#management

A while back, I came across a hiring philosophy from Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, that stopped me cold.

When the Ask Feels Awkward, It’s Already Too Late: There’s a thing someone on your team is supposed to own. But you hesitate to bring it up.

Stop making excuses for passive-aggressive managers. They are not misunderstood introverts or conflict-averse leaders. They are parasites destroying your team from within.

Annual performance reviews are a failure theater that helps no one. Here's what actually works.

Most AI products are designed to fail. Not because the technology is bad, but because product teams are building for the wrong expectations entirely.

"This isn't what we asked for." Five words that strike dread into every engineering team. Five words that signal a fundamental breakdown in the engineering-p...