Leadership

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.

Autonomous agent loops don't remove you from the work, they relocate you — onto the spec you write up front and the big diff you review but never watched grow.

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 — but not the judgment that role is made of. A release, an incident, and a skill I'd outsourced.

Two rules every runner learns — nothing new on race day, dress for warmer than it is — and what they taught me about shipping on deploy day.

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.