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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It was a delight to talk with Elliot from Enginears a bit about how we organize ourselves at SumUp - and even more doing it side by side with Jan!As we mention in the podcast, cross-tribal …
I’ve written a small article on a topic I usually recommend getting deeper into to improve professionally - with the nice side effect of being usable in our daily life too.Funnily enough, …
Developing our empathy to be better colleagues and leaders Created on 2023-05-28 12:47 Published on 2023-05-28 14:12 I often get asked what skills are most useful to develop to be a successful …
I met Zahra during the React meetup we hosted in SumUp Copenhagen. I really enjoyed the chat with her, and her background - and I’m sure that she can be a great teammate for a danish tech team …
I’m a big fan of Ted Lasso. Not only the Apple TV+ comedy series about an American football coach who becomes the manager of a struggling English soccer team - but also Ted Lasso as a fictional …
It was really nice to host the meetup in our office in Copenhagen 🇩🇰. Great talks, both the organized ones and the informal.Meetups are great for networking, learning how others are tackling similar …
Interactions like this really make my day to day meaningful :-)Having the chance to work in a product that helps people run their business (or their good cause initiatives as this case) it’s a …
Or if you were luckier… be the leader that you had - and would like others to have too :-)1. Reflect on your experience"2. Keep the good parts"3. Ditch the bad ones"4. Make the …
While one could think “why celebrate if we’re equal”… that’s not fully true. Glass ceilings, lack of diversity, career truncation after maternity… Personally, …
What a journey: rebuilding a technology product while delivering incremental business value is an amazing feeling.Instead of doing “the same thing” (but better, don’t we always think …