Leadership


Who Manages the Managers?

The hardest part of a senior software engineer's job isn't writing code. It is stopping your manager from passing off a Figma mockup as a product that's almost finished. But in the era of overly polite software development AI tools, used directly by the managers, whose job is it now to stop them?

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What do You Say When You Don't Know What to Say

A friend approaches you and says something unexpected. 'I quit my job'. 'I am going to Madagascar'. 'I've been to Las Vegas last night'. 'I am relocating to Mars'. Stunned, you don't know how to react. But they eagerly expect a reaction. What do you say?

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