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Staff Engineering and AI
Second-time staff engineering lessons on taking up space, building incremental progress, and navigating organizational narratives — and why AI makes all of it harder by trading coherence for speed.
read articleHow Do You Assess a Staff(+) Engineering Candidate?
Thoughts on the challenges and opportunities of evaluating the staff engineering role.
read articleHow Much Project Management should a Software Engineer Do?
Parsing out what good (versus toxic) project management and technical leadership looks like as an individual contributor can be hard, lets' talk about some good and bad examples.
read articleReflections on a Year as a Staff Engineer
Looking back a year later and seeing how accurate my predictions about becoming a staff engineer were.
read articleA (Deeply Incomplete) Review of The Staff Engineer's Path
My thoughts on The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly.
read articleBeing Visible to the People You Lead
The challenges and benefits of proactively showcasing your work to the people you lead, in addition to the people who manage you.
read articleBecoming a Staff Engineer
My strongest opinions about becoming a staff engineer
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