Tribal teamsAt one of my companies we were working through the challenges of building a startup, all of us on one team, but in another sense each of…Mar 31, 2021Mar 31, 2021
Individual contributor to managerFor all managers there is a point in their career where they were working as an IC and they made the step across the chasm to a managerial…Jan 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021
Finding balanceOur current climate has thrown a lot at people. Before COVID hit most of us were already operating at 100%, after we have continued to…Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020
Creating engineering valuesI have been doing a lot of thinking lately about how my teammates at Scoop identify how we want to act as a community. We have articulated…May 6, 2020May 6, 2020
Running the searchIf you’ve gone through the work of orienting your search and have found a few opportunities which look like a match for you, then you…Mar 14, 2020Mar 14, 2020
Committing to the SearchI had returned from taking a long break from work and was seeking to find a new exciting role. I didn’t have to have a job right away, but…Nov 20, 2019Nov 20, 2019
The value of contextWe thought we knew what we needed to build. Of course we needed and endlessly extensible search system to make sure we could build the…Sep 10, 2019Sep 10, 2019
Renting vs OwningAs engineers we work in a space where we are constantly solving problems and making decisions on the fly. We are weighing tradeoffs and…Aug 14, 2019Aug 14, 2019
Managing attentionThe one thing that we have in life is our attention in the present moment. Without it the world devolves into a set of patterns that we’ve…Jul 21, 2019Jul 21, 2019
How to reorgOne of the events that happens in most companies is the dreaded reorg. They come in all varieties such as, dealing with organizational…Jul 2, 2019Jul 2, 2019
