Leadership

On leading teams, growing engineers, and doing the work well.

• Aug 5, 2026 · 15 min read

  Leading Without Authority: Lessons from the Staff Engineer's Chair

  What it takes to lead engineers when you have no reports — earning a mandate, writing ADRs that land, building a bench of complementary working styles, spending your vetoes, and encoding influence into defaults.

• Apr 17, 2025 · 3 min read

  Core Principles Every Corporate Leader Should Know

  Seven leadership principles — influence over authority, emotional intelligence, vision, communication, adaptability, empowering teams, and integrity — with examples from leaders who lived them.