Nobody makes a principal engineer do the basic form
·1500 words·8 mins
Martial arts makes experts redo the basics on a schedule. Software has no such mechanism, so beginner's mind stops being a virtue and becomes a budget you spend on purpose.
Coaching
Name your DMN-time
·179 words·1 min
The 1:1 you're not having with yourself
·775 words·4 mins
You run 1:1s for your reports and hold space for clients. The higher you go, the less anyone does it for you — so run the meeting for yourself.
The drama triangle (and the way out of it)
·239 words·2 mins
Unblending: naming the part instead of being it
·225 words·2 mins
Five coaching primitives every engineering leader should learn
·938 words·5 mins
Most of what a leader needs to happen can't be ordered into existence. Five coaching moves that turn influence into leverage.
Clean language: hand their words back
·212 words·1 min
Taming the DMN (Default Mode Network)
·185 words·1 min
Ego states
·153 words·1 min
The righting reflex
·216 words·2 mins
TA strokes and recognition-hunger
·211 words·1 min