The Baseline

𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦-𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 At 20 people, everything just worked. 𝗡𝗼𝘄? • Deployments break • Features crawl •...

𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 This question came from a founder-CTO last week...

Managing is about accountability. Coaching is about growth. Too many leaders think they’re being “supportive” when they avoid holding...

As teams scale, underperformance gets harder to diagnose. Some people need coaching.  Some need clarity.  Some are simply in the wrong...

Early engineers love to build. It’s why they joined a startup: to create, invent, solve from scratch. But there’s a trap founders rarely...

It’s not always burnout. It’s not always compensation. It's not always micro management. Sometimes, it’s something quieter: No clear...

Early in my career, I thought being a leader meant having all the answers. Driving the roadmap. Setting the pace. But the real turning...

Every startup takes it on. The question isn’t if—it’s how you manage it. There’s good tech debt and bad tech debt. Good tech debt is a...