Absorb, Accelerate, Act as a Risk Sponge
Good leaders absorb risk to optimize learning rate, unblock teams, and break through indecision. A well-functioning team applies this fractally.
Ilya Grigorik
Distinguished Engineer and Technical Advisor to the CEO at Shopify, on a mission to make commerce better for everyone.
Latest posts
Guide to effective meetings
Separate social, info-sharing, and decision-making meetings. Effective meetings require a process owner, agenda, preread, and curated attendees.
Good decision-making is good process
Define the problem in own terms, take perspectives, validate signal, decide when to decide, and execute.
The Principal Engineer's Handbook
Leadership without management: the what, the how, the tools, and how to measure success as a Principal+ engineer.
Professional Aptitude vs. Tenure
Aptitude is the ability to perform a type of work. Tenure is the length of time in job. Their correlation degrades rapidly.
Making Good Group Decisions, Effectively
Good decision-making is good process, used intentionally. Key lessons and principles to apply in your practice.