Early and late-stage hypergrowth. 🔗
Last week, a colleague asked why I’d hired an additional new leader onto an important area rather than expanding an existing leader’s scope to incorpo [...]
Irrational Exuberance
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Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks. 🔗
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improvin [...]
The agentic passive voice. 🔗
At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’ [...]
Judgment and creativity are all you need. 🔗
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations wer [...]
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion 🔗
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments. This is a writeup of the concrete steps I t [...]
Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings? 🔗
While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also ch [...]
Writing Visualizations with Remotion 🔗
Remotion is having a bit of a moment at the moment, and I decided to play around with the Claude Code integration. Here are a couple videos I was able [...]
Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving. 🔗
Despite my best efforts, I have been wrong a lot over the years. I’ve been wrong about technology patterns (in 2014, I thought microservices would tak [...]
Stripe's Lighthouse Hiring pattern. 🔗
I did a lot of hiring at Uber, some days I would be doing back-to-back 30 minute phone screens for several hours in a row. That said, while Uber taugh [...]