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Jason and Eiso explore the implications of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to flatten Meta's management layers and examine the current ratio of engineers to managers, questioning if this balance is truly efficient or if it's simply a byproduct of Silicon Valley culture.
We’ve spoken to hundreds of engineering leaders in the last couple of years, and there’s a pattern that the best of them follow.
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Eiso and Jason discuss how engineering leaders can fall into the trap of midwit thinking (the infamous bell curve meme) where they have a surface level understanding of complex topics and use buzzwords to sound knowledgeable.
So, on Thursdays, we’ve decided to give you mental models, frameworks, books, and tools we’ve mentioned on the podcast (or that we’re geeking about atm).
Engineering leaders make hundreds of these decisions every day. That amounts to thousands upon thousands of bets.
Quick Deep Dive into a recent Jason Warner Analogy™
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath shares his lessons on engineering leadership, such as aligning goals, handling difficult situations, and optimizing team metrics.
Jason and Eiso share their love-hate relationship with OKRs and discuss the pedantic nature of setting objectives and how they ultimately help to align and empower organizations.
Jason and Eiso explore the intersection between finance and engineering leadership and discuss the importance of position sizing in engineering orgs.
