“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Goldilocks Problem of Platform Engineering: Avoiding Over- and Under-Engineering When you set out to build […]
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“Premature scaling is the number one reason startups fail.” — Startup Genome Report, 2011 Too Soon to Lead? The Perils and Promise of Joining a Startup as a Senior Engineering Leader The mythology of startups is seductive. The garage-born idea
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“What is most recent is not always what is most relevant; wisdom comes from widening the lens beyond the moment.” – Daniel Kahneman (adapted from his work on cognitive bias) The Trap of Now: How Recency Bias Distorts Decisions and
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw Style vs. Content: When the Message Gets Lost in Translation There’s a common refrain in communication: It’s not what you say—it’s how
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“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson From Dysfunction to Dynamism: Building High-Functioning Teams with Radical Candor and the Five Dysfunctions Framework It was a Tuesday morning
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“Leadership is not about being the best. It’s about making everyone else better—even when you’re still learning yourself.” — Adapted from John C. Maxwell and modern leadership principles Blind Spots and Breakthroughs: Leading Beyond Your Limits In the late 1990s,
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“Never mistake motion for action.” — Ernest Hemingway Busy Isn’t the Same as Effective: Escaping the Trap of Activity Theater “Don’t confuse motion with progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn’t make any progress.” — Alfred A. Montapert In
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“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson The Mutual Mirror: When Engineering and Product Are Each Other’s Customers In the ever-evolving world of product development, one of
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“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson From Dysfunction to Dynamism: Building High-Functioning Teams with Radical Candor and the Five Dysfunctions Framework It was a Tuesday morning
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“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” — Theodore Roosevelt The Myth of a
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