Tag: dri your career
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Force Multipliers
It’s harder than ever to be an engineering manager. Fewer resources, higher expectations, and a public conversation actively questioning whether the role should exist at all. Less support than ever, in a job that already often felt hard and lonely. That’s why Jean and I built the Engineering Manager Survival Guide – and I’m so…
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The First Cohort
Earlier this year, Jean and I ran the first cohort of DRI Your Career — a course we’d spent the better part of a year building together. We had high hopes. But the first time you do something — you can believe in it, but you can only really hope. I am so happy with…
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Resisting Capitalism’s Shoulds
I’ve been feeling pretty mad about capitalism lately. One of the core things I’ve been angry about is realizing that capitalism is a huge source of “shoulds” and fake productivity. The goal of capitalism is to keep us running, keep us consuming, and to distract us from what is actually meaningful to us as human…
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Announcing: DRI Your Career
When I wrote part 1 of The Engineering Leader, about what it means to be the DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) of your career, it was a product of some hard won lessons of my own, conversations with friends, and an arc I saw repeatedly with my 1:1 coaching clients. Talking with my long time friend…