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The Meetings Are the Work
You can look back at your calendar, see all those meetings, and think to yourself "I didn't do anything." That's the problem. It took me years to understand that those meetings are the work.
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I Give Advice 75% of the Time. I'm Trying to Get to 50.
I realized I was giving answers instead of helping a tech lead develop their own judgment—and undermining the ownership I wanted them to build.
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A Developer's Guide to Storytelling
The hardest part of being a developer isn't writing the code, it's explaining why it matters to people even if they will never see it.
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Let them fix it!
One of the most important lessons I've learned as a leader is that you have to let your people make mistakes, and when they do, they need to fix them.