AI Fluency: The New Non-Negotiable in Hiring
I have been talking to people in my network lately hiring managers, staff engineers, a few founders and a phrase keeps surfacing in different words but with the same spine: if some...
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When the Minimum Span Arrived Faster Than I Expected
I was in a leadership forum this week when the conversation turned to span of control. Not in the abstract. In numbers. There is a new floor forming: a minimum expectation that man...
The 1:50 Ratio: Is the "Pod" Dead and the "Horde" Rising
The 1:50 Ratio: Is the "Pod" Dead and the "Horde" Rising? For decades, the "Rule of 7" (plus or minus two) has been the gold standard for engineering management. The logic was simp...
Playing a Chess Simul: Are AI Agents Exhausting Our Best People?
We were promised that AI would be the "Easy Button" for engineering. Instead, I’m seeing something else: my highest performing leads and managers are reporting a level of fatigue t...
Are Engineering Managers Obsolete in an AI World?
So far in my career, our value as leaders was measured by how well we manage the machine optimizing for velocity, smoothing out team dynamics, and ensuring predictable delivery of...
