A practical newsletter for engineering leaders covering management craft, from handling risky large-scale changes to staying close to the code and the user. Issues mix candid anecdotes from a real team with arguments about how the EM role is shifting toward hands-on technical involvement.
Website: https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com
The Pragmatic Engineer is a newsletter by Gergely Orosz covering Big Tech and startup engineering from the inside, with deep dives into AI tooling spend, developer infrastructure, and industry events. Readers get practical, data-backed analysis useful for software, AI, and engineering leaders.
A weekly newsletter from an engineering manager offering one practical idea per issue on the realities of leading engineers, including performance, team dynamics, and career reflections. Issues mix personal essays, curated resource lists, and sponsor pitches for a developer tool.
A newsletter of long-form articles on the soft skills of working in tech, such as collaboration, communication and overcoming procrastination, drawing on the author's experience at Google, Uber and startups. Each issue names a common workplace problem and offers practical ways to handle it, with some sections reserved for paid subscribers.
A staff engineer shares practical, behaviour-focused advice for tech leads, such as improving debugging skills, deciding whether to move into management, and spotting silent disagreements in teams. Each issue offers concrete steps and checklists drawn from the author's experience.
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