Insights
Field notes on engineering leadership.
Practical thinking from the chair, on building teams, making hard calls, and leading calmly when the pressure is real.
Writing
Professional plate spinning
How I keep many projects in the air at once without dropping the ball, and a method you can use to do the same.
Read →I repeatedly build high-performing teams
My evolving ethos: culture and morale as engines of productivity, and engineering as a service to product.
Read →The five abilities
How I build infrastructure teams around developer productivity, cost, and five foundations beyond Google’s SRE.
Read →Critical non-essentials
The small, “optional” things that quietly decide whether a team trusts you, and why I do them first.
Coming soonCutting out the dead wood
Rot spreads. The obvious and not-so-obvious signs, and how to act on them without poisoning morale.
Coming soonManagement debt
Why delayed decisions compound like technical debt, and the cost of putting off the hard conversation.
Coming soonLet’s talk about where you’re headed.
Tell me what you’re building and where it hurts. A short conversation is the best place to start.
Currently taking a limited number of new clients.