A series of practical leadership essays for first-time engineering managers, covering remote communication, partnering with product managers, and bringing technical priorities into the roadmap. The writing draws on the author's own management experience and offers concrete habits and frameworks.
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Gergely Orosz covers Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders, with reported detail on company practices and incidents. The sampled issues cover Anthropic's custom source control, internal vibe-coding tools at Ramp and Stripe, and the Firebase outage.
A newsletter covering Big Tech and startups from the inside, with original reporting, data gathered from engineering leaders, industry news roundups and deep-dive interviews. Readers get insight into how software companies work, including AI tooling spend, developer infrastructure and industry trends.
Michael Lopp (Rands) writes personal, reflective essays on leadership, writing, and a career in tech. Issues combine anecdotes from his time at companies like Pinterest and Riot Games with lessons on creating, speaking, and managing people.
A CTO writes first-person essays on how agentic AI development changes engineering management, covering work allocation, visibility into parallel agent threads, and factory-style workflows. Readers get original analysis and concrete practices from running a team of about twenty engineers.
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