The engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down.

If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?

Most middle management roles make practicing executive skills difficult, and sometimes negatively select against developing them.

Nine stages of how people operate at work, in strict order, where each one is measured by a job it removes from your manager.

Why structured deduction stabilizes engineering performance under complex constraints.

Are activities motivated by an array of reasons much less useful than ones done with a distinct purpose?

‘What do you think?’ without a position isn’t a question — it’s a task assignment. State your opinion first.

Set your audience free to think for themselves.

The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works.

Quickly convert the number of words in a talk, presentation, or speech to how many minutes it will take to read.

When I realized there was no real way to move on in that career I loved without having to present my work to audiences.

Recommendations about candidate selection based on thousands of assessments and a somewhat obsessive interest in the topic.

“Disagree and commit” is disingenuous. Here is a better idea.

Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.

LLMs, humans and the old tricks that still work.

You don't need to be fatalistic about company politics.

You can decide what certain moments mean to you.

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. How to keep morale up?

How cultural norms like politeness, power imbalance, and rushed decision-making lead to fragile consensus in projects.