“A few things to talk about in 1:1s with your manager”
a few things to talk about in 1:1s with your manager pic.twitter.com/GSc1LB87AE— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) September 5, 2018
“If you do 1:1s with your manager’s manager: what do you talk about?”
if you do 1:1s with your manager's manager: what do you talk about?— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) September 5, 2018
Practical Time Management
“The mistake commonly made is in thinking that their deliverable is “work” and everything else is “not work”. The critical thing about collaboration and team projects is that the deliverables matter but the connection of one person’s deliverables to another is what makes or breaks a project — and those connections can only happen by meeting, talking, listening, and planning. That’s why those activities are as much work as typing code or talking to a potential customer.”
A valuable skill – rands – Medium
“The trope is “Change is scary.” It’s actually not. It’s uncomfortable”
Navigating the bumpy road from engineer to engineering manager
A few years ago, I woke up and took a look at my work calendar. Back-to-back meetings from 10am to 5pm. Sigh. I rolled out of bed, checked…
Be Kind
“And I remind myself to be kind and see the potential in people. Give them a break. Just like Kevin did for me.”
Should I Become a Manager?
Advice for high performers in any company
The Shades of Change
“The trick, therefore, is to allow for some types of changes to be fast and fluid, while requiring others to be slower and more deliberate. Some changes should require nothing more than a quick chat, while others need a stakeholder meeting, and others need an all-hands company meeting.”
Better Meetings
As a company scales the number of meetings initially grows faster then headcount. With more people comes more coordination. Most companies ...
Edgar Schein’s Writing on Organizational Culture
“Edgar Schein’s writing on organizational culture, via Erik Hollnagel”
Introducing Practical Works
“I will never be prouder than when I end a contract because I’m simply no longer necessary.”
Engineering Values
Ryan Smith's personal web page
On Interfaces
“Finally, have fun. Software is amazing.”
Off Days
As you grow more and more senior in an organization, the time you spend coding is less valuable than the time you spend writing, and the abstractions you provide are at the social level rather than the technical one.
How To Lead
Credibility is the currency of leadership. If you read nothing else, if you remember nothing else, remember that. It will help you everywhere you go, and it will help you assess ot...
Handling Fires as a Manager
In moments of chaos he penalized people for pointing blame instead of proposing a fix.— Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane (@RebeccaSlatkin) August 17, 2017
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Barely Managing
CocoaLove focuses on talks which don’t deprecate as soon as you leave. In 2015, Matt gave this talk.
Matt lead teams that make software at Tumblr, and makes software himself with his partners at Lickability. His talk was about why you might want to step away from the keyboard and into leadership, and what happens when you do. It’s about the difference between managing programs and managing people.