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A bag of worries: tackling overwhelm with LLMs
If you’ve had periods in your leadership journey where you feel like you’re generating more to-do items than you can handle, then you’re not alone. Every day, you might add...
A weekly mind meld
Leaders can often find it hard to build deep trust and alignment with their teams, especially if those teams are quite big, or if the leader in question is quite...
LLMs: An Operator’s View
Many of you that read my articles are operators of some kind. You may run one or many teams, or even a whole company. And, even if you are not...
Should managers still code?
This month we have a mailbag question from a reader who asks: Hi James, Your newsletter “being in the details” resonated with me. I would like to ask your opinion...
Gather, decide, execute: reflecting on my daily system
Since my November article on being in the details, I’ve had a few people ask me about the system that I use in order to do so. In my first...
2024 Year In Review: Efficiency, Optimism, and Not Getting Left Behind
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been taking some time to step back and think about what I’ve seen, felt, and learnt this year so I can share it with...
Being in the details
It’s more important than ever to be in the details of what’s going on in your organization. Are you? In recent years companies have been flattening, creating fewer layers of...
Solving staffing challenges with concentric circles
As you begin to lead organizations that are of a reasonable size, such as in the hundreds of engineers, you will find that staffing is one of the most repetitive...
What does a date actually mean?
The bane of every software engineer’s life is dates. And I’m not talking about date types in programming languages, nor am I talking about programming with timezones. I’m talking about...
Become a Great Engineering Leader is now in print
Don’t worry — it’s not going to be just a promotional post this month. There will be an article as usual in a couple of weeks. However, I wanted to...