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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

Published: October 11, 2024 00:15

Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero…

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)

Published: August 7, 2024 22:57

Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to…

Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership

Published: July 24, 2024 21:11

Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over how out of touch and lacking in self-awareness they are. We…

Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”

Published: January 5, 2024 04:14

I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any…