- If You’re Missing This, Your Best Engineers Are Quietly Checking OutNo one announces it.There’s no “I’m disengaged” Slack message.No red flag in the sprint report. But you can feel it.The edge is gone.The curiosity starts…
- Manual Testing Is Too Slow. Scripted Testing Is Too Fragile. Here’s What’s Next.There’s a quiet war happening in QA right now. On one side: Manual testing.✅ Flexible✅ Human judgment🚫 Slow🚫 Expensive🚫 Doesn’t scale
- Why Visibility Breaks Down as Engineering Teams ScaleYou used to know everything. Every pull request. Every commit. Every roadmap decision. When the team was five people, you didn’t need a dashboard. You…
- How to De-Risk Early-Stage StartupsA lot of startup founders think capital is the biggest risk. But if you’ve been in this game long enough, you know:Money isn’t the bottleneck.Capability…
- The Five Modes of a Modern CTO (And Why Most Only Master One)Nobody tells you this when you take the CTO role: You're not just responsible for the tech. You're responsible for five jobs at once—each with its own…
- You Don’t Need a PM to Own the ProductYou’re growing fast.The backlog’s overflowing.You need help making sense of it all. So you hire a product manager.
- How to Scale Yourself as a Builder-Turned-LeaderIn most startups, the first developer becomes the de facto CTO. One day, you’re writing code. The next, you’re in investor meetings, managing people,…
- You’re Hitting Every Metric. And Yet...You’re standing in the middle of the war room. The whiteboard’s packed with diagrams. JIRA’s lit up like a Christmas tree. Slack’s pinging nonstop with…
- How to Build Empathy on Teams That Never Meet the UserThere’s a moment in this conversation with Anton Zaides I keep thinking about. He’s telling me about flying drones.
- Your Team Might Be Doing All the Right Things for the Wrong ReasonsEarly in my career, I thought if a team hit their deadlines, showed up to standups, and shipped on time, everything was good.
- "I Could Never Speak at Conferences" and Other Things Tech Experts Tell ThemselvesWhen I saw Cory House speak at my first tech conference, I immediately thought, "I could never do that." He seemed so natural on stage, sharing deep…
- You’re Not the Bottleneck AnymoreIt used to be that being an engineering leader meant being the team’s unblocker. Your calendar was a war zone of standups, backlog grooming, roadmap…
- The Tech Leader's Guide to Managing Up, Down, and AcrossHow do you get multiple stakeholders to agree on anything in a business? It's one of the most challenging problems technical leaders face today. When…
- What “Done” Should Actually Mean on Product Engineering TeamsA few years ago, I was running a fast-growing SaaS company when my CEO dropped a bombshell on me: “Matt, I need you to stop shipping new features.”
- When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start OverThere's a painful truth that most tech founders don't want to hear: sometimes a product that's "working" still needs to die.
- When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start OverThere's a painful truth that most tech founders don't want to hear: sometimes a product that's "working" still needs to die.
- Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team CollaborationSome people love daily standup meetings. Others hate them with a passion. I love them. And if you don't, it might be because you're managing them wrong —…
- Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team CollaborationSome people love daily standup meetings. Others hate them with a passion. I love them. And if you don't, it might be because you're managing them wrong —…
- Why Technical Founders Fail at SalesThe late-night text message lit up my phone: "I just can't do this sales thing. I'm an engineer, not a salesperson."
- Why Technical Founders Fail at SalesThe late-night text message lit up my phone: "I just can't do this sales thing. I'm an engineer, not a salesperson."
