Last weekend I happened to pick up a book called “Rituals For Work: 50 Ways To Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, And A Culture That Can Adapt To Change.” It’s a super quick read,…| charity.wtf
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 book, An Elegant Puzzle, which will be available in late May, 2019. This is something I’ve been working on over the past year, and which I’m extraordinarily excited to share!| lethain.com
At Honeycomb, our mission is to give all software engineers the observability they need to improve their processes & delight their users. Learn more now!| Honeycomb
In January 2022, Honeycomb kicked off a one year experiment to have an employee board member. Join Alyson as she describes her experience.| Honeycomb
Honeycomb announces $50 million Series D funding round led by Headline, a Honeycomb backer since 2018. Learn more about the announcement.| Honeycomb
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
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.| Dan McKinley :: Math, Programming, and Minority Reports
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Eve…| charity.wtf