Leadership

AI collapsed the cost of writing code and changed nothing about the cost of owning it. Velocity is a development-time number. The bill is a lifetime one.

AI gave me the throughput to cover a role I don't normally hold. It couldn't give me the judgment that role is made of — a release, an incident, and the human skill I'd quietly outsourced.

Two running rules I keep relearning at deploy time.

Juniors think admitting uncertainty ends a career. Seniors know it extends one. The script for saying it well.

Time in the game-master's chair turned out to be management practice in disguise: session zero, the spotlight problem, and the players who hijack the plot.

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.

When to push back on a PR, when to merge with a question, and when to actually block. A field guide to the comment box.

Most of what a leader needs to happen can't be ordered into existence. Five coaching moves that turn influence into leverage.