Tag: leadership

How Small Actions Shape Big Stories (and Vice Versa)

Echoes of Eloquence: 20 Life Lessons from Brian Banda

Brian Banda’s life offers 20 powerful lessons on communication, resilience, leadership, public service, adaptability and leaving a lasting legacy.

I am so very fascinated by the dynamic between power, ego and authority.

Tor Architecture and Cryptographic Anonymity

In a modern network paradigm dominated by pervasive metadata harvesting, upstream traffic analysis, and centralized data choke points, routing privacy is no longer a niche preference—it is a foundational pillar of structural self-sovereignty.

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

Programming Still Sucks.

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

Learn to Love the Rebuild

Refactoring isn't a necessary evil -- it is the job. Why the best product teams rebuild constantly, at every scale.

Learn to Love the Rebuild

Refactoring isn't a necessary evil -- it is the job. Why the best product teams rebuild constantly, at every scale.

Developer Responsibility Beyond Job Role

Why "That's Not My Job" Might Be Stalling Your Career

Dana Lawson - Netlify

Netlify CTO Dana Lawson discusses her journey from the US Army to leading engineering teams and Netlify's evolution into AI-powered developer tools.

On "networking" in leadership development

Selling exploitation and manipulation as a skill

The Door Is Open: AI-Powered Entrepreneurship and the Start School Promise

At SUMMIT 2026, Clint Betts asked a question that cuts to the heart of entrepreneurship: 'Who gets to be an entrepreneur?' The answer should be anyone. But that's not how it's worked. Until now. Start School and AI tools like Claude Code are opening doors that were locked for decades.

Slowification

Notes on Creativity, Inc

Strategists audit for progress

What makes an effective product team?

Lessons From the Field

Traditional project management focuses on scope, schedule, and resources, but success depends more on how effectively information flows. Learn how to evolve your approach to unlock higher performance.

Eraser or the Wrecking Ball? Planning is everything

The product development process is a virtuous cycle, and has a direct impact on how well your work gets done. It will also help your teammates to understand the work ahead, and to build better products harmoniously.

Eraser or the Wrecking Ball? Planning is everything

The product development process is a virtuous cycle, and has a direct impact on how well your work gets done. It will also help your teammates to understand the work ahead, and to build better products harmoniously.

Leading for Information Flow

Leadership isn't just about making decisions — it's about ensuring people have the information they need to execute effectively. Discover practical leadership behaviors that improve information flow throughout your organization.

How will we know

Effective engineering leadership optimizes for observable outcomes

Knowledge Emerges Through Conversation

Organizations invest millions in sophisticated information systems yet struggle to leverage what they collectively know. Discover why knowledge emerges through conversation and how to create environments where valuable insights naturally develop.

How Giants Fall

The departure of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger via a forced retirement only further underlines just how shaky the ground is for the chip-making giant.

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick Joins Bluesky’s Board of Directors

Bluesky's Public Benefit Corporation expands its roster by bringing in the author of "Protocols, Not Platforms" to help take them to the next level.

How love lessons can land you a great job (even in a down tech market)

What allows you to successfully navigate dating can also give you an edge in a competitive talent market. Communication, not AI, is the superpower.

Dani Grant - Jam.dev, One click bug reports developers love

Dani Grant shares how Jam.dev revolutionizes bug reporting with one-click captures developers actually love, plus her journey from intern to CEO.

Communication is the job

Book Summary: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Irina Nazarova - Evil Martians

Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians, discusses leading the consultancy behind PostCSS and AnyCable while balancing commercial success with open source impact.

Hanlon's razor

Defaulting to non-malicious explanations in incidents, postmortems, and everyday teamwork.

Taking Stock

My longtime fascination with T-Mobile CEO John Legere’s odd slow cooker social media promotion, now that he’s slow-cooked his way through a merger with Sprint.

Leadership In An Individual Contributor Role

Concrete ways individual contributors can grow leadership impact - mentoring peers, sharing expertise sideways, and shaping team practices without managing.

Making 1:1s Worth Your Time

Why 1:1s with your manager should not be a status meeting and how to refocus the time on growth, blockers, and longer-term career conversations.

Process Is Not Replacement For Training And Tools

Why heavyweight process and sign-off rules rarely fix recurring quality issues, and how training and automated tooling produce better outcomes.

Fall In Love With The Problem, Not The Solution

Why product managers should anchor on the customer problem rather than a specific solution, and how to avoid building the wrong thing well.

On Feature Ownership

Why the mini-CEO framing for product managers is misleading and how reframing PMs as feature drivers leads to healthier scoping and team dynamics.

It's about the curry

Get involved! Forming a local coding group for growth and community

Forming a local coding community where there wasn’t one and my takeaways from early community building.

Some things to consider if you're deciding whether to be a tech entrepreneur

I was taken by Status.net founder Evan Promodou's post the other day: Hackers make things; entrepreneurs make things that make things. This is a pretty succinct explanation of the difference between an entrepreneur and a hacker, and, I must confess, not one I fully understood when we originally set out to build Elgg. (It was implicitly present in my previous projects, and certainly has been in my projects since.) In short, it's not enough to build something amazing. Being an entrepreneur is a