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29
Sep 2025
The Art of Strategic Quitting and Knowing When to Say No
As an engineering manager, you're driven to build, innovate, and deliver. But one of the most powerful skills for long-...
29
Sep 2025
Your Team Is Not a Family but a High-Performance System
One of the most common metaphors in team building is the idea of being a "family." While intended to foster closeness, ...
28
Sep 2025
Stop Managing People, Start Managing the System
As an engineering manager, your instinct is often to manage people. You track individual performance, mediate disputes,...
27
Sep 2025
Manufacture Slack as the Counterintuitive Key to High-Performing Teams
As an engineering manager, your instinct is to maximize output by maximizing utilization. Every hour should be accounte...
25
Sep 2025
From Customer Value to Code as the EMs Strategic Blueprint
As an engineering manager, it's easy to get trapped in the cycle of shipping features, closing tickets, and managing sp...
23
Sep 2025
From Business Goals to Code with Backward Thinking
## Stop Building Features, Start Driving Outcomes The most impactful shift an engineering manager can make is to move ...
17
Sep 2025
Systems That Search for New Algorithms Automatically
An introduction to AlphaEvolve, DeepMind's new AI agent that uses evolutionary search and LLM-driven code synthesis to autonomously discover and optimize algorithms, outperforming human-designed solutions in several domains.
16
Sep 2025
How the Effort Paradox Harms Top Performers
Of all the paradoxes in professional life, the effort paradox causes the most harm to top performers. The better you g...
19
Aug 2025
The Theory of Constraints applied to software development life cycles
As engineering leaders, we often focus on optimizing individual processes—faster CI/CD, better code reviews, more effic...
06
Aug 2025
TDD with Coding Agents to Build a Rate Limiting Service
## Problem Overview We'll build a sophisticated rate limiting service that supports: - Multiple rate limiting algorith...
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