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Published on 30.03.2026
TLDR: Pat Kua's framework for CTO archetypes — and a companion piece on Engineering Manager archetypes — gives language to something most tech leaders feel intuitively but rarely articulate: two people with the same title can be doing fundamentally different work, optimizing for different things, and succeeding or failing based on how well their archetype matches the organization's actual needs.
Leadership archetypes, perfect teams, and weekly readings 💡
TLDR: When asked to describe his ideal product team — the atomic unit of under ten people actually building things together — Rob Zuber's answer didn't start with skills or processes. It started with a question: what's the fastest way to get the information we need to make the next decision?
Leadership archetypes, perfect teams, and weekly readings 💡
TLDR: Four curated reads from Luca this week: Martin Fowler's primer on Architecture Decision Records (more useful than ever with AI), a viral imaginary report from 2028 on AI's second and third-order effects, a piece on how engineering culture systematically undervalues simplicity, and Rands blending management advice with practical AI experiment notes.