This is pretty great. Practical advice for a new VP Engineering. Includes this perfect gem: “Partner absurdly closely with product and make sure you understand priorities and the head of product understands tradeoffs”.

A pretty nice use of Quantum mechanics as an analogy for setting up management structures. Yes, people are not mechanical entities: “Setting up your team the way you would set up a machine can give you a ton of leverage — as long as you realize how complicated and unpredictable the people in that machine can be”

Thorough and useful: a deep examination of how to kick off a project well.

Very nice set of clear distinctions in the roles. They are different, and confusing them can lead to not helping when, as a manager, you want to help.

Interesting. Not sure I go along with the examples quoted (I’d have to guess that Juicero didn’t do MVPs), but it’s useful to have our religions challenged from time to time.

Some basic, but still helpful ways of digging yourself out of the rut.

Yes, gathering information, tools and approaches is very easy these days, and can lead to total paralysis. “However, the problem is that you do everything except taking action”. Quite.

This is a hard, but necessary read about a company culture gone badly wrong. Being “edgy” is not an excuse to behave badly.

Try and ignore the formatting and the giant ad for a book at the top. This is very well worth a read.

The transition from Founder to CEO is a special case of the move from “getting shit done any way any how” to leading people successfully.

I will be talking about the issues I have seen in coaching Founders (and working with Founders as an exec before that), and what works in navigating the transition successfully. Useful for Founders, CEOs and execs that work for them.

All welcome!