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Spooked: Ghostbusters, Change Management, and the Domino Theory of RealityLearn how to implement engineering team change management from the best, the beautiful, the only — Ghostbusters.
2024-10-07
Learning to Crawl: Site Performance and GooglebotTeePublic's performance was on a steady decline. A baby was on the cusp of entering the world. I was clueless on both.
2024-03-17
CTO Interviews: A Perspective from a Hiring CTOInsights on how job-seeking CTOs can improve their interview performance, from the perspective of a CTO hiring a CTO.
2023-11-08
Navigating Big Tech: Understanding Platforms and Aggregators as the Little GuyYou might not be interested in Big Tech, but Big Tech's incentives and battles will shape your future. Here's how to understand the landscape and understand battle between platforms and aggregators.
2023-07-13
Fixing Bad Engineering Rituals: Cargo Cults and Chesterton’s FenceThrough the lens of cargo cults and Chesterton's Fence, this article provides a practical framework for understanding and refining your software team's rituals and processes.
2023-05-25
Engineering Archetypes: Pirates, Robots, and NinjasPirate, Robot, Ninja is a framework for thinking about the different archetypes of engineers. It's a useful tool for software leaders to understand their teams with.
2023-05-04