Writing

A collection of essays on engineering leadership, organizational design, and scaling teams. Originally written for LinkedIn; migrated here for a more durable, versioned home. Structured so it can be pushed to a Ghost blog or static site later with minimal changes.

Series

Simple Sabotage — What a WWII field manual on how to sabotage an organization from the inside teaches about running one well.

1. Lessons from Sabotage — individual behaviors: cooperation, motivation, and infrastructure.
2. How Organizations Sabotage Themselves — institutionalized sabotage: process, decision-making, and management dysfunction.

Re:Work Research on Management - An overview of what research shows matters for managers, what it might mean with the rise of AI, and practical things to keep in mind for managers.

1. Research Driven Management - why the research matters and what it studied
2. A Manager's Most Important Work - the people behaviors that move teams
3. Getting Things Done - the execution behaviors behind results
4. The Role of Technical Depth - where domain skill actually fits
5. New Manager Traps - pitfalls on the IC-to-manager jump

Posts

Date	Title	Tags
2026-09-29	New Manager Traps	management, new-managers, career-development, engineering-leadership
2026-09-22	The Role of Technical Depth	management, technical-leadership, engineering-management, decision-making, collaboration
2026-09-15	Getting Things Done	management, productivity, communication, vision, engineering-leadership
2026-09-08	A Manager's Most Important Work	management, coaching, psychological-safety, project-oxygen, engineering-leadership
2026-09-01	Research Driven Management	management, engineering-leadership, project-oxygen, google, ai
2026-08-25	When Candidates Ask About Tech Debt	recruiting, engineering-leadership, technical-debt, hiring, tech-recruiting
2026-08-18	Applying the Hiring Funnel	hiring, recruiting, engineering-management, leadership
2026-07-29	Empathy and the Hiring Process	hiring, recruiting, engineering-management, leadership, ai
2026-04-07	Dunbar Numbers and the Shape of Scaling Organizations	scaling, organizational-design, dunbar-number, leadership, ai
2025-03-18	How Organizations Sabotage Themselves	leadership, organizational-design, management
2025-03-11	Lessons from Sabotage	leadership, organizational-design, management

Structure

/posts/       individual articles, Markdown with YAML frontmatter
/style.css    optional lightweight stylesheet for static-site rendering
README.md     this index

Each post's frontmatter (title, date, tags, author) is deliberately compatible with common static-site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy) and with Ghost's Markdown/import tooling, so the posts should port with minimal rework whenever they move off GitHub.

Adding a new post

1. Drop a .md file into /posts/ named YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md.
2. Add frontmatter: title, date, tags, author.
3. Add a row to the table above (and to a series list, if it belongs to one).