My favourite books for new managers
One of the questions I often get from people considering engineering management as the next step in their career isContinue Reading
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Levelling up your leadership skills with practice
To learn a new programming language, you learn the syntax, the underlying concepts and spend time writing code. Engineering managementContinue Reading
Skip-level questions for software engineers
Skip-level meetings are meetings at a regular cadence between yourself and the person two levels above you in the corporateContinue Reading
Management books in review
I became a manager of a fantastic team in February. My standard response to a new role is to readContinue Reading
A few of my favourite kid’s books
Apparently, today Book Lovers Day. Reading a book allows you to escape into another world, and see the world fromContinue Reading
The Manager’s Path in review
I ordered Camille Fournier’s book on engineering management when it was in pre-order. I was delighted to read when inContinue Reading
Interviewing for a new role as a Engineering Manager: Culture and Alignment
This post is about ensuring you are are in alignment with your next role as an engineering manager in termsContinue Reading
Team brag documents
Julia Evans has an excellent blog post about writing a brag document as an individual to track all the thingsContinue Reading
AMA: I’m a (senior) staff engineer panel
Last week, my colleague Chenxia Liu and I arranged a panel at our Berlin all-hands meeting called AMA: I’m aContinue Reading
Data, algorithms and transparency for curriculum development
In the summer of 2018 the Ontario provincial Conservative government revoked the 2015 health and sex education curriculum that taughtContinue Reading
10 lessons from 10 years on the run
10 years ago I was preparing for my 10K first race in Ottawa Race weekend. I ran the 10K atContinue Reading
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