2025 in review.
December 18, 2025
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"Good engineering management" is a fad
October 26, 2025
Advancing the industry, part two.
July 18, 2025
Stuff I learned at Carta.
May 23, 2025
Career advice in 2025.
March 15, 2025
2024 in review.
December 14, 2024
Numbers go up.
September 1, 2024
Ex-technology companies.
March 22, 2024
2023 in review.
December 18, 2023
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Writers who operate.
December 7, 2023
Notes on The Software Engineer's Guidebook
November 19, 2023
A bit late, but I did leave Calm.
November 12, 2023
Grab bag of random thoughts.
April 17, 2023
Getting a job as an engineering executive.
January 8, 2023
Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile.
January 8, 2023
Lessons not worth learning.
December 15, 2022
2022 in review.
December 13, 2022
Downturn career decisions.
July 5, 2022
STAR method for interview questions.
June 20, 2022
Career checkup template.
June 5, 2022
The impact of less scalable work.
February 21, 2022
2021 in review.
November 23, 2021
The terminal level rulebook.
November 17, 2021
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How to be a tech influencer.
January 30, 2021
Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
December 18, 2020
Interesting work happens at the edges.
December 17, 2020
2020 in review.
December 10, 2020
Mailbag: Advice for someone five years into their tech career?
November 23, 2020
Finding the right company to reach Staff Engineer.
October 8, 2020
Deciding to switch companies.
October 1, 2020
Being visible.
September 24, 2020
Does the Staff title even matter?
June 28, 2020
My career story.
June 14, 2020
Mailbag: Evolving your engineer career beyond the career level.
February 13, 2020
Joining Calm.
January 21, 2020
2019 in review.
December 26, 2019
You only learn when you reflect.
November 14, 2019
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A forty-year career.
October 8, 2019
Some career advice.
June 22, 2019
Path to engineering manager of managers.
June 15, 2019
Growing with your company's complexity.
January 29, 2019
Meeting people.
January 26, 2019
Career narratives.
September 26, 2018
Roles over rocket ships, and why hypergrowth is a weak predictor of personal growth.
January 2, 2018