Elided Branches

  This tweet got me thinking about change, and how software engineers (and especially, Platform teams) can drive cultural change throughout ...

Have you ever worked on a team that felt like it was just stuck in a rut? Somehow things were always just one fix away from improving: the n...

For the past 3 years, I have been running a platform engineering organization. Since that term is vague, where I work it means the software ...

A hard lesson for me over the past several years of my career has been figuring out how to pick my battles. I’ve seen many friends and coll...

I got feisty on twitter this week and wrote up some tweets on manager READMEs, a recent hot trend in management. Let’s break them down...

When I wrote “ The Manager’s Path ” I talked about what it means to work at the various levels of leadership, but I didn’t really talk as m...

I’m often asked about the characteristics of great engineering managers. This is a question that almost always has a long answer that invol...