Leadership, Management
Leadership
Below is based on an internal doc I shared with my team at Hiro a while back. While there are a LOT of resources on 1:1s out there, I found that my team nonetheless valued hearing my perspective in my words. Feel free to edit / adapt to make your
Crypto
I spent a decade in your typical Silicon Valley companies. Then two years ago, I took a plunge into crypto.
Leadership
Most tech companies already have fairly apolitical norms and no one expects that their employer would actively champion every single cause they might care about. But issues like systemic racism and structural oppression of minorities aren't just matters of belief.
Leadership
Engineering <> Product interactions at tech companies are susceptible to common (albeit sometimes valid) stereotypes. Product Managers (PMs) might complain about engineers not acting with the right urgency or not understanding the priority; they might grumble about estimates being off and constant delays in shipping etc. Engineers, for their
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Much has been written about OKRs already, so I can't claim to offer any new insights. What follows is a "cheat sheet" of sorts I use for myself and to share with my teams. Obviously, this article assumes familiarity with the OKR framework [https://en.wikipedia.
Leadership
In a previous post [https://floatingsun.net/growing-without-baggage/], I covered managing technical debt at at early / fast-growing startups. As companies grow – in head count, in users, in infrastructure, in complexity – the same strategies will be insufficient. In this post let's look at how to operationalize management of technical
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Late last year, as I reflected upon 2018 and contemplated 2019, I started thinking the next chapter in my career. I'm so excited to share that I've joined [https://blog.blockstack.org/blockstack-pbc-adds-two-new-leaders-for-engineering-and-investor-relations/] Blockstack [https://blockstack.org/what-is-blockstack/]! Here's why. Backdrop Early on in
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How to manage technical debt in early / mid stage startups? Technical debt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt] is a fact of life in companies of all shapes and sizes. In early stage or fast-growing mid-stage companies, paying off technical debt often gets pushed back in favor of launching
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(if you don't know what a Manager README is, start here [https://firstround.com/review/the-indispensable-document-for-the-modern-manager/] ) Many people find these READMEs useful enough to have taken the time and mental energy to pen them down (checkout the examples here [https://soapboxhq.com/blog/management-skills/49-manager-readmes] and here [https: