A slow-moving org can nearly always be traced back to confusion around company goals.

It’s why [email protected] always starts conversations with leaders who are eager to improve team efficiency by asking them about their communication style.

Careers page is up! frame.io/careers

Part 3 of 'Software and its Discontents' is out. This builds on part 1 and 2 to talk about the economics of software in the Internet era, and how it's changed. laughingmeme.org/2023/01/29/sof…

I've been trying to parse how and why different companies approach layoffs differently and I feel like there are some nuances that I'm just not getting. Some companies (Cisco?) have people work through their notice period, and allow them to look for new jobs in the company. (1/2)

'good management is critical to how organizations can effectively scale: that's what managers do, provide the critical resources that allow larger and larger groups of people to effectively collaborate' (shared in case it gets cut from the blog post)

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru, Rands prob'ly.

Local dive bar is open with 4 inches of standing water inside

Soquel Village. They just evacuated the fire department

Silicon Valley has a deep epistemological commitment to the idea that truth and plausible sounding bullshit are functionally equivalent.