Leadership

6 pieces

March 12, 2026

Amplified

The technology industry spent two decades running its best people into the ground. Then it handed them AI and called it a solution. What gets amplified, it turns out, depends entirely on the quality of the signal going in.

Work-Life BalanceProductivityBurnoutGenerative AICareer Growth

Leadership

November 9, 2025

The Engineer as an Athlete

The instrument is the job. No serious athlete is asked to perform at the highest level while deliberately neglecting the body that performs. Somehow, we decided engineers were different.

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The Productivity You Gain, and the Generation You Leave Behind

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Leadership

October 20, 2025

The Productivity You Gain, and the Generation You Leave Behind

AI-assisted development has genuinely transformed what experienced engineers can accomplish. The leadership question no one is asking is what happens to the people who never get the chance to become experienced in the first place.

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Leadership

November 8, 2024

Looking Beyond the Résumé

We're taught to trust the résumé, but the most important qualities of a great hire are the ones you can't list on paper. Here's how to find the people who will truly transform your team.

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Leadership

October 28, 2024

The Accidental COO

A college board game, a company that did not last, and the accounting a second-in-command owes when the trust he built turns out to have had a blind spot in it.

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Leadership

October 14, 2024

Burnout is Obsolete

The 9-to-5 was built for an era that no longer exists. With AI automating the mundane, our greatest asset is human creativity—but you can't innovate when you're burned out. We swapped endless hours for focused sprints and discovered that giving our team more time resulted in better work, not less. Here's how the 4-day workweek stopped being an experiment and became our key to growth.

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