How to Use Your Emotions as a Leader Without Letting Them Control You
TL;DR: In 4 minutes, you'll learn how to stop suppressing emotions at work and start naming them calmly to build trust, improve communication, and turn...
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Practical posts for tech and systems leaders who want their work to be seen. Start with a topic, or read the newest.
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MicromanagementWhy your boss keeps checking in, and how showing your work early makes it stop.1-on-1s and feedbackTurn status meetings into the conversations that move your career and your team.Getting promotedWhy strong performers get passed over, and what to do in the months before the decision.Burnout and workloadLead with impact without running on empty.Leading people and peersLeading former peers, managers of managers, and the people above and beside you.Engineering leadershipLeading engineers and technical teams: design, process, planning, and the work behind the code.Team communicationGetting the message to land: cascades, context, urgency, and the gaps that cause friction.Making your work visibleShow your work so the people who decide can see it before they have to ask.
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What Does a Good 1-on-1 Look Like?
I have been talking about one-on-one discussions with other leaders more often lately. Nowadays, people can easily switch teams and companies, making...
1-on-1s and feedbackIt's Your Fault You're Being Micromanaged
Are you frustrated with managers' over-involvement in your projects? Do they check in on your status too often?
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Why "Communicate Better" Isn't Actually Feedback
Category labels like communicate better describe a feeling, not a behavior. How to turn one into a situation, a behavior, an impact, and a better option.
1-on-1s and feedbackWhy Good Employees Get Labeled Bad Communicators (And What to Do Instead)
Nobody is naturally good at communicating. How to tell a mismatched delivery style from a real performance problem, before it lands in a review.
Team communicationWhy Frontline Managers Feel Powerless (And What Actually Changes It)
You can get better at every part of this job and still never get your hands on a wheel that was never connected to yours in the first place. Being a...
Making your work visibleWhat Technology Leaders Get Wrong About Confidence During Organizational Change
You are already airborne. The business took off before the transformation started.
Making your work visibleValidating AI Output Is Real Work: How to Get Credit
Validating AI output is some of the most useful work on an engineering team right now, and it is also some of the hardest to point to. I found out what...
Making your work visibleAI Notetakers in 1-on-1s: What They're Actually Costing Your Team's Honesty
Getting consent is the legal minimum, not the fix. A signature does not make someone forget there is a second audience.
1-on-1s and feedbackWhat Happens to the Work After You Delegate It (And Why You Rarely Find Out)
The work didn't disappear when you handed it off. It just moved somewhere you stopped watching.
Making your work visibleWhy Pushing Harder Is Sometimes the Problem: The Engineering Manager's Pacing Framework
There is a move that looks exactly like leadership from the outside. You see a gap, you respond.
Engineering leadershipAgentic Workflow Fatigue: Why Your Team Ships More and Enjoys It Less
One of my strongest engineers asked if she could go back to writing a chunk of our test coverage by hand. Not all of it.
Making your work visibleHow to Build Your Promotion Case Before the Decision Is Already Made
Most promotion conversations go like this. The employee walks in prepared.
Getting promotedReady to be seen for the work you already do?
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