10x Engineer

I was a 10x engineer for 7 months and then I was a 0x engineer for a year and a half. You burn the candle at both ends. You end up with alcoholism and depression. You’re talking about a very small subset of people. And they might end up in divorce and financial ruin. When people think you’re a 10x…

What To Look for in Team Communication 

Critical thinking for team patterns and systems. 

What Your Culture Really Says

REPOST from my old blog. 

NOTE: This post was originally published in my previous blog. Because I am moving most of my active blogging onto Medium and this is an important post in terms of how I approach work and culture, I am…

Values Towards Ethical and Radical Management 

Beliefs, attitudes, aspirations, and values for managers. Build teams that are safe, healthy, productive and resilient; build management that is humane, ethical and anti-oppression.

Role and Responsibilities

How the Productivity Myth is Killing Your Startup 

You have to admire the insipid, dogged and naive devotion people have to believing they are going to get this huge list of things done. Even when presented with releases that slip by weeks and months, objectives and projects that slip by…

Reading List for a New Kind of Manager

The management complex that dominates tech companies breaks teams in a million ways, all…

Analyzing Diversity in Your Workplace

Towards A More Intersectional, Accurate and Useful Picture of Workplace Diversity and Employee Experiences 

Management Reform in The Valley

A cocktail of bitter irony and much hilarity as Silicon Valley tackles The Problem of Management with as…

Managing Junior Startup Employees 

When we talk about junior employees, we might be talking about a fresh grad entering the workplace, someone in their 20s beginning their first or second job in tech, or someone later in their career switching to a new industry or type of work. Junior workers can be…