The Engineering Manager

Over the last decade, much has changed in the role of engineering management.

Everyone loves the start of a project.

Towards the end of 2025, it seemed that we couldn’t get through a week at Provet without some kind of infrastructure degradation.

Read about AI opinion online and you get two camps: those who believe it will fundamentally reshape how software gets built, and those who see it as useful tooling but doubt the transformative claims being made around it.

Read about AI opinion online and you get two camps: those who believe it will fundamentally reshape how software gets built, and those who see it as useful tooling but doubt the transformative claims being made around it.

This month, we’re going to explore a practical technique for learning from leaders you’ll never have access to: distilling their thinking into an AI role you can query on demand.

This month, we’re going to explore a question that is a pertinent topic right now: where are the senior engineers of the future going to come from?

This month, we’re going to explore what might be the most counterintuitive practice in the age of AI: knowing when to slow down.

This month, we’re going to explore one of the most powerful forcing functions available to leaders: the single prioritized list.

This month, we’re going to think about our teams, departments, and organisations as systems.

This month, we’re going to continue exploring the mental models that Charlie Munger covered in Poor Charlie’s Almanack, a compendium of 11 talks given throughout his life.