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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🎤 Simplest hack to improve your next online meeting: check (and fix) how you sound to others.“Yes, image is a big part of others’ perception of us. But we have mirrors, can see our webcam …
SumUp’s Hackweek 2024 is a wrap - and what a blast it was! 🤩. I’m still absorbing how great this week has been.Do you know when, as a kid, you’re looking forward to the field trip …
Some matches are just destined to work. When Liza and I came in contact from Mirela from Product People we KNEW we had to do something together 🙌 They have such a great network of speakers and …
💡A mind shift to start being part of the solution, instead of tolerating broken things: replace “it’s not my job” with “let’s find out how to solve this”. 🪟The …
Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word - it means they learned it by reading.I can’t find whom to attribute this quote to, but think of this when working with people with a different …
When you manage people you are “management” - and you now have a new team you’re part of (in addition to your own).I have seen how difficult this can be, especially for first-time …
Seneca said, “While we teach, we learn”.It was energising to share some of the learnings with my peers at SumUp, and participate in the impactful global leadership program as a …
💡 Sometimes, instead of reinventing the wheel - it’s best to find the wheel blueprint, use it, and work with it. As professionals, we often grapple with transparency and accountability, …
Didactic transparency Created on 2024-06-22 10:12 Published on — One of the recurring themes in discussions of psychological safety and leading teams through change is transparency. In the …
Massive news from SumUp: as massive as a stack of euro coins adding up to €1.5 billion in the private credit loan that we have secured 🪙🪙🪙.This milestone is not just about numbers; it’s about the …