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Information Gathering For EMs In The LLM Era - October 15th, 2024
Learn how effective information gathering turns you from a good engineering manager into a truly high-output engineering leader, with both intentional and passive systems for insight. Discover practical ways to use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to understand your business model, technical architecture, reliability bottlenecks, and org chart dynamics. Walk through concrete examples and prompts you can use today to map how your company makes money, how your code really works, and who you need strong relationships with to move the needle.
Ted Talk On Employee Motivation - January 25th, 2023
Engineering Management
Andy Grove's High Output Management and the Three High Impact Activities - July 19th, 2022
Another dimension of engineering management: The three highest impact activities.
Dimensions of Engineering Management Focus - November 2nd, 2021
High level framing to either understand your own career or to assist in interviewing/hiring engineering managers.
Manager Brain Viruses - January 26th, 2020
Engineering Management
The Chaos Monster - December 22nd, 2019
Engineering Management
Manager's Framework - Prioritizing Your Time - December 22nd, 2019
The Four Key Activities from Andy Grove's High Output Management, and mapping them to a simple framework you can use to min/max your time.
The 12 Best Engineering Management Posts I Read In Late 2019 - December 22nd, 2019
The 11 Best Engineering Management Posts I Read In Late 2019. Originally published seperately along with other articles as part of the weekly Seven For Sunday newsletter.
Responsibilities and Rights - November 17th, 2019
Engineering Management
Product I'm Interested In Learning More About - October 20th, 2019
Engineering Management
Fascinating Tweet Thread - September 8th, 2019
Engineering Management