Leadership
4 articles in Leadership.
The Principal IC Playbook Nobody Shares With You
Reaching principal is the first rung of a new ladder, not the last rung of the old one. What nobody told me about the ownership-autonomy paradox, how leverage works at this level, and the charter model I wish I'd had from day one.
The Three Things Exceptional Engineering Leaders Do (And the One They Stop Doing)
Most engineering leaders excel at one of three pillars and quietly fail at the other two. The three are: providing direction, removing obstacles, foreseeing change. What it takes to build strength across all three.
Agency Beats Intelligence: How I Now Hire (And Evaluate Myself)
Raw intelligence is abundant and cheap. The engineers thriving in the AI era are the ones with agency: setting goals, acting under uncertainty, self-correcting. How I changed my interview process to find them.
The Async-First Engineering Team: What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)
I went async-first with my remote engineering team. Productivity went up. Culture took a hit. What changed, what broke, and the specific practices that made it worth it.