Engineering Leadership
As tools for development have gotten better, the desired skills for engineers have moved from just pure knowing programming languages and frameworks (expected) to problem-solving abilities and people skills.
Gregor Ojstersek • Engineering Multiplier Archetypes
Great engineers don’t just elevate their own output. Great engineers elevate everyone around them.
Gregor Ojstersek • Engineering Multiplier Archetypes
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.comwhat is important is not the number of direct or indirect reports you have, it is actually how big, useful and ethical impact you can make
Özgür Özdemircili • How Did I Pass the AWS Job Interview and Become a Technical Account Manager?
One of the best gifts I was ever given.
When I was twenty-one years old, fresh out of college and about to start my first job, my father gave me a handwritten list of instructions.
Here are my dad’s rules for success:
> Do at least 10% more than you are... See more
Being an engineering multiplier means being someone who amplifies the productivity and effectiveness of the engineers around them, not just focusing on their own output, but elevating the entire team and the organization.
Gregor Ojstersek • Engineering Multiplier Archetypes
It’s less about the tasks, but how big an impact you can create. And engineers who can create the biggest impact have the multiplier mindset.