Career Growth
Every Relationship Is Win-Win or Lose-Lose.
Relationships can only be win-win, or lose-lose, because they're a connection between two people.
David Anderson
People Managers
Three Career Mistakes That Made Me a Better Leader.
A few specific mistakes stand out in my mind as slapping a lesson directly into my brain. Here are a few of them.
Mid Career
8 Steps to Take After You've Given Notice
It can mistakenly feel like the process is as easy as giving notice and then leaving. But it's a small world, and you want to leave on good terms.
Career Growth
Three Factors That Make a Team Promotion-Friendly
Particularly as you get to higher levels, choosing the right position can make or break your promotion opportunity.
Career Growth
If You Can't Be Replaced You Can't Be Promoted. Career Growth Through Succession Planning.
Career growth, delegation, and succession planning are all siblings.
Organizations
The 5 Impacts of the Owner-Operator Model Regarding On-call, Operations, and Incentives.
By owning software end-to-end, at the expense of occasional annoying operational tasks, engineers are encouraged to build and maintain software the right way.
Career Growth
How to think about levels at companies
Understanding what promotions and levels mean at your company is fundamental to career advancement.
Newsletter
A Few Hundred Thousand Words Later, Here Are Some Quotes
Some of my favorite ideas, distilled into a few quotes.
Career Growth
Why Performance Management Works the Way It Does - Stack Ranking, PIPs, Ratings, and a FAQ
Most employees only learn about how performance management works at their company when it's too late. Here's what happens behind the scenes.
Mid Career
The Behaviors That Turn Engineers Into Senior Engineers
The gap between mid-level and senior engineers usually isn’t technical skill. It’s behavior, judgment, communication, and the ability to make everyone around them better.
Career Growth
If You’re Never Wrong at Work, You’re Probably Not Leading
The people who create the most value are usually the ones willing to make uncomfortable decisions before the right answer is apparent.
Early Career
The Ten Commandments of Maintaining Legacy Code
Writing new software is fun but a minor part of the software engineering job. Let's talk about the real meat of the job. Legacy code.