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Hackathons as an instrument of culture

We recently organized a Hackathon at Sirdab . The idea was to shake things up and explore AI for fun and profit. The event itself was super fun and it produced some impressive projects. But it's what happened afterwards that was more interesting. More than a week later, people in and outside engineering seem more upbeat, energetic, and driven to innovate. Some have continued experimenting with…

Do what you want mirrored

a heuristic for clarity

Necessary risk

A decision-making heuristic for low-information environments

Make your company handbook public

It's nothing but net

Should you do anything about a productive but overleveled employee?

What does underperformance mean, exactly?

Your company doesn't have to be for everyone

And that's a good thing

Hello world

Hi folks! Thanks for visiting my blog. In case the massive page header didn't give it away, I'm Sherif Nada. In this blog, I'll write about engineering management, startups, software engineering, and anything else in between. About me Most recently I was founding engineer-turned-engineering-manager at Airbyte where I built products and teams responsible for developer tooling, data integrations,…