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Austen McDonald, former Meta hiring committee chair, shares why behavioral interviews matter more than ever and how to approach them as both candidate and interviewer.
20.02.2026
PwC invested $1 billion in AI training across 75,000 employees, achieved 95% voluntary adoption, then laid off 1,500 people. This is what the AI upskilling paradox looks like in practice.
19.02.2026
How Kilo flips traditional engineering by having each engineer own a growth metric, manage AI agents, and drive their product area end-to-end.
01.02.2026
A practical technique for engineering leaders to surface friction points by interviewing engineers and mapping insights to the development pipeline.
28.01.2026
A deep dive into how a 100-person distributed team across 40 countries built one of the world's most beloved productivity tools while staying bootstrapped and profitable.
23.01.2026
A controlled study across Ivy League schools reveals why some AI implementations boost learning while others tank it, and what this means for how businesses should adopt AI tools.
22.01.2026
Why AI initiatives fail when enthusiasm from the top doesn't translate to clear budgets, approved tools, and real ownership — and the diagnostic questions that reveal alignment problems before it's too late.
21.01.2026
A personal reflection on the guilt and discomfort that accompanies medical leave, and why believing you're allowed to rest without consequences is harder than knowing rest matters.
20.01.2026
The chat era is ending - AI tools now expect delegation, not conversation. But without understanding your team's behavioral patterns and business context, these AI coworkers will fail.
19.01.2026
A sequential AI diagnostic that surfaces the constraints you can't see because you're inside them - from identifying your real customer to finding your 90-day priority
19.01.2026
Kent Beck explains how individual metric optimization creates products that slowly turn hostile to users—one 'engagement optimization' at a time.
15.01.2026
The engineers thriving with AI focus on making ideas real, not on the intellectual challenge of coding itself. Reframe your identity broadly enough that AI becomes a tool, not an existential threat.
14.01.2026
NN/g argues humanizing AI is a trap that reduces utility, while most 'empowered' product teams are actually feature factories fighting coordination wars.
14.01.2026
Leverage AI to systematically evaluate employee performance and potential, making informed decisions about promotions, development, and team composition.
23.12.2025
A look at the benefits of an 'everything as code' approach, how to prioritize tech debt by focusing on code 'hotspots', and a strategy for using notifications to improve team accountability.
22.12.2025
This week, we explore creating value flywheels, improving meeting dynamics with Troika Consulting, and mitigating the ever-present 'bus factor' risk in software teams.
15.12.2025
A practical guide to leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to draft robust Statements of Work (SOWs), preventing scope creep by defining clear requirements and explicitly stating what's not included.
05.12.2025
Understand the three phases of product development—exploration, expansion, and extraction—and how strategic management of technical bottlenecks is crucial for sustained, profitable growth.
04.12.2025
AI amplifies the ROI of good engineering practices while transforming how teams communicate and make decisions, requiring systematic approaches to combat cognitive biases in technical decision-making.
24.11.2025
Strategic insights on progressing from mid-level to principal engineer at companies like Amazon, including promotion tactics and management transitions.
18.11.2025