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Take that demotion
It's the perfect time for a switchback move
The Engineering Manager's role is under attack (again)
And nobody learns from past mistakes
When non-devs open PRs
My failed attempts to create a good system for handling it
Extreme Programming 1999->2026
Timely lessons from a 27-year-old book
The 3 product battles 84% of EMs lose
"PMs decide what, engineers decide how" is a bad deal
The death and revival of the hands-on Engineering Manager
The antidote to the AI-hype
3 things top 1% teams do differently
Hiring, parallelization, and why they stopped reviewing most PRs
Charting your team's knowledge & skills map
If you rebuilt your team again today, knowing what you know now, would it look the same?
Cursing the day Lovable was born
Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
The software engineering war
Most of us picked a side and won't budge. Which one are you on?
7 reasons experienced EMs get stuck
The mistakes that stall a career, even when you see them coming.
Building a code reviewer from your team's PR history
Github template inside ⬇️
The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic
When Claude drives you off the cliff
The generalist EM's reading list
7 books to easily catch up with non-engineering professions in tech (number 3 is a must read)
Surviving in the "chaos management" era
More "AI skills" is not what you need right now
"okay" vs excellent engineering teams
7 small gaps
The un-hateable engineering managers
The lie of Radical Candor and ruining an engineer's day
The engineering management memory crisis
For 8 years, my brain was enough. It's running out of RAM
The "Negative split" software engineering effect
Engineering teams don't need to 'just go faster' - the technique behind the sub-2-hour marathon
Managing a team that didn't choose you
The lie of the 30-60-90 onboarding plan: an honest self-retro after 6 months as an EM