Engineering Leaders

“I also don't think you will need a designer for all things. Like so much of this is going to just come from vibe coding and vibe designing. I think many of the surfaces that you have a designer's waste their time on today can be done just as well by a product …”

“When a team gets too big, the person leading the team is no longer able to get in the weeds of the technology itself. And I think in a space that's moving this quickly, I think it's dangerous to have leaders that don't understand the technology deeply and are …”

“And what I learned for him is don't hire anyone where the first line in their bio, whatever, wherever it is, isn't hacker.”

“You must stay technical as an engineer. They can tell. They know when you're no longer doing that, and your credibility, it's not gone, it's just different.”

“The number one way that I see new engineering leaders struggle when they come to a company is they just assume the context from their previous company applies as is. And if you've got new leaders who come in and really make a mess of things, It's always becaus…”

“There's a way to be an impactful product leader and disagree and make change. And maybe your engineering leader and design leader and marketing leader completely disagree with the direction in which you're going, but because you have all of the data to support…”

“Being able to ask good questions is what makes you legit to engineers, right? If they feel like you actually understand what they're telling you that they're working on and can ask them like an insightful question about that system, like you get a lot of cred …”