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If Your System Never Fails, That’s the Real Failure
The AWS Outage—Lessons on Worst-Case Scenarios
8 Ways to Stop Being Crushed by Infinite Work
The 4 Major Impacts of Amazon's Decentralization and Ownership Model
4 Problems Managers Run Into - and Practical Solutions
The 5 Whys in Action: How to Turn Human Mistakes Into Lasting Improvements
I'll Explain How I Defeated Procrastination, Right After I Watch Another YouTube Video
Day 1 Is About Doing What’s Right. Day 2 Is About Getting Promoted.
Work Hard, Stay Busy, and Stay Exactly Where You Are
Blockers Are Urgent, While Friction Endures
Customer Obsession Means Listening Harder—Not Measuring Harder
“Are Right, a Lot”: The Most Misunderstood Amazon Leadership Principle
4 Steps to Delegate (Give Away) Your Work—And Become a Better Leader
8 Lessons for Work, Life, and Everything in Between
AI and the Imminent Death of Capitalism
More Engineers = Less Output? The Costs of Growth.
How AI Helps (and Doesn’t Help) with My 70k Reader Newsletter
The Hidden Cost of Process: A Guide for Tech Leaders
KPIs Gone Wild: Cautionary Tales of Lost Customer Obsession
From One-Way to Two-Way Doors: Rethinking How We Make Big Decisions
Your Boss Thinks You Suck. Now What?
Delegate Delegation — An Upgrade to the Common Delegation Practice of Micro Management
You Must Find a Passion Project - AKA How to Avoid Being a Boring Human
Resolve Risk First - Why Complexity and Ambiguity Not Effort Should Dictate Your Focus
How to Both Embrace and Defeat Imposter Syndrome
Inside a High-Severity Outage: A Late Night Sev-2 at Amazon
13 Tech Career Misconceptions — Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier
Heard of Design Patterns? How About Behavior Patterns.
Writing and Speaking Clearly and Concisely - Upgrading Your Communication
Why You Should Give Feedback — And How to Deliver It Without the Awkward Crying
A Time When I Was Tricked Into Being Honest — Bringing Facts Into Work Discussions
Do Jerks Get Hired For Management Roles, or Does Management Create Jerks?
The Art of Simplification: Why We (over) Build When We Should Simplify
The 150 Point Rule of Thumb. How to Strategically Approach Career Pivots.
The Six Steps to Saying No — Why Being a Team Player is Not Necessarily Great
Failure is Necessary for Achievement and Growth — Why Success is Dangerous for Learning
From Star Employee to Struggling Leader — A Simple Explanation of Your Manager's Incompetence
You Can't Schedule Creativity: Putting Inspiration Into Your Outlook Calendar
The Hidden Advantage of Sharp Edges — Why Being Disagreeable is Best
4 Common But Insidious Patterns That Derail Software Projects
Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output