Leadership
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Build for Today or Don’t Build at All
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4 min read
Designing for a million users when you have ten isn’t strategy; it’s vanity. We hide fear behind “best practices” like microservices and complex abstractions, paying a tax on velocity for problems we don’t have yet. Stop hedging your bets. If you build the perfect architecture for a product that never launches, you’ve just future-proofed a…
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The Trap of the Hero
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6 min read
I saved the biggest demo in our company’s history at 3:00 AM the night before the meeting. I felt like a god. I thought I was the glue holding the business together. It took me five years to realize the truth: I wasn’t the glue. I was the bottleneck. We need to talk about the…
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Why Empathy is a Hard Skill
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3 min read
The modern workplace is full of buzzwords, and few are as overused as “empathy.” We hear it in every leadership seminar and read about it in every management book. But what does it truly mean to lead with empathy, and how does it translate from a lofty concept into a practical, day-to-day skill. For many…
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Focusing on the ‘Why’, Not Just the ‘How’
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4 min read
Many of us in engineering leadership have guided teams through the adoption of Agile frameworks like Scrum or Kanban. The goals are usually clear: improve collaboration, accelerate delivery, and respond more effectively to change. It’s a well established method yet one where it’s surprisingly easy to stumble into the trap of dogmatism. We’ve all seen…