Leadership

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

• Sep 27, 2026 · 17 min read

  Learning to Build Software When AI Writes the Code

  A working process for junior developers in the AI era — taking a ticket from question to production, what to hand to the AI and what to keep, how to learn without letting the tool learn for you, and what reviewers actually look for.

• Aug 9, 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.