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I make software in Durham, North Carolina. This is my site where I write about engineering leadership and productive product teams. If you're interested seeing more, feel free to subscribe. First time on the site? Start here.
2020-07-24: The Management Resources I Keep Coming Back To
2019-12-31: Fun with Ascii: Putting some console art on my site
2019-12-30: 2019 Roundup
2019-12-17: How Software Engineers Produce Value
2019-07-21: Book Review: Resilient Management
2019-06-23: Avoiding Derived State In React
2019-06-16: Lessons From Managing A Distributed Team
2019-06-11: Book Review: The Manager's Path
2019-06-02: Thinking About Values
2019-05-26: Herding Lions
2019-05-17: Obvious Things
2019-04-21: How To Get Better Feedback On Your Code
2019-04-14: Ten Soft Skills That Will Shape Your Career
2019-03-31: Consistency
2019-03-24: Lessons from Six Months As A Manager/Developer Hybrid
2019-03-10: Utility Functions
2019-03-08: Book Review: Deep Work & The Common Rule
2019-03-01: The Importance of Writing For Software Developers
2019-02-17: Strategic Coding
2019-02-10: Reusable Code In React: Inheritance, Composition, Decorators and Mixins
2019-01-29: Book Review: Info We Trust
2019-01-27: Improving Code Readability With Async/Await
2019-01-20: Designing Front End Apps For Reliability
2019-01-13: 6 Keys To Valuable Code Reviews
2019-01-06: What's involved in Front End Architecture?