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Leverage
January 23, 2023
This past week was hectic for me, with lots of running around wrapping up roadmaps and goals for the year and helping managers understand the scope and...
Beginnings and Roadmaps
January 16, 2023
During the weekend, my mom returned home after spending three weeks with us. Yesterday I wasn't feeling in a writing "mood," but I wanted to keep to my...
Meeting Overload
January 9, 2023
Hello! Welcome to the new week of 2023! I hope you had some happy holidays if you took time off. Otherwise, I hope you had some rest from your normal day-to-...
Year in Review: 2022
January 2, 2023
I’ve been thinking about how to write this year in review as the year has ended. Things like do X lessons learned this year, but I couldn’t settle on a...
Growing People
December 16, 2022
Growing Others introduction, past week’s recollection This past week I was part of an incident analysis for most of the week, as well as identifying...
Filling the Gaps
November 7, 2022
Filling the gaps word-count This week I had a chat with my manager, and she told me how she generally sees me working on things where “filing the gap” is...
Heroics and sustainable pace
October 3, 2022
I’m visiting San Diego for GraphQL Summit. So I’m writing this from a hotel room. I think I panicked on the first day of the conference; perhaps I’ve been...
Context Switching
September 20, 2022
I’ve had this topic a few times in the past week, around how I handled it and if I had any tips. I think there are several ways I’ve tried to handle this...
Clarity
September 12, 2022
Change is always hard, but more recently, lack of clarity has been giving me headaches! It creates such a deep "fog of war" that nobody is able to give a...
Radiating Intent
September 5, 2022
It's Labor Day here in the US. My wife made a quick trip, and I'm alone this long weekend. So I'm writing this new issue next to my dog while he sleeps on...
Strategies
August 30, 2022
Per the usual night's restlessness, I’m lost for words. I’m looking, not for inspiration, but for motivation. motivation to start and carry on my goal of...
Managing Up
August 22, 2022
As I was trying to write this newsletter and going through what I had done during the week. Writing is always tricky in front of the proverbial "blank...
Collaboration Across Organization
August 15, 2022
For the past few months, I’ve been part of a few programs where another organization within the company wanted and needed to change our system to create a...
Alignment with Authority
March 1, 2022
During the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that I work away from my manager for long period of times, where I’m still required to provide a proxy to her org, or...
Mind the specifications
February 1, 2022
Mind the spec The first month of the year has gone by. I still feel like the year hasn’t started. For some reason, everything has been very slow-moving...
Keep climbing the ladder
July 4, 2021
This week I had my “mid-year” conversation with my new manager. As we were having this conversation, we talked about being aligned on vision, as I’m now a...
Digital Gardening
June 27, 2021
These past few weeks have been very tiring, and I had to work a few more hours than expected. But I also took the time to research tools like Foam or...
What's up with code reviews?
June 6, 2021
I recently saw this tweet getting on my feed One of the biggest cultural shifts in my experience from Mozilla to Stripe is code review speed. At Mozilla...
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