Engineering Leadership - 2025
A chronological archive of Engineering Leadership reading list posts.
2025
October 2025
🔗 9 Activities that a Great, Amazing, and an Exceptional Manager should do.
🔗 The Tiny Teams Playbook - by Shawn swyx Wang
🔗 Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)
🔗 Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering
🔗 The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit – Unworkable Ideas
🔗 The Hidden Architecture of Engineering
🔗 Engineering Leader’s Guide: How to Become a Great Coach and Mentor
September 2025
🔗 AI - What CEO's get wrong about prototypes
🔗 A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture: Why Capability Doesn't Equal Adoption
🔗 Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer
🔗 The Last Days of the Managerial Class | by Ryan Moser | Sep, 2025
August 2025
July 2025
🔗 How Engineers and PMs should collaborate on Evals
🔗 How To Care About Your Job When It Doesn't Care About You
🔗 Flounder Mode - Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
June 2025
🔗 The Pulse #137: Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
🔗 The SPACE of Developer Productivity
🔗 Why most Tech Strategies fail
🔗 ADEPT: The Product Discovery Framework that Fits on a Sticky Note | by Maret Kruve
May 2025
🔗 Designing an Engineering Strategy
🔗 10 Management Principles to Copy from Top 10% Teams
🔗 9 Management Habits Quietly Burning Out Your Best Engineers
🔗 Leadership Tips for Startup Founders
🔗 4 styles of decision-making: A leader’s guide
🔗 Docs Like Code in Very Basic Terms
🔗 The Book Of Secret Knowledge
🔗 In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more
April 2025
🔗 The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
🔗 Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP
🔗 The Rise of the GTM Engineer
🔗 In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers
🔗 A blueprint for modern product development
🔗 Stanford CS109 Probability for Computer Scientists Lecture
March 2025
🔗 7 Common Mistakes in Architecture Diagrams
🔗 Tech’s war on middle management is just getting started
🔗 Unlocking the Power of Hypothesis-Driven Consulting: How AI Makes the MBB Approach Accessible to All
🔗 What Separates a 10x Codebase from an Ordinary One?
🔗 In the Trenches: What it Means to be an Engineering Manager
🔗 Don't Call Yourself a Senior Until You've Worked on a Legacy Project
🔗 There Hasn’t Been Much if Any Reduction in WFH in over Two Years, Despite the Hype about RTO
February 2025
🔗 Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option
🔗 Why are corporations cutting managers?
🔗 Conscious Unbossing: A Shift from Middle Management among Gen-Z
🔗 Cascading OKRs: We can do Better
🔗 Building a GenAI + RAG Micro-SaaS Efficiently
🔗 Top Mistakes Made by IT Architects
🔗 Scientists map the mathematics behind how we create and innovate
🔗 Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
🔗 Red Flags to Watch Out for During Interviews
🔗 225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
🔗 Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
January 2025
🔗 Study: Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams
🔗 Being Human in the Age of AI
🔗 How to Grow Professional Relationships
🔗 Quiet Stories Issue #182 Summary
🔗 The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager
🔗 The End of Front-End Development
🔗 The Slow Death of the Hands-on Engineering Manager
🔗 From 'Great Resignation' to 'Great Detachment': How the U.S. job market has slowed
🔗 Estimating How Much It Costs to Run Greenfield Systems
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