Brad’s Newsletter

Our industry of software development is undergoing radical change at a rate that we haven’t seen over the last 30 years.

The relationship between the technical leadership in a company can be complex and highly dynamic.

Creating environments which people feel comfortable in is critical to having a strong successful team and to reduce drama.

This is a little bit different of a post.

Early in my career I had a fantastic manager who would keep on asking “what are we managing to”?

It was the late 2000s and work for me was do or die.

Building a strong technical foundation is critical for the success of your product development organization.

The organization had just attempted the third rewrite of an existing system.

At one of my companies we were working through the challenges of building a startup, all of us on one team, but in another sense each of us were on an island.

For all managers there is a point in their career where they were working as an IC (individual contributor) and they made the step across the chasm to a managerial role.

Our current climate has thrown a lot at people.

Creating engineering values I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about how my teammates at Scoop identify how we want to act as a community.

If you’ve gone through the work of orienting your search and have found a few opportunities which look like a match for you, then you should be ready to embark on conversations with a variety of companies that may be a fit to your own personal values.

I had returned from taking a long break from work and was seeking to find a new exciting role.

We thought we knew what we needed to build.

As engineers we work in a space where we are constantly solving problems and making decisions on the fly.

The one thing that we have in life is our attention in the present moment.

One of the events that happens in most companies is the dreaded reorg.

As humans we are on a constant search for meaning and a way to orient ourselves in the world.

You find yourself sitting across from another person, resume in hand, questions prepared hoping that this is going to be the one and launching into another interview.