On Engineering Leadership

The Hidden Cost of Frontend Design Decisions

Why your design system should be your friend

Sep 9 • 

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April 2025

Feedback Culture: Are We Just Going Through the Motions?

Let's talk about feedback – not the performative version, but the kind that truly makes a difference.

Apr 29 • 

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February 2025

What "Bring Your Whole Self to Work" Really Means: Recognizing Past Traumas

As seasoned hiring managers, we're always looking for people with a wealth of experience.

Feb 4 • 

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November 2024

Teams are immutable

About change and stability

Nov 27, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Leadership in Tough Times: Embracing the New Normal

By now it’s widely recognized we’ve left the Zero-Interest-Rate era and arrived in challenging economic times, in which we are facing a reduction in the…

Aug 6, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Hiring is your first priority - or at least should be

Make it easy on your hiring team and yourself by hiring effectively

May 16, 2024 • 

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Building a Culture Where the Hard Stuff is the Work, Not the People

Fight the problem, not your colleages

May 2, 2024 • 

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April 2024

Why Founders Need Passion (and Why Employees Don't)

As a founder, you're obsessed with your product idea, and that's a good thing!

Apr 11, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Avoiding Unintended Ripples: If you want productivity and engagement maybe delay that re-org you've been planning

How to Lead Your Engineering Team Through Stressful Times

Mar 26, 2024 • 

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The Case for (and Against) Manager READMEs

Friend or Foe?

Mar 19, 2024 • 

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A Guide to Managing Technical Debt

Threading the needle in a product engineering organisation

Mar 12, 2024 • 

Stefan

February 2024

AHA! Moments: Lessons Learned as an Engineering Leader

How practice shaped and changed my beliefs

Feb 27, 2024 • 

Stefan

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