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LinkedIn has become really noisy with folks espousing extreme productivity thanks to AI.

It is a scary time for many software engineers.

One theme at Dagster is speed.

With the introduction of tools like Claude Code, managing your environment gets little more complicated.

Simple thing are always complex.

I have a theory that I’m calling the Law of Data Transformation.

I’ve been thinking a lot about team velocity.

I’ve noticed that people often like to break down problems into hierarchies.

We’ve been building a house for my in-laws and it has been really interesting to watch things come together.

Organizations often focus on results over anything else.

As an Engineering Manager, I’m often trying to coach my team members to think about how to break down tasks.

As a manager, I review a lot of resumes.

As a long time Emacs user and org-mode user, I was hopeful that org-roam could tame the plethora of paths offered for taking notes and keeping track of information.

One inevitable part of engineering management is some form of ticket management.

It shouldn’t be surprising that as a manger, you have a lot of meetings.

One of the hardest things going from programming to managing has been the change in output.

The beginning of this year I made a commitment to write at least once a week .

One thing that is always hard when you’re new to something is knowing how to get started.

I made a commitment to write more this year.

There are times in your career where you need to make some decision.

One challenge I’ve found is how to fail and learn without ruining plans and losing trust.

I mentioned to a mentor of mine that there are tons of resource for working with people as a manager, but there are so few resources for the nuts and bolts of the job.

Every so often I get tired of looking at the same old screens.

Isn’t there some other email and calendar other than G Suite?

When I’m in meetings, I try to take notes.

Trying to understand your audience by asking those around you.

I’ve started to relearn JavaScript after taking a long hiatus.

I’m looking for someone to join my team!

My attempt to understand tactics, strategy, mission and vision as it pertains to organizations.

I’ve heard that manager READMEs are bad .

Long ago I used my blog as a means of learning things like programming languages, databases, etc.