This was a fun conversation and trip down memory lane :)

New podcast episode out! 💥🎙️

Today’s guest is Aditya Agarwal (Aditya Agarwal), 10° employee at Facebook, CTO at Dropbox, and partner at South Park Commons.

I absolutely loved our chat. We talked about:

1) 👥 Early Stage Facebook — its unique culture, moving fast and breaking

Consistently great topics and guests Charity Majors
Luca Rossi ꩜ Refactoring

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Really enjoyed recording an refactoring.fm episode with Luca Rossi ꩜ today. To prep I listened to a recent episode with Charity Majors, and I'm glad I discovered it. Really good stuff!

Good vs bad meetings ⚖️

A couple of months ago I interviewed Kathryn Koehler, director of Engineering Productivity at Netflix, and we talked a lot about… meetings.

Kathryn says she spends a lot of time doing two things:

1) 🧹 Removing unnecessary meetings — to allow

Today's guest is none other than Charity Majors (Charity Majors), CTO at honeycomb.io and my favorite writer.

During our chat we talked about:

1) ⚖️ Observability vs monitoring — what’s the difference, and what good observability enables you to do.

2) 💬 Intercom migration story

All teams are bound to lose efficiency as they scale.

As a manager, your role is about closing the gap between ideal velocity and reality