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Last week I interviewed Daniel Vassallo on the podcast.

Daniel has an incredible and unconventional professional journey.

Here is what I learned from him 👇🧵

The real culture is what you reward and punish.

> “Let’s start by answering that question of how do you model behavior? And it turns out, in my experience, there are a handful of actions which have power and abilities far beyond those of mortal men to go back to the old Superman…

I discover Software Misadventures Podcast a few months ago, and really enjoy listening to them. Their recent podcast episode was great to listen to. Thank you 🙏😇

Full of soft skills tips to help you share what you learn with other in a « better » way.

Really recommend it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A common frustration as you start managing more scope is that there are tons of pairwise conversations on execution: new blockers, risks, prioritization, technical constraints, dependencies, etc.

Just take these 6 roles that are fairly common on product teams: PM, EM, Designer,…

I *love* 'Why Static Typing Came Back' by Richard Feldman. It resonates with everything I experienced the past couple of decades.

There's another historical trend that I think comes into play for the swings towards and then later away from dynamic languages:

youtube.com/watch?v=Tml94j…

Recently I finished reading the amazing engguidebook.com by @gergelyorosz, and there was a one idea that hit me the hardest. In the chapter about job switching, there is a statement that more senior roles require more tenure. (1/5)

My favorite technical blogs.

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In this episode, Thiago Ghisi shares a personal experience how moving backwards from #ManagingManagers to managing a team directly can, in some ways, be even more of a challenge. Such great insights in this.

'…that time spent creating runbooks and dashboards is largely wasted, because modern systems rarely fail in precisely the same way twice. And when they do, it’s increasingly common to configure an automated remediation that can correct that failure until someone can investigate”

New podcast episode out! 🎙️🔥

Last week I interviewed Thiago Ghisi, who is Director of Engineering at Nubank.

Thiago has had an incredible tech career. Before Nubank, he worked at Apple, Amex and ThoughtWorks. He is also a deep thinker, hosts a podcast and constantly shares…

“find the torture you enjoy”

Very happy to share this episode with Thiago Ghisi on the #ManagingManagers podcast. He has a wide spread of experiences from consulting, working at corporates/large tech, and what it's like working in a large startup/scale up environment as a Director managing managers.

I'm super excited to announce that the sequel to my first book is now in beta.

It's called Become A Great Engineering Leader.

It's about moving beyond managing a single team and going towards Director, VP and beyond.

Grab it here:

pragprog.com/titles/jsenglb…

Super proud of the episode of #ManagingManagers with Pat Kua that was just released.

Shared a lot of stories, perceptions & lessons of my own trajectory on the engineering management track for the past 7 years I hadn't shared before.

managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episo…

All 30 companies I researched ask PM case questions, from Google to OLA.

(Save this post to be ready for your next PM interview.)

Here's what they're most likely to ask: