Archive
74 posts from 2025.
- 11-13What Big Companies Get Wrong (and Right) About Creative Engineering
- 09-18“It’s Done” Is a Lie Without Shared Understanding
- 09-11The Skill That Defines Great Engineering Leaders (But Rarely Gets Taught)
- 09-04The MVP Mindset Is Dead. Build for Validation, Not Version One.
- 08-28When Product Strategy Turns Into Lord of the Flies
- 08-21AI Won’t Save the 20% of Developer Time You’re Wasting on Friction
- 08-14You Can’t Hire Product Thinkers in the AI Era with Execution Interviews Alone
- 08-07Delegation Isn’t Done Until You Clear These 5 Hurdles
- 07-31How I Vet a Technical Co-Founder
- 07-24What Kind of CTO Are You Becoming?
- 07-17How to Build Feedback Loops Your Engineers Will Actually Use
- 07-15500 Hours, 20 Years: What I Learned Writing the Engineering Leadership Playbook
- 07-10When Engineers Aren’t the Bottleneck Anymore, Your Process Better Catch Up
- 07-03You Can’t Build for Users You Don’t Understand
- 06-26The Feedback Ladder: From Code Review to Customer Insights
- 06-19Product-Led Doesn’t Mean Feature-Rich
- 06-12What It Means to Be an AI-Ready Engineering Leader
- 06-05If You’re Missing This, Your Best Engineers Are Quietly Checking Out
- 05-29Manual Testing Is Too Slow. Scripted Testing Is Too Fragile. Here’s What’s Next.
- 05-22Why Visibility Breaks Down as Engineering Teams Scale
- 05-20How to De-Risk Early-Stage Startups
- 05-15The Five Modes of a Modern CTO (And Why Most Only Master One)
- 05-13You Don’t Need a PM to Own the Product
- 05-08How to Scale Yourself as a Builder-Turned-Leader
- 05-06You’re Hitting Every Metric. And Yet...
- 05-01How to Build Empathy on Teams That Never Meet the User
- 04-29Your Team Might Be Doing All the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
- 04-24"I Could Never Speak at Conferences" and Other Things Tech Experts Tell Themselves
- 04-22You’re Not the Bottleneck Anymore
- 04-17The Tech Leader's Guide to Managing Up, Down, and Across
- 04-15What “Done” Should Actually Mean on Product Engineering Teams
- 04-10When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start Over
- 04-10When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start Over
- 04-08Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team Collaboration
- 04-08Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team Collaboration
- 04-03Why Technical Founders Fail at Sales
- 04-03Why Technical Founders Fail at Sales
- 04-01Engineering Teams Need Craftsmen, Not Just Artists or Scientists
- 04-01Engineering Teams Need Craftsmen, Not Just Artists or Scientists
- 03-27Engineer to Founder: The Critical Mindset Shift Most Developers Miss
- 03-27Engineer to Founder: The Critical Mindset Shift Most Developers Miss
- 03-25Why Most CTOs Fail: The Hidden Trust Crisis Between Tech Leaders and CEOs
- 03-25Why Most CTOs Fail: The Hidden Trust Crisis Between Tech Leaders and CEOs
- 03-20Why Your Developers Should Talk Directly to Customers: Lessons from AWS
- 03-20Why Your Developers Should Talk Directly to Customers: Lessons from AWS
- 03-18Why The Best Developers Are Already Great at Sales (They Just Don't Know It Yet)
- 03-18Why The Best Developers Are Already Great at Sales (They Just Don't Know It Yet)
- 03-13Why Your Most Logical Engineers Struggle with Ownership (And How to Fix It)
- 03-13Why Your Most Logical Engineers Struggle with Ownership (And How to Fix It)
- 03-11Great Engineers Make Poor CTOs: A Hard Truth About Technical Leadership
- 03-11Great Engineers Make Poor CTOs: A Hard Truth About Technical Leadership
- 03-06Your Best Engineers Could Be Your Biggest Communication Liability (And How to Fix It)
- 03-06Your Best Engineers Could Be Your Biggest Communication Liability (And How to Fix It)
- 03-04The Hidden Scaling Crisis Every Startup CTO Must Overcome
- 03-04The Hidden Scaling Crisis Every Startup CTO Must Overcome
- 02-27The Second Mover Success Formula
- 02-27The Second Mover Success Formula
- 02-25Are You a Peacetime or Wartime CTO? Your Company Needs Both
- 02-25Are You a Peacetime or Wartime CTO? Your Company Needs Both
- 02-20Stop Writing Better Docs. Start Having Better Conversations.
- 02-18Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Product Manager, Not a Project Manager
- 02-13Stop Talking About Tech Stacks in Executive Meetings
- 02-11Zero to $50M: 5 Hard-Won Lessons Scaling a Global Development Team
- 02-06Demo Days Bridge the Gap Between Engineers and Executives
- 02-04How to Run Effective Quarterly Developer Reviews
- 01-30The Hidden Costs of AI Development Tools: What CTOs Need to Know
- 01-28The Three Faces of Technical Leadership: Understanding the Critical Roles That Drive Engineering Success
- 01-23The Cultural Guide to Global Software Teams
- 01-21From Coder to Leader: The Challenging Transition Technical Founders Must Make
- 01-16Your Customers Are Bad at Explaining Their Problems (And That's OK)
- 01-14Your Users Hate Extra Steps
- 01-09The Art of Saying No to Feature Requests: A Guide to Making Better Product Decisions
- 01-07Building Features in Silence: Why Product Marketing Needs to Be Part of Your Development Cycle
- 01-02Why Industry Knowledge Trumps Technical Expertise in 2025