management
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Worthless Intent
→: Worthless IntentOne of the things that I write about in my lessons learned from 6 months of managing blogpost was about my realisation that intentions do actually matter. “I’ve long found discussion of “intentions” completely worthless. I just don’t want to hear about it. Especially in the context that it invariably is – men who tell…
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Creative Coding Podcast
→: Creative Coding PodcastI was on another podcast! This time, creative coding with @seb_ly [listen]. We talked about managing coders, color theory, side projects, lasers, being homeless, interviewing (and applied humaning). It was really fun (but cold!) to record, and I hope you enjoy it.
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6 Months. 6 Lessons.
→: 6 Months. 6 Lessons.Last week marked my six-month anniversary at Ride, which also marks six months of being a manager. It coincided with my team being in Medellin all together for our offsite. It was amazing to have everyone here, and this was part of something I have been thinking about since I started this job – how…
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Book: Leadership and Self-Deception
→: Book: Leadership and Self-DeceptionI read Leadership and Self Deception (Amazon) years ago, several times. It was a book that profoundly changed the way that I think about things, the way that I approach the world. When some conflict arose at work, I saw how the ideas in the book would help, and tried to get everyone on my…
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4 Situations Where Managers Write Code
→: 4 Situations Where Managers Write CodeThe two hardest things about becoming a manager have been: 1) the emotional exhaustion, and 2) letting go of the part of my identity that was tied up in writing code. I accepted that writing code wasn’t the best thing I could do reasonably quickly, but it took longer to finally stop saying I was…
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I’m a Terrible Mentor: Here’s Why
→: I’m a Terrible Mentor: Here’s WhyI hate mentoring and I don’t want to do it. This is mainly a product of me hating three things. One-directional relationships. Other people’s priorities not my own. Giving advice. One-directional relationships are so exhausting, because you can’t really be open. Being a manager has – oh the irony – made me less open to…
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Management and Misanthropy with Cate and Camille
→: Management and Misanthropy with Cate and CamilleWe did a podcast.
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How I Run a Remote Team
→: How I Run a Remote TeamProcesses: Daily 123 in slack: 1 – what definitely will happen today, 2 – what will hopefully happen, 3 – what I’m filling in the gaps with. Daily standup: this is separate from 123, which I find is a better way to share?what. Standup is a little more about?how. Pairing: this just means “working together…
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Empathy and Mobile Development
→: Empathy and Mobile DevelopmentOne of the (many?) things my team may be tired of hearing from me is “empathy is part of our job”. What do I mean by that? Well as mobile developers, we are the closest to the humans that use our product. We need to have empathy for our users – what do they need?…