More Posts On Engineering Management
I've been continuing my posts on Engineering Management the last few weeks. To keep email volume reasonable, I'm going to continue rolling these up into...
A New Series of Posts On Engineering Management
Hi there! I'm spending the next 2 months on parental leave helping take care of our 2 year old, newborn and 8 month old puppy, so life is a bit crazy these...
benmccormick.org 2020 Roundup
Included below is my 2020 roundup post from the blog. Thank you all for continue following this newsletter through a year that has been quiet in terms of...
How Teams Go Faster
Hi all 👋 As I’m rebooting my blog / newsletter, I am continuing to play around with the format. This week I simplified my site design (it had gotten a bit...
Simple Burnout Triage
This week's post is relevant to all of us who are on month 6 of pandemic life. To paraphrase the footnote below A season is only a season if it has a defined...
Better Than A Guess
👋 Hi there! It's been a minute since I sent one of these, and while I'm not at a point in life where I'm going to be able to send weekly newsletters, expect...
Fun with Ascii: Putting some console art on my site
In addition to the post below, I have a roundup of 2019 up on the site, feel free to check it out! Fun with Ascii: Putting some console art on my site I've...
How Software Engineers Produce Value
👋Hi there! It has been a minute since I've been able to send one of these. I started a new job and it's been a whirlwind. I also have a one year old in my...
Book Review: Resilient Management
📖 This Weeks Article Resilient Management by Lara Hogan is a short and useful read for engineering managers who want to think more systematically about how...
Avoiding Derived State In React
📖 This Weeks Article A lot of advice in the React community is focused around avoiding explicitly storing "derived state" of some type or another. Some...
Lessons from Managing A Distributed Team
📖 This Weeks Article Working with people over the internet is different from meeting in an office five days a week. This isn’t a moral statement. I’ve done...
Lessons from Managing A Distributed Team
📖 This Weeks Article Working with people over the internet is different from meeting in an office five days a week. This isn't a moral statement. I've done...
Thinking About Values
Hi All, Before you get to the article, I'd love a bit of feedback from you. I'm starting to write more posts on leadership/management topics (the following...
Herding Lions
Update: I’m working on making some changes to the blog right now, and some inconsistency in posting will probably continue for the next few weeks. Should...
Obvious Things
📖 This Weeks Article I saw a tweet thread a few weeks ago that made me think: There’s a bit of a meme in some parts that there is value in saying, out loud,...
How To Get Better Feedback On Your Code
📖 This Weeks Article Deliberate practice [is when] (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific skill you're trying to improve [...] (2) you receive...
Ten Soft Skills That Will Shape Your Career
📖 This Weeks Article One of the most popular posts in the history of my blog was a list with the click-baity name Ten Things A Serious JavaScript Developer...
Consistency
📖 This Weeks Article The last few weeks I've had several conversations with a coworker about consistency in code: why do we do things one way here, and a...
Lessons from Six Months As A Manager/Developer Hybrid
📖 This Weeks Article For the last 6 months I've been serving as a hybrid developer/engineering manager. It's been an interesting experience, and because this...
Double Book Review: Deep Work & The Common Rule
📖 This Weeks Article I’m trying something different today. This is a review of 2 books I’ve read recently; I’m combining them because their similarities and...