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 the perception trap around working hours -- why your start time doesn't define your work ethic on its own, but your hours absolutely shape what your team thinks is expected of them.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I break down how to think about measuring engineering manager effectiveness across technical, project, and people dimensions.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the shifting landscape of AI-related career fears -- from being replaced to being left behind -- and how developers can navigate the change.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss context switching -- why it's unavoidable, how startups and big companies handle it differently, and what you can actually do about it.
When your role shifts from coding to strategy, it's easy to feel like you're losing your technical edge. In this issue, I break down how to maintain technical depth without going back to being a full-time individual contributor.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I talk about finally stepping away from Visual Studio after a lifetime of using it, why Copilot CLI clicked for me, and how I'm using Roslyn analyzers as guardrails to stop AI from repeating its own mistakes.
