The two defining characteristics of the best coworkers.
My blog posts
The best way to win a debate is to preempt it.
The Tyrant, The Pushover, and the Peter Principle.
Hearts are fickle, CI failures are forever.
A fun interview on the Managing Managers podcast.
In a 60 minute meeting, you have 15 minutes, max.
Optimize feedback for reception, not delivery.
The how matters more than the what.
Regular 1:1s are an exercise in banking trust.
Scott Galloway's take on the two types of effective leaders.
What is deliberate practice for engineering leaders?
You can only ship fast if you ship in the first place.
Copy and paste text from Slack!
Eating the same breakfast and lunch everyday dramatically improved my workdays.
A post on the Squarespace Engineering Blog about the why and how of Engineering Manager Forum.
Building products versus building platforms.
How the IC and EM tracks are different, and why I switched back.
Sometimes the scariest challenges are the most important.
And, paradoxically, rid yourself of it.
Questionstorms
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When you have no idea where to even start, ask more questions.
Build your first team.
Run to the starting line.
Shipping is about intention, not luck.
A post on the Squarespace Engineering Blog about the architecture of our front-end translation system.
Accessibility is not a feature, it's a requirement.
Trust your smells.
Reflections on life, ten years post-cancer.
On the road to post-talk euphoria.
And thoughts on taste by Ira Glass
A post on the Etsy engineering blog about moving 2000+ files of CSS to SCSS, which culminated in me pushing a 1.2M line commit to Github.
Reflecting back on a year on the job.
Observations on the road to five months at Etsy.
Beware the empty train car.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
A post to centralize the advice I keep telling various people.
Lessons from a small wooden labyrinth of pain and suffering.
A side project, from my stomach to yours.
A work ethic story.
A sad interview.
Now accommodating desktop, 7" tablet, and mobile browsers.
A static-site revamp because rich text editors suck.
The single biggest performance upgrade to any laptop.
One of the greatest days of my life.
Michael Scott comes to life.