My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, w…| charity.wtf
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…| charity.wtf
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around…| charity.wtf
Brainology is an online interactive program in which middle school students learn about how the brain works, how to strengthen their own brains, and how to better approach their own learning. In the process they develop a growth mindset whereby they think of their intelligence as something they can develop through study and learning rather than as something fixed, as explained by our co-founder Dr. Carol Dweck.| www.mindsetworks.com
For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability... - Selection from The Staff Engineer's Path [Book]| O’Reilly Online Learning
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you g…| charity.wtf
Some notes about acquiring power that I wish I'd understood years ago.| honkathon.com
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a…| charity.wtf
I have begun to notice a common blind spot among engineers who are frustrated about leveling up, which is: not every opportunity exists at every company at every time| charity.wtf
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…| charity.wtf
