The best frontline eng managers in the world are the ones that are never more than 2-3 years removed from hands-on work, full time down in the trenches. The best individual contributors are the ones who have done time in management.
And the best technical leaders in the world are often the ones who do both. Back and forth. Like a pendulum.
Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.
Love is great. Love is necessary. Love is beautiful. But love is not enough.
Long term, I believe that your career will be largely defined by getting lucky and the rate at which you learn. I have no advice about luck, but to speed up learning I have two suggestions: work at a rapidly expanding company, and make your peers your first team.
Short, sweet, to-the-point.
When your team escalates to you, it is not always necessary (or wise) to "accept" the escalation. Sometimes, the right thing to do is to hand the problem back. That doesn't mean being unhelpful, though! The HBR article provides a set of really good questions to help frame these kinds of conversations:
- “What have you tried?”
- “Who—or what—is getting in the way of tackling this?” helps you get to the root of what’s stopping them from solving the problem themself.
- “What support do you need?”
- “What would you do if you were in my seat?”
- “Is there anything else I should know?” leaves them to solve the problem while validating your support.
Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.
I use feedmyride.net to generate an RSS feed of my Strava activities. I have been using feed2exec to parse that RSS feed.
Convert CSV files into a SQLite database.
Identify the custom emoji available on a particular Mastodon instance.
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
Automate your Strava activities! Strautomator is like IFTTT, but for Strava.
Find your Bluesky user DID with this quick tool.
Mobile First Markdown Notes integrated with Git
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.
Reading time: 5min / Summary: Shreyas Doshi became an important figure of product management over the years, thanks to his threads and insights about what he’s learnt during his career.
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