There’s a growing narrative that antifa is the problem. You don’t have to dig much to find people arguing for ignoring alt-right demonstrations in our streets. They claim counter protesting is what’s driving them to show up. I understand the appeal of that chain of logic. I realy do. It…

I did my first 1,000 miles on the Appalachian trail in 2009. This summer almost 10 years to the day I got to spend another three weeks on the trail starting right where I’d gotten off last time. Here’s what’s changed in the last decade. Smartphones The biggest one is smart…

I’ve been embarking on a project to make a backpacking kit without any plastic. Well, one that I like. I got the idea from doing a stone age backpacking trip and being struck by how neat it was not to be able to litter. Everything I had with me was…

Originally posted on the Auth0 blog: https://auth0.com/blog/what-can-only-you-do/ There’s a question I ask every new manager I work with: What can only you do? Remember when you first started working in software as an individual contributor (IC)? How everything was so hard and you didn’t even know what you didn’t know…

I originally wrote this as a letter to my team when I left my last job. Since then I’ve sent copies of it to several people so I thought I’d share it more widely. …

Structural oppression, systematic injustices, racial bias, glass ceilings… I don’t know about you, but hearing those phrases can evoke a bit of hopelessness. They feel too big to take on. The good news is that as an engineering manager you have real and concrete ways to tackle them. …

Businesses exist to deliver value to customers. In the case of tech companies that value often comes in the shape of software. When thinking about producing software in a business there are several steps: What’s the problem to solve and what software solution might solve it in a way that…

Why do we do code reviews? Catching bugs is nice, but code reviews are arguably and inefficient method to accomplish that goal. They are, however, an extremely effective method to ensure code is readable and well structured.Additionally …