Brad HenricksonTribal 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…4 min read·Mar 31, 2021----
Brad HenricksonIndividual 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…4 min read·Jan 24, 2021----
Brad HenricksonFinding 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…4 min read·Sep 15, 2020----
Brad HenricksonCreating 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…3 min read·May 6, 2020----
Brad HenricksonRunning 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…5 min read·Mar 14, 2020----
Brad HenricksonCommitting 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…5 min read·Nov 20, 2019----
Brad HenricksonThe 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…3 min read·Sep 10, 2019----
Brad HenricksonRenting 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…3 min read·Aug 14, 2019----
Brad HenricksonManaging 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…3 min read·Jul 21, 2019----
Brad HenricksonHow to reorgOne of the events that happens in most companies is the dreaded reorg. They come in all varieties such as, dealing with organizational…5 min read·Jul 2, 2019----