It was a privilege to aspire together.| blog.danielna.com
An unexpected source of management inspiration I’ve mentioned more than several times recently: “have you seen the ending to the movie 8 Mile?”| blog.danielna.com
Over the last several years I’ve had the opportunity to mentor several newer managers, and it’s one of the most rewarding aspects of my role. On a purely tactical basis I think scaling manager capability is the best (only?) mechanism to scale my own capacity, but beyond that I know personally how rudderless the job can feel without help. The internal feeling of underperformance as an IC isn’t great, but underperformance as a manager means you’re letting down a wider scope of people: y...| blog.danielna.com
Say an engineering team wants to change the behavior of other engineering teams, and for a very good, big-picture reason. This happens often on horizontal platform teams or at wider architectural scope. I’ve been in a lot of conversations around goals of this type: encouraging better test coverage, considerations of web performance/accessibility, adopting a different coding paradigm (e.g. TypeScript), moving to a new framework, etc.| blog.danielna.com
I was interviewed on an engineering management podcast! Listen to it on the web via managingmanagers.tech or on Spotify!| blog.danielna.com
I was recently inspired by this fantastic point about delivering “balanced” feedback from Randall Stutman. I offer a lightly edited transcript (for coherency) below, but it’s a better experience to watch the clip directly on YouTube via The Knowledge Project:| blog.danielna.com
I was recently asked for advice about 1:1s:| blog.danielna.com
Tyler Cowen, economist and prolific blogger/podcaster/internet thinker, frequently poses a question to his podcast guests:| blog.danielna.com
Summary| blog.danielna.com
I recently started eating the same breakfast and lunch everyday. This change, along with a few other small behavior changes, dramatically improved my work life.| blog.danielna.com
The two defining characteristics of the best coworkers.| blog.danielna.com
In a 60 minute meeting, you have 15 minutes, max.| blog.danielna.com
The how matters more than the what.| blog.danielna.com
Scott Galloway's take on the two types of effective leaders.| blog.danielna.com
You can only ship fast if you ship in the first place.| blog.danielna.com
How the IC and EM tracks are different, and why I switched back.| blog.danielna.com
Sometimes the scariest challenges are the most important.| blog.danielna.com
When you have no idea where to even start, ask more questions.| blog.danielna.com
Build your first team.| blog.danielna.com