Borrowing “exponential back-off” from networking to handle communication overload as an engineering lead: how to triage the constant stream of Slack pings, reviews, and requests with informal priority classes and respond with intention.
How AI is reshaping engineering management: tracking impact instead of story points, budgeting for capacity instead of headcount, hiring abstraction thinkers, cutting dead process, and a 90-day pivot plan to stay relevant.
Recognizing and handling impostor syndrome in the moments it hits hardest, drawing on Aviv Ben-Yosef’s “The Tech Executive Operating System”, with techniques like asking yourself Socratic questions.
Why real human multitasking is hard: unlike computers, we lack an internal “orchestrator” to queue tasks, so things fall through the cracks, and how to restore that orchestrator given our finite mental RAM.
What a day as an engineering manager actually looks like, where the time goes, the challenges of 2024, and the time-management framework from Aviv Ben-Yosef’s “The Tech Executive Operating System” that helped.
How to make high-level estimates in software projects with more confidence: the factors that shape them (requirements clarity, domain knowledge, team skill, company rhythm, cost of failure) and the ones I overlooked at first.
Comparing two office-seating models, flex desks versus reserved team spaces, with the real-world pros, cons, and outcomes I saw during an office move.
The delegation spectrum between micromanagement and abandonment, and why you should always retain ownership of the outcome even when handing work off, with advice inspired by Patty Azzarello’s book “Rise”.
A practical experiment in using a to-do list to run work and home life: why offloading tasks from your brain works, how I categorize them, the pitfalls to avoid, and which app to pick.