff engineer.

Just fix their PR

You know what's better than a code review comment? A fix.