Technology and Leadership
Amazing timely content: The Holloway Guide to Remote Work. I contributed as a reviewer and can say this is the only guide you need for recruiting, managing, supporting, and just being a remote worker. You can tell Holloway has been developing this content for months. And because of the web format, you can search for... Continue Reading →
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - SØREN KIERKEGAARD
It’s December 31, time to reflect and resolve. I’m incredibly goal-oriented and nearly always set a New Year’s resolution or two, but a year ago, I moved the process into much longer-term thinking. This year, I set both “life goals” and 2019 goals because a colleague (h/t Dobromir) shared his life goals with me. I... Continue Reading →
Just found out I made the LinkedIn Top Voices 2019: Software Development list! #9 Kathleen Vignos, Director of Software Engineering, Twitter What she talks about: As an engineering executive at one of the most famous tech companies in the world, Vignos posts about leadership as a way to "encourage and equip" engineers who are making "the hard transition"... Continue Reading →
"My utilization is too high! My latency is increasing, I've got too many cache misses, my search results aren't relevant, I'm way above the threshold and all my alarms are going off, especially in the middle of the night." Ever feel this way as an engineering manager - that your compute and storage resources aren't... Continue Reading →
Video of my talk, "Keeping up your technical skills as a manager," is now posted on YouTube, along with the whole playlist of all talks from #calibratesf. https://youtu.be/K9emor4-ewU It was an amazing speaker lineup - here are just a few of my fellow presenters. https://twitter.com/kathleencodes/status/1177703695921770496 And yes - it was just as much fun as... Continue Reading →
One of the most common questions I hear when mentoring engineers is whether a person should pursue engineering management. I usually take this to mean that they are actually looking for a leadership role, and I want to help them discern whether that might be as a primarily technical leader or as a managerial leader.... Continue Reading →
Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in regard. - ESTHER PEREL
In a crowd of attendees at the O’Reilly Velocity conference this month, I asked a room of mostly managers how many of them had coded within the past week; within the past 6 months; or within the past year (including side projects, open source contributions, etc.). With all three of those categories, we had about... Continue Reading →
