I recently attended an engineering leadership summit and the evergreen topic arose of whether engineering managers should code. The consensus in the room was generally in favor of managers continuing to contribute critical work for all of the standard reasons. These arguments essentially boil down to the argument that the…

I started baking sourdough bread about a year ago. I’d tried before to learn how to bake with the Tartine Bread book, but I found the instructions obtuse and overwhelming and I gave up after two failed attempts to get a “starter” going. …

Yesterday was my last day at Square. After 5 years, I’m moving on to try something different. For the past year, I’ve been leading the roughly 25 person engineering team for Caviar. I’m proud of all I’ve accomplished over the past year to grow the team, set strategy, organize the…

After spending the past year learning about great presidents in our past, I lament our lack of strong presidential leadership. …