Leadership
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Teams, mentoring, feedback, hiring — the people skills that turn a strong engineer into a force multiplier. No MBA required.
Leadership articles
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You get what you hire
Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.
Code is the easy part, or how we refactored half the business to fix a janky script
This is a classic startup war story: Someone had built a leaky rowboat. It worked! Then we started flying the rowboat as a Cessna. What we needed was an aircraft carrier.