• Your tech leadership journey begins here 🚀

    Leadership Bytes for Coders Goodbye bug squashing, hello people problems! Your guide to navigating the tech-to-leadership transition. Your tech leadership journey begins here 🚀 Created on 2024-03-13 16:58 Published on 2024-03-13 17:06 Welcome to Leadership Bytes for Coders Hello, fellow techies! If you’ve found yourself managing people instead of just crushing code, this newsletter is…

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  • The Zen of Controlled Chaos: A Software Leader’s Guide to Staying Sane (or at Least Faking It).

    The Zen of Controlled Chaos: A Software Leader’s Guide to Staying Sane (or at Least Faking It). Created on 2024-03-11 15:40 Published on 2024-03-11 15:44 Think Cristopher Nolan won Best Picture last night just by some random magic? Try leading a software team on a shoestring budget with a release date already carved into stone!…

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  • Tik Tok Troubles

    Tik Tok Troubles

    Leadership Bytes for Coders Goodbye bug squashing, hello people problems! Your guide to navigating the tech-to-leadership transition. Tik Tok Troubles Created on 2025-01-17 16:12 Published on 2025-01-17 16:17 What can go wrong? It’s just a social media site—what are the risks? Well, for one, if you understand Chinese laws, you know that companies in China,…

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  • One Small Step for Devs; One Giant Leap for Your Code

    One Small Step for Devs; One Giant Leap for Your Code Created on 2024-02-02 17:33 Published on 2024-02-02 17:56 “Go big or go home!” It’s a battle cry echoing through boardrooms, whispered in hushed tones around water coolers, and emblazoned across startup websites. But for developers navigating the turbulent waters of software development, this mantra…

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  • OOP is Dead. Long Live OOP

    Leadership Bytes for Coders Goodbye bug squashing, hello people problems! Your guide to navigating the tech-to-leadership transition. OOP is Dead. Long Live OOP Created on 2024-03-27 18:05 Published on 2024-03-27 18:11 Let me start this whole thing off with a confession: I secretly love the “OOP is Dead!” debates that keeps flaring up online like…

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  • Outsmart the Bots: Essential Skills for Code Monkeys

    Leadership Bytes for Coders Goodbye bug squashing, hello people problems! Your guide to navigating the tech-to-leadership transition. Outsmart the Bots: Essential Skills for Code Monkeys Created on 2024-04-17 16:19 Published on 2024-04-17 16:36 Despite what those “get a developer job in 12 weeks!” ads claim, landing a gig in this industry can be tough. Plus,…

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  • The Parable of the Orator and the Reader: How AI is Shifting Knowledge and Wisdom

    Leadership Bytes for Coders Goodbye bug squashing, hello people problems! Your guide to navigating the tech-to-leadership transition. The Parable of the Orator and the Reader: How AI is Shifting Knowledge and Wisdom Created on 2025-01-10 15:09 Published on 2025-01-10 15:58 For the better part of 300,000 years, humans did something remarkable: we learned, retained, and…

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  • Positioning Yourself as a Master of All Things.

    Positioning Yourself as a Master of All Things. Created on 2024-02-08 22:39 Published on 2024-02-08 22:44 With the recent announcement of corporate re-sizing going on, I feel the pain that many of you are going through – being back on the job market after spending 15 years of your blood, sweat, and tears making whatever…

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  • The Power of Pareto: Fostering Sustainable High Performance in the Workplace

    The Power of Pareto: Fostering Sustainable High Performance in the Workplace Created on 2024-02-09 15:29 Published on 2024-02-09 15:33 Getting to 80% With the Super Bowl buzz in the air, the emphasis on star performers and winning at all costs often seeps into our work culture. It creates an unrealistic expectation that teams should be…

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  • The Power of Positivity in Software Development Leadership

    Leadership Bytes for Coders Goodbye bug squashing, hello people problems! Your guide to navigating the tech-to-leadership transition. The Power of Positivity in Software Development Leadership Created on 2024-08-05 16:33 Published on 2024-08-05 16:39 A few weeks ago, I shared with my team the transformational power of injecting gratitude into our weekly one-on-one meetings. The idea…

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