Late Career
But It's Not Fair! How to Deal With Irritating Situations.
Numerous things in life aren't fair. However, complaining about it won't fix things. Let's focus on fixing things.
Dave Anderson
Personal Dave Posts
Insert Clickbait Title Here – Lessons After 1.5 years of Newsletter Authorship
Social media is silly and valuable. Newsletters can make money if you're patient.
Late Career
Proactive vs. Reactive: Understanding the Mechanisms Behind Effective Leadership
Reacting to situations means that the situation leads you. Act like a leader and use mechanisms to drive change.
Career Growth
Are You Behaving Like a Senior Engineer? Tips to Level Up.
Senior engineers distinguish themselves from junior engineers in larger ways than simply technical skills.
Organizations
How to Increase the Agility of Your Organization, Improve Quality, and Reduce Costs
Slowing down deployments to add QA is viewed as trading off improved quality for slower speed. I'm going to convince you that it also lowers quality.
Organizations
Why Twitter had 7500 Employees, and Startups Crush Big Companies.
Long-term vs one-time cost of product engineering is a core reason why companies grind to a halt over time.
Career Growth
10 Actions to Prepare Yourself for Layoffs
You can't stop your company from conducting layoffs, but you can prepare yourself to reduce the negative impact to you and your family.
Career Growth
A Guide to Creating Your Personal Brand, and Why It Matters
Your personal brand is how others see you. It can be created accidentally, or you can be purpose-driven in making your own brand.
Organizations
A Guide to Writing Status Reports - I'm Not Joking, I Totally Wrote an Article About That
Writing status reports has a bad reputation. Learn how they can be valuable, and a great tool for your toolbox.
Organizations
Stack Ranking, Ratings, PIPs, and Performance Management – A Summary
A summary of the performance management process, from ratings to stack ranking to PIPs, and everything in between.
Organizations
Decisions at Scale. The Ownership Model and Organizational Structure at Amazon.
Amazon's leadership model focuses on ownership and bias for action. Why does this help with decision-making?
Late Career
The Paradox that Great Leaders are Frequently Wrong
Great leaders are bold, and willing to be wrong. Occasional failure is inevitable as a leader.