The Dev Leader Weekly series, sharing candid weekly reflections on career growth, engineering challenges, product dynamics, and life as a working developer.
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss how to make progress on a problem when you genuinely have no idea what's going on, and the prove-or-disprove framework I use to turn guessing into a data-driven investigation.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about getting your manager to prioritize tech debt -- why it almost always loses to shipping features, the two forces working against you, and how to reframe the conversation in the language the business actually cares about.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about the management trap -- why engineering management is a fundamentally different job than being an IC, how I think about absorbing chaos so my team can stay focused, and what you actually need to understand before you take that management promotion.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I share my honest take on a Reddit thread about ADHD, anxiety, and depression in software engineering -- and the concrete things I've learned about prioritization, burnout, and structuring engineering work around how your brain actually operates.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into an ExperiencedDevs Reddit thread from someone who feels their ideas always get ignored -- and why it's almost never about the quality of the ideas.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the Reddit thread telling someone to quit their bad manager -- and why I push back on the all-or-nothing framing, plus what to actually try first.
