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Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings? | Irrational Exuberance
While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also changed my...
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The agentic passive voice. | Irrational Exuberance
At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’s a good...
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Staff Engineer. | Irrational Exuberance
After a bit of a lead up, so deeply excited that the “Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track” book is done!
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What can agents actually do? | Irrational Exuberance
There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior...
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What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? | Irrational Exuberance
Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large...
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