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Thursday, June 5, 2025
Dude, Where's My Strategy?
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I’m working on a talk about rewriting platforms for LDX3 later this month. Spoiler alert: a lot of the talk centers around why rewriting pl...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
10 Years of Engineering Ladders
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On March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder , with a quick intro ...
Thursday, July 27, 2023
The Next Larger Context
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“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an en...
Sunday, August 14, 2022
The Product Culture Shift
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Adding product management to more traditional software infrastructure organizations, sometimes with a shift towards platform engineering, is...
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Structural Lessons in Engineering Management
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Software engineers are attracted to formulas, algorithms, and structures. As people whose job it is to take ideas and turn them into predict...
Saturday, October 9, 2021
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors
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Most companies have carefully created separate senior career tracks that provide details of the differences between being a manager and bei...
Saturday, June 12, 2021
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
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For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond. How to run a meeting, and no, being the person who talks the most in the...
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