I watched a newer team member spend most of their first few months entering data into a tracking system. Not because it was a learning exercise, not because it helped them understand the domain, but because the senior they were supporting didn't want to do it themselves. The...
My director said something offhand on a call recently that stuck with me: promotions codify what's already been happening. By the time someone gets promoted, they've already been doing the work of that next level, and the title is just catching up.
I've been thinking about i...
I have more personal projects than I can realistically work on right now. A shoe rack out of plywood, a decorative fence to hide the air conditioner, low voltage landscape lighting, enclosing the patio under the back deck, smart home automation, software tools I've wanted to...
I was reading a post on Hacker News - a list of rules for being a new manager. Good rules. But some of them really are rules for new managers.
I've been watching Gotham Chess's "slow-run" series, and it gets at this. He starts from a complete beginner rating and climbs, show...
Last month, Yum Brands announced that it's selling Pizza Hut to LongRange Capital, a private equity firm, for $2.7 billion. The deal splits the brand in two - LongRange gets everything outside mainland China for about $1.5 billion, and Yum China picks up the rest.
I've been ...
I was on a team that put junior developers into the on-call rotation earlier than we should have. The reasoning made sense on paper - they needed to learn the system, and the senior engineers were stretched thin. In practice, the juniors almost always needed to escalate to s...
I wrote a while back about framing problems with proposed solutions - the idea that "this is broken and here's what I think we could try" lands better than "this is broken" on its own. I still think that's mostly right. It builds trust, it shows you've thought past the compl...
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