Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time - The Engineering Manager
We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.| The Engineering Manager
With a little bit of creativity, LLMs could be your new assistant. Here are ideas to help you improve your thinking to be a better leader.| The Engineering Manager
What does it mean to get into management in 2025? What is expected of you now compared to the last ten years?| The Engineering Manager
Sometimes your to-do list can make you not want to look at. However, you can use LLMs to kickstart your thinking on what to do next.| The Engineering Manager
We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.| The Engineering Manager
Writing to your team every week is a great way of building trust, calling out what's importantly, and letting people get to know you better.| The Engineering Manager
If you're running an organization, you need to make LLM adoption part of your strategy. If you don't, you'll be left behind.| The Engineering Manager
The classic question: should managers still code? Let's look at this in a little more detail. Being in the code is different from writing it.| The Engineering Manager
My daily system for gathering and processing information has evolved. I now work through a gather-decide-execute loop using Logseq.| The Engineering Manager
Macroeconomic changes, LLMs and efficiency. What should we be thinking about and doing as leaders going into 2025?| The Engineering Manager
Here's the books that I've written: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager and Effective Remote Work.| The Engineering Manager
Managers can delegate too much and lose control of their orgs and their output. Being in the details can be fun, empowering and impactful.| The Engineering Manager
If you lead a large organization, how do you solve teams that are asking for more people? Start inside out, rather than top down.| The Engineering Manager
Performance management season can be a real pain. But it's important not to lose sight of why we are doing it in the first place.| The Engineering Manager
Welcome to a little reboot of The Engineering Manager. I’m going to be trying out a few new things. Firstly, I’m going to get back into writing on a more regular cadence. It turns out that doing two books almost back to back is fairly time consuming. Who’d have thought? Secondly, I’ve migrated my mailing […]| The Engineering Manager
