A running notebook of short reflections, links, and longer essays about engineering leadership, product, and work culture. Some posts are imported from LinkedIn, and kept here as a personal archive.
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Leadership isn’t a job title. Management is. 🧭" " “Let’s clear something up: Leadership and management get mixed around like synonyms, but they’re different concepts. Sometimes they …
Leadership isn’t about staying in the spotlight—it’s about knowing when to step aside so others can step up." 🌟Being away of work and its packed schedules is giving me some quality …
Do you know the creepy feeling of entering a calm shop to look around and feeling stalked by the shop “assistants”? It ends up making you leave the shop uncomfortable instead of checking …
Would you like to elevate the quality of your work? ✨“Try one “trick”: act as if the work that you are doing could become public at any given time in the future.Your mails or slack …
Sunsetting 2024 with some relax… and thankfulness! 🏖️The end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 are being quite unique for me - as I’m writing from the beach at 30 degrees, far from the near-freezing …
Very excited to be invited to the panel to discuss how to stay technical while leading teams 👨💻 in Ignite Odense next Tuesday 19th.I find that it’s very healthy to stay close to the craft - but …
Nice! And… did you tell them?" 💭" " “That’s what you will hear me asking when I get “second-hand feedback” about someone else - both positive or negative. …
Nice! And… did you tell them?" 💭That’s what you will hear me asking when I get “second-hand feedback” about someone else - both positive or negative. If you have worked …
Or how, as an industry, we have perverted “agile” so much that it means “I use Jira and put tickets in sprints”, forgetting about the most barebones basics:Individuals and …
I keep my productivity high by working for myself or my project instead of for this massive AI-training database you’re building, LinkedIn!You almost got me there, ha! PS: do you know how to …