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The Managers' Guide #120
nsights for engineering leaders on AI's true impact, empathetic management, navigating project despair, career decisions, and long-term strategy.
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The Managers' Guide #119
Is your developer identity limiting you? Discover how to redefine your role, protect your focus from constant pings, build a network that pushes you, defeat AI-driven burnout, and master the "observation + impact" formula for truly effective feedback.
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The Managers' Guide #118
Master modern engineering. Understand why LLMs are a "blurry JPEG of the web," how to build cost-effective architectures (FinOps), and why documents are a manager's most powerful tool for scale.
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The Managers' Guide #117
Make better decisions with rigorous thinking. Run complex projects smoothly and build products people love by focusing on interactions, not just features.
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The Managers' Guide #116
Become a more effective leader with this guide covering AI's "cognitive debt," the art of concise communication, empowering "normal" engineers, the difference between being liked and being effective, and strategies for managing the lows of leadership.
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The Managers' Guide #115
Is your prioritization framework flawed? This week, learn to master strategic urgency, disagree productively, and fix expectation mismatches with your manager. Plus: why your team needs more boredom.
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The Managers' Guide #114
Discover how pizza orders predicted global crises, why AI chatbots can be persuaded like humans, and the secret to hiring engineers who build great teams.
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The Managers' Guide #113
Feeding the error messages back into the LLM is the "banging the tv to fix the picture" of our generation.
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The Managers' Guide #112
No, I didn't "forget your name", I didn't store it in the first place, it's called being GDPR compliant. Lead Forward, Even When the Path Isn’t Clear * 🌫 When the road disappears, leadership shines — True leadership emerges not when everything’s predictable,
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The Managers' Guide #111
From what tech workers are telling me, AI has been automating the role of "CEO's annoying nephew who needs to be included in your project or you get fired" The deadline doom loop * 🔄 The Vicious Cycle — The core idea is the “Deadline Doom Loop,” a cycle
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The Managers' Guide #110
Moore’s Law states that every two years, we double the amount of time we waste on computers. The Software Engineer Spectrum: Speed vs. Accuracy * 📊 Challenging the traditional “junior-mid-senior” career ladder — arguing it’s too linear and fails to capture the different ways an engineer can be valuable beyond just
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The Managers' Guide #109
hacker: I am spying on you through your webcam linux user: omg you got it working? Eyes light up (ELU) This is the moment when your audience is viscerally, undeniably excited about what you’re talking about. Aim for ELU. * 🔥 Growth comes from recognizing patterns — Understanding common patterns in successful